writed

writed is a tiny daemon that displays messages received via the traditional write/wall mechanism as desktop notifications via libnotify.

building

You'll need libnotify, pkg-config, and a C compiler.

gcc -std=c89 -lutil `pkg-config --cflags --libs libnotify` main.c -o writed

writed must be setgid utmp. write and wall only send messages to pts devices registered in /var/run/utmp, and without setgid utmp, writed will silently fail to receive messages.

usage

Just run writed while you have a desktop notification daemon running.