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Re: xbiff or equivalent for SL4?
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Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:12:17 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:12:34PM +0000, Eva Myers wrote:
> 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.

I was using xbuffy for several years and recently switched to
gnubiff. The latter seems quite mature, but there is no package for
SL4 (yet). I guess you could simply pull in the src.rpm and rebuild
it.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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