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JSJB

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Registered: 2019-04-06

Posts: 3

xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

During a recent power failure I saw the xfce4-terminals did not receive the wall broadcasts from the UPS.

I read this may be related to not being able to write utmp entry. However, xterm do receive wall broadcasts and both xfce4-terminal and xterm use libutempter:

~ => ldd `which xfce4-terminal` | grep utemp
	libutempter.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libutempter.so.0 (0xb6e1a000)
~ => ldd `which xterm` | grep utemp
	libutempter.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libutempter.so.0 (0xb7a6e000)

Is there a setting in xfce4-terminal that controls receiving broadcast messages? I haven't been able to find one.

My system:
i386 debian linux tracking testing distribution

~ => apt-cache policy xfce4-terminal
xfce4-terminal:
  Installed: 0.8.7.4-2
  Candidate: 0.8.7.4-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.7.4-2 500
        500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian testing/main i386 Packages
        500 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20190214 testing/main i386 Packages

thanks!

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

Hello and welcome.

This indicates that vte3 no longer supports utmp/wtmp.

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JSJB

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Registered: 2019-04-06

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Re: xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

So is there no way to receive broadcasts in an xfce4-terminal anymore?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

That's what I understand from that bug report. And it's not xfce4-terminal, it's vte3. Try gnome-terminal - it uses vte3 as well to confirm.

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alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

Perhaps this is relevant:

Broadcast messages don't appear on gnome-terminal, but appear on xterm.

JSJB

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Registered: 2019-04-06

Posts: 3

Re: xfce4-terminal does not receive broadcast messages from wall

Thanks for the replies, broadcast messages are not received on gnome-terminal either (version 3.30.2, using VTE 0.54.2)