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On Monday 02 July 2007 21:20, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host |
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> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should |
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> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. |
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> The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming |
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> phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an |
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> xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not |
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> that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems. |
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> |
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> There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete |
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> (<http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Winpopup>), which |
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> makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or |
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> smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by |
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> default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic |
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> ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to |
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> report? |
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> Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a |
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> few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I |
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> assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar |
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> first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately. |
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> Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone |
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> knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting |
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> for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an |
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> xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost. |
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Will this do? |
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http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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