[Techtalk] communication on own network

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Michelle,

Just backtracking this New Year's day on some unresolved issues. With
some determined hunting I found a package called LinPopUp which  is
described thus:

> LinPopUp is a Xwindow graphical port of Winpopup, running over Samba.
> It permits to communicate with a windows computer that runs Winpopup,
> sending or receiving message. ( It also provides an alternative way
> to communicate between Linux computers that run Samba ).

http://www.littleigloo.org/software_002.php3

Thus certainly looks as if it would do what I want - send a message to
pop up on a colleagues work station. But ...

... to date I have not been able to install this. There is no package
available for (my version of) ubuntu, and the Debian package
will not install

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libglib1.2ldbl (>= 1.2.10-18)

Not wishing to break other things that are going well I have left
it there pending acquisition of skills and knowledge.

Just a 'heads up' post and I'll follow up if at some date I get some
success.

All the best to all of you for 2011.
Anne

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:08:45 +0100
Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:

> Hello Anne Wainwright,
> 
> Am 2010-12-16 16:38:54, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to be able to send someone on our network a small pop-up
> > message and get a reply if needed. Got to work both ways, must pop
> > up on whatever terminal the person is in or they can ignore it at
> > will.
> > 
> > I don't want to be dependent on an outside server, this is just for
> > in-house so could be small thingy on our own server.
> 
> Hmmm, I think there is only "talk" and "talkd" and of course "xtalk"
> 
> However, "talkd" must run on any machines which should receive
> messages.
> 
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>     Michelle Konzack
>