Peep Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 (edited) What can yo do via ssh to get someone's attention while they're using another machine? The best I've come up with is SSH'ing to the other machine and doing an "eject" and then an "eject -t" to put the cdrom drawer in and out... but there's probably something funnier that can be done. X apps all open on the remote machine, so I'm at a loss for other ways to get a girlfriend's attention when she's in the other room playing frozen bubble or lbreakout. (killing the process works, but is unpopular) Any ideas? Edited September 12, 2004 by Peep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 (edited) X apps don't start on the local machine if you ssh to the remote machine like this: ssh -x remote-machine export $DISPLAY=:0.0 (if that's the display she's on) Here's a good one: Xdialog --no-close --no-cancel --ok-label Yes --msgbox Do\ You\ REALLY\ Want\ to\ Erase\ the\ Entire\ Harddrive??? 5 48 Edited September 12, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 (edited) Or even better, copy the attached file to the directory on her machine that you are going to be running the command in and then run this command: Xdialog --no-close --beep-after --title "Ready to Format Harddrive" --ok-label No --infobox "Do You REALLY Want to Erase the Entire Harddrive???" 5 48 4750 && Xdialog --title "Formatting Harddrive" --gauge "Formatting Harddrive" 5 48 10 < file.txt file.txt Edited September 12, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 That is so wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Don't know what those things mean but coming from Steve they sure as heck sound wrong :P -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echylo Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 mplayer? and play a song? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 I typed "reboot" while my roomie was typing. }:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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