who and write failing

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2012-06-16 at 16:04 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to xfce and xubuntu, though I've been in ubuntu for more
> than a year and a half and I'm a CentOS and Unix veteran for decades.
> 
> I moved to Xubuntu because I cannot stand the Unity, GNOME 3 or GNOME
> Classis gdms - they have too little flexibility for me and xfce has
> exactly what I need with minimal hassle.
> 
> When I was using Ubuntu 10.10, I had a shell script to produce a
> message of the day for me that I kicked off with my crontab so the
> message would be up on my primary terminal window when I got up.  The
> script would look in a 'who' output to find the first pts terminal I
> was logged in on and send a message there.
> 
> Two problems have arisen since I moved to Xubuntu 12.04 (today):
> 
> 1) 'who' displays nothing at all.  With 'who -a', I get this:
> 
> $ who -a
>            system boot  2012-06-16 12:57
>            run-level 2  2012-06-16 12:57
> LOGIN      tty4         2012-06-16 12:57              1081 id=4
> LOGIN      tty5         2012-06-16 12:57              1087 id=5
> LOGIN      tty2         2012-06-16 12:57              1094 id=2
> LOGIN      tty3         2012-06-16 12:57              1095 id=3
> LOGIN      tty6         2012-06-16 12:57              1097 id=6
> LOGIN      tty1         2012-06-16 12:57              1317 id=1
> 
> This is not helpful as you might guess.
> 
> 2) Worse, write does not seem to work at all.  If I write to myself, I
> get a message that I'm not logged in.
> 
> What am I missing?

Looks like https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/870297
> 
> MR ZenWiz
> 
> PS: Is there a way to turn the clock sideways so it displays
> vertically in a vertical panel?

Change the panel mode (you can switch between “vertical” and “deskbar”)

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Yves-Alexis
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