Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 14, 2004 11:31 PM
Write, Talk and Wall are great programs but, it wasn't made completely clear that they are terminal programs. It is entirely likely in today's GUI world that a user may not have a terminal open. In this case the users won't get the message.
Most distributions today run KDE or Gnome. Write, wall and talk will not work if the user does not have a terminal open. Additionally, most distributions have write permission turned off by default so, even if they did have a terminal open the users still wouldn't get a message.
KDE has a daemon called kwrited that usually runs by default. This daemon allows write messages to pop-up in the graphical environment, provided that write permission is enabled, which is typically not the default because it can mess up certain applications.
To use write and kwrited in most KDE environments, it is also necessary to use the mesg command to enable write permission.
In a Gnome environment, I am not aware of an available graphical write client like kwrited. There may be such a beast but, it certainly isn't enabled by default. If you have both KDE and Gnome on the system, you could configure it such that Gnome runs kwrited on startup.
Don't forget that for any of this to work mesg must enable write permission and this is not the default for many distributions. You will need to put "mesg y" in the appropriate startup file for your gui if you want any of this to work.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 14, 2004 11:31 PMMost distributions today run KDE or Gnome. Write, wall and talk will not work if the user does not have a terminal open. Additionally, most distributions have write permission turned off by default so, even if they did have a terminal open the users still wouldn't get a message.
KDE has a daemon called kwrited that usually runs by default. This daemon allows write messages to pop-up in the graphical environment, provided that write permission is enabled, which is typically not the default because it can mess up certain applications.
To use write and kwrited in most KDE environments, it is also necessary to use the mesg command to enable write permission.
In a Gnome environment, I am not aware of an available graphical write client like kwrited. There may be such a beast but, it certainly isn't enabled by default. If you have both KDE and Gnome on the system, you could configure it such that Gnome runs kwrited on startup.
Don't forget that for any of this to work mesg must enable write permission and this is not the default for many distributions. You will need to put "mesg y" in the appropriate startup file for your gui if you want any of this to work.
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