[Konsole-devel] Cleaning up of kwrited hack

[Achim Bohnet]

On Friday 01 March 2002 03:05, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> The following patch gets rid of the ugly cat-hack in kwrited.
> 
> Please review very carefully, I have no idea how kwrited is supposed to work 
> and it doesn't seem to do much at all here actually (with or without this 

Same here. Without utempter installed utmp is not updated.  Therefore shutdown
wall write etc,  don't know about kwrite listening on a pty :(

FWIW it works as before with our patch (Debian Linix Woody).  But Debian
does not like utempter so I can't test full functionality.

Oswald, looks like kdm does update ?tmp file(s).   Time/interest to cut and paste
some code from kdm to kwrited?

> patch) but when I echo text into the pty it appears on the screen, so at 
> least my changes seem to work.

An use full addition, it's really an bug fix, would be to ensure that after
each insert the kwrited window is on the current desktop.

	echo shutdown tommorrow > /dev/pts/x	# win pops up on current desktop
	# user switches the desktop and tomorrow
	echo shutdwon in 10 ...		# User miss the message
	echo "		9		# "
	echo "		8

surprise, surprise he/she is thrown out.

Achim
	
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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