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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

xfce4-terminal: wall & write not showing

sending messages with wall & write works fine on tty1 but nothing is shown on x4-terminal.

is there a setting to tweak?

is this related: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12953

Tnx

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,052

Re: xfce4-terminal: wall & write not showing

Yes it is. xfce4-terminal, like gnome-terminal uses vte3, and vte3 no longer supports utmp - which wall/write use. You can get more info about this issue starting here and the links included there.

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