Re: [PLUG] shutdown/terminal question

[Geoff Rivell <grivell@comcast.net>]

On Sunday 09 September 2007, Brent Saner wrote:
> hey everyone. quick question. i asked this on ##linux (freenode), but
> nobody answered.
>
> if you do a shutdown -r +5 'Going down for reboot' ..... does that display
> the message in some sort of dialog box in desktop managers i.e. kde, gnome?
> or only print it to terminals/terminal emu's?

Should only print it to terminal.

You can use kdialog.  You would have to make sure the display is set to :1 (or 
whatever port X is running on.  And probably copy $HOME/.Xauthority to /root


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