[395] in athena10
Re: Desupporting the Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Aug 6 23:51:21 2008
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> Aside from the standard startup messages you see in the console on
> login, it's currently used to get important syslogs to you, for example,
> the ones that pop up when someone logs in as root under you. I'm
> unhappy about the idea of that going away without a replacement. Do
> we have an alternative way to support that feature?
Just to throw the idea out there, there's libnotify, and notify-send in
the libnotify-bin package, that places standard GNOME alerts in the corner
of the screen. One idea would be collecting user startup messages and
displaying them in a single message, and popping up syslogs / root login
notifications as they arrive.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
