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WALL-BROADCASTER(8) wall-broadcaster WALL-BROADCASTER(8)

NAME

wall-broadcaster - read wall and write messages and broadcast them via D-BUS

SYNOPSIS

wall-broadcaster [-d] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

The wall-broadcaster utility will open a PTY and registers itself as new session with this TTY on systemd-logind. It will watch for messages on that TTY and tries to parse them. Messages send by wall or write will be splitted in a summary and body and cleaned up, else the message will be forwarded as "body". The information are then send via the org.opensuse.WallBroadcast dbus interface.

Additonal the tool will listen on a varlink interface for messages, which could be send with wall-bcst-send(1).

D-BUS PROTOCOL

The notification components are very similar to the Freedesktop Notifications Specification to make it easy to convert it to the desktop notification system.

•Path: /org/opensuse/WallBroadcast

•Interface: org.opensuse.WallBroadcast

Application Name

Type: String(s). Optional name of the application sending the notification.

Summary

Type: String(s). Single line overview.

Body

Type: String(s). Multi-line text.

Urgency

Type: Byte(y). 0=Low, 1=Normal, 2=Critical.

Sender

Type: String(s). Optional name of the sender.

OPTIONS

-d, --debug

Print debug messages

-h, --help

Give this help list

-v, --version

Print program version

SEE ALSO

wall-bcst-gateway(1), wall-bcst-send(1), wall-bcst-watcher(1), wall-bcst-watcher-gtk4(1)

05/22/2026 wall-broadcaster 0.4.0