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From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: The equivilent of /etc/wall in the X environment
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.222351.13064@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 90 22:23:51 GMT
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I made some simple changes to xterm that beep and shove "***" in front of
the icon name if output occurs in an iconified or obscured window.
(Remember how x10 xterm used to do a similar thing?)

We couple this with another simple xterm enhancement that opens and reads
/dev/xcons on DEC workstations (when -C is used), so that the login
window truly becomes a console window.  This works well for noticing
messages and /etc/wall and other things happening in the login window.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
 [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada
