----- Original message from Eva Myers on Tue Jan 16 12:32:27 2007 -----
> 
> > Is a program or GNOME applet with similar functionality to xbiff
> > available for SL4?  Searching the list archives confirmed that xbiff
> > itself is no longer available, but didn't say what people tend to use
> > instead.  I and many of my users find it very useful to be beeped when
> > new email arrives.
> > Eva.
> 
> Someone has helpfully sent me the binary for xbiff, but it would be
> nice to know the best way of making sure that it is automatically run
> whenever users log in via xdm.
> Eva.
> 
       
       Hello,

       I have a line :

       xbiff -geometry 50x50-0+139 &

   `   in my $HOME/.xinitrc (or $HOME/.xsession) file

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                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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