[Galago-devel] Passing a notification from root to user with notification-daemon

[Christian Hammond]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:46:14PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may not be the right place for this, but here goes:
> 
> I am developing an excruciatingly small program that passes
> notifications of possible hard disk issues from smartd to the
> user. It looks like the notification-daemon might be the right thing to
> use.
> 
> But I fail to find in the documentation how to pass a notification from
> the root to the user context? Is there a "Right Way"? Could someone
> point me in the right direction? 

Unfortunately, there is no "right way." You would have to talk to the
user's session bus (or all users' session busses). That's more of a
general D-BUS issue rather than a notification issue. Now, we could
extend the notification framework to also listen on the system bus,
but that's tricky and requires a lot more thought. For the time-being,
I don't have a good answer for you, except find a way to listen to the
notifications (per-user) and then emit a notification. So, a proxy of
sorts for this specific case.

Christian
 
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