[gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host 
in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should 
open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.

The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming 
phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an 
xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not 
that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems.

There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete 
(<http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Winpopup>), which 
makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or 
smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by 
default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic 
ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to 
report?
Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a 
few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I 
assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar 
first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately. 

Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone 
knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting 
for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an 
xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.

	Alex
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