🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug26.194128.16156@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
	steve@writer.yorku.ca (Steve Azmier) writes:
>shutdown -p will only show up in the Console or Terminal (if it's
>                                                        Can root open
>the Public Window Server on a station just long enough to broadcast a
>message then close it (or leave it in the state it was in)?

[This answer for 2.x systems; not verified for 3.0]

You know the "Printing" panel that pops up when your NeXT Laser
Printer runs out of paper?  That's done by a handy little program
called /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform.  It turns out that Inform can
display any message of your choosing:

	/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform "I hate recycled toner cartridges"

You can also change the text displayed on the "OK" button:

	/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform -b1 Extinguish "Fuser assembly on fire"

What it doesn't let you do is change the printer icon or the
"Printing" title, which is too bad, since NeXTSTEP could use
a general-purpose notification service.  (Hmm... you can probably
replace the "PrinterAlert" nib section with whatever you want.)

Oh yeah: if run by root, Inform will work even without Public
Window Server enabled.

					-=EPS=-