On 2/2/2010 3:03 PM, Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi > > Not sure but I seem to remember the old write command it could to the > trick. > write or wall will work with open terminal windows - but shutdown offers the option to send such a message itself with a grace period before the actual shutdown. It gets trickier if you want to pop up a new window on all open window managers. -- Les Mikesell lesmiksell at gmail.com