pop-up notices for all gnome users

[Paul Keyes]

Is there a way to determine who is loggeg in (maybe
with 'who' command) and sitting at the terminal, so
that I can run the script as them?

--Paul
--- Oliver Leitner <shadow333 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> easy answer:
> 
> try to run your script as non root user, eg try sudo
> to run it.
> 
> Greetings
> Oliver
> 
> Paul Keyes wrote:
> 
> | Thanks.  This is helpful.  I have a followup
> question: I want to
> | schedule a zenity command via cron as root to have
> a window appear
> | every 30 minutes for any user who may be loggeg
> in.  When trying
> | this I get the cron error:
> |
> | X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env:
> <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env:
> | <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env:
> | <USER=root>
> |
> |
> | (zenity:6093): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
> display:
> |
> |
> | Do you know how to solve this? Thanks!
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | --- Esteban Xandri <esteban.xandri at speedy.com.ar>
> wrote:
> |
> |> 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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