X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=783e59abc0684f2d84886e03d7bfba1e0c04254d;hb=ec6ca6047db22414a4daf22fa65c3dcd43ab59f2;hp=5b30220060c95a9dd48f9dacd7dc43b041eec503;hpb=683c5a9569244df8141bb36a6c9627e3b7c4e8e5;p=wall-notify%2Fwall-notify.git diff --git a/README b/README index 5b30220..783e59a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ wall messages are either directly created by root with the `wall` command or sent by other programs like `reboot`, `shutdown` or other processes like NFS to warn users when the NFS server terminates. +Optionally X11 can be used to automatically terminate wall-notify when the +current X11 session terminates, i.e. when the user logs out. See below. + wall-notify is licensed under GPL 3 (or later). @@ -20,6 +23,8 @@ DEPENDENCIES - C89 compiler - libutempter or utmpx.h (utmpx.x requires a setgid utmp binary) +- optional: X11 headers and library, necessary for X11 support + INSTALLATION ------------ @@ -52,9 +57,19 @@ in the message. For a simple wrapper script which removes those, see The shell is not used when running the program. +If X11 support is compiled in then the '-X' option can be used to terminate +wall-notify automatically when the X session quits. This is useful when +wall-notify is started in `.xinitrc` and should quit when the X session ends, +i.e the user logs out: + + ./src/wall-notify -X cat + + BUGS ---- +Doesn't work on OpenBSD which has no support for utmpx.h. + If you find any bugs not mentioned in this document please report them to with wall-notify in the subject.