Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!ziegast From: ziegast@umd5.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Looking for a program like xtalk... Message-ID: <5370@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 02:42:01 GMT References: <58273@aerospace.AERO.ORG> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Lines: 25 My last article posed an answer to xhostless xtalk. It probably could be modified to run directly with the talk daemon so that one can talk while the other xtalks, but that is really best left to the following: % xterm -T "XTalk `whoami`" -display-e talk `whoami` & Message from Talk_Daemon@umd5.umd.edu at 22:30 ... talk: connection requested by ziegast@umd5.umd.edu. talk: respond with: talk ziegast@umd5.umd.edu % talk `whoami` What this does is does is pop up an xterm on the remote user's display that will execute a talk to yourself. So in that window that other person will be talking to you through your own talk. An added -geom option won't grab their mouse. Exiting talk will also exit xterm and therefore get rid of the window. I have done this many times to talk to people on Sun's who have a snoddy, stuck up talk daemon that says [Looking for invitation on caller's machine] and hangs forever (i.e. "Don't call us, we'll call you"). Just popping it on their display avoids connection protocol. Of course xhost + to your machine is a prerequisite. Eric Z