pop-up notices for all gnome users

Esteban Xandri esteban.xandri at speedy.com.ar
Mon Aug 22 23:36:51 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:55 -0400, Paul Keyes wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to create a pop-up window notice to all users
> when they log in to their gnome desktop. 

man zenity


>  I'm using
> Fedora Core 3 (kernel: 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma). 
> Does gnome have a way to do this already?
> I couldn't find one so I created my own little app
> (c++, gtk) to display the info in a  window and I run
> it for all users by adding an appropriate entry to
> /usr/share/gnome/default.session
> This almost works, but for some reason the gnome
> startup display stays open and blocks my window.  If I
> click on the "stuck" gnome startup display it
> dissapears and I can see my window.  I think this
> little bug will confuse users.  Does anyone know a way
> around this/why the startup window gets "stuck"?
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> --Paul
> 
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