<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I've got g(x)message installed.<br><br>I can send myself a pop up message using the terminal on the same machine.<br>I can send myself a pop up message using the terminal from another machine while SSHing into the machine running the GUI.<br>
However I cannot send another user on the machine a popup message on their display.<br><br>chris@outlaw:~$ gmessage -display :0 -center "Test" &<br>[1] 23973<br>chris@outlaw:~$<br>chris@outlaw:~$ gmessage -display :1 -center "Test" &<br>
[2] 23974<br>chris@outlaw:~$ No protocol specified<br>gxmessage: unable to initialize GTK<br><br>[2]+ Exit 1 gmessage -display :1 -center "Test"<br><br><br>I get a no protocol specified error message and a unable to initialize GTK messsage as well. <br>
<br>I am SSHing into the box from a remote location.<br><br><br><br>USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT<br>chris tty7 :0 Fri17 17:27m 55:35 0.99s gnome-session<br>
chris pts/0 68.66.64.225 10:53 0.00s 0.71s 0.01s w<br>kristen tty8 :1 08:01 17:27m 15:59 0.29s gnome-session<br><br><br>Thoughts on how to fix it?<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 19:45, chris rheinherren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.rheinherren@gmail.com">c.rheinherren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">awesome.<br>this all has helped out.<br>thanks.<br></font></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:08, Eric Junker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@eric.nu" target="_blank">eric@eric.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On 1/28/2011 7:48 AM, chris rheinherren wrote:<br>
> Let me rephrase my question.<br>
><br>
> The other user, who would be using a GUI interface, GNOME to be<br>
> specific. Does not need to reply to the message. They just need to see<br>
> it. Like a popup message.<br>
<br>
</div>This article, especially the comments have several suggestions.<br>
<a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/407" target="_blank">http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/407</a> They suggest gmessage,<br>
xmessage, kdialog, zenity, osd_cat or notify-send which is bundled with<br>
libnotify-bin.<br>
<br>
If you need to send a notification across the LAN something like<br>
smbclient -M might work or LinPopUp <a href="http://linpopup2.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://linpopup2.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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Eric<br>
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