1M$ question about broadcast messages

**heindsight** · February 11th, 2009

Ok, version 1.0 is now available from my Launchpad PPA. Binary packages are available for Hardy and Intrepid.

To install it add a line like:

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/heindsight/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

to /etc/apt/sources.list (of course if you're running Intrepid you should change the hardy above to intrepid)

Next, (if you trust me and want avoid getting warnings about downloading from an untrusted source), do

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sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com  20E24BBCE26A342F499DB38FF75FF3CAFCA8EEF0

Now you can install writed using

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sudo apt-get install writed

Now, you can run writed by just using the command:

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writed

It will immediately go into the background, so you can use the command

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to make sure it is actually running. You should see a line similar to:

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heindsig pts/4    :0.0             22:18   23:13m  0.14s  0.14s writed

Now you should be able to send yourself messages using write or wall, for example according to the w output above, I have writed running on /dev/pts/4 so I can send myself a message using

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write heindsight pts/4

**heindsight** · February 14th, 2009

I should mention, for now the original source code for this release can be downloaded from:
https://launchpad.net/~heindsight/+a....0.orig.tar.gz

I'll be putting the latest source up somewhere soon. Will post an update when I do. I hope to bring out an improved version soon with features such as logging and a config file allowing you to customize things like where on your screen messages appear and how long they stay on screen.

**sblanzio** · February 15th, 2009

thank you so very much! i will let you know as soon as i try that! ^^

**crc294** · February 17th, 2009

heind,

It works great. Thanks for the effort. No problems installing or running here

**sblanzio** · June 10th, 2009

hey! your software is great, but unfortunately the notification deamon is changed in gnome since 9.04 and now it doesn't seem to work anymore.
Do you have any idea / plan on how to make it compatible with the new one?

Of course you already did a great job and it is enough if you just give me a hint

Thank you very much

**heindsight** · June 11th, 2009

Originally Posted by sblanzio

hey! your software is great, but unfortunately the notification deamon is changed in gnome since 9.04 and now it doesn't seem to work anymore.
Do you have any idea / plan on how to make it compatible with the new one?

Of course you already did a great job and it is enough if you just give me a hint

Thank you very much

Hi, thank you for pointing this out. I'm still using 8.04 and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. As soon as I have a chance, I'll get 9.04 running on a VM and see if I can fix it.

I'll try to get to it in the next week. I started a new job recently, so unfortunately I don't have nearly as much time as before to work on this. I would appreciate it if you could email me a more detailed description of the problem...

If you want to try to fix it yourself, I'd suggest looking at the source (especialy src/notifier.[ch] - that's where you'll find the code responsible for setting up and closing down the DBUS connection and creating and sending messages to the notification daemon) and in the changelogs for the notification daemon to see what changes have been made that may have broken things.