Bug 243845

Summary:	konsole : wall message should not appear for reomote (ssh) connections
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.4.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Toralf Förster 2010-07-07 13:28:20 UTC

Version:           2.4.5 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

It is irritating if a local "wall foo" command puts its content to those konsole windows too where a user is ssh'ed into a remote system.


Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
a wall output should appear only within local konsoles.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.34.1
Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2010-07-07 16:21:01 UTC

> It is irritating if a local "wall foo" command puts its content to
> those konsole windows too where a user is ssh'ed into a remote system.

Unless I've missed something, this is the expected behavior.  If you want to restrict 'wall' messages from reaching certain terminals I think you can use the 'mesg' command.

Bear in mind that Konsole, for the most part, does not understand what is going on in the terminal.  It just sends input to it and draws the response.  There is no real concept of 'local' or 'remote' Konsole windows. You just happened to be running a program called 'ssh' in one of them.

Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2010-07-07 17:15:02 UTC

Well, you're right, it is the expected behavior (although for a very short moment I feared to halt the wrong remote system :-| )