Axel Thimm wrote: > 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. > That would be sweet Axel. Dag has a spec, if you need it or we could just point yum there if you don't want to duplicate it? gnubiff - (replaces gbiff/gbiff2) GUI gnome panel mail notification utility - RPMs@RPMForge http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ http://dag.wieers.com/packages/gnubiff/ http://dag.wieers.com/packages/gnubiff/gnubiff.spec http://dries.ulyssis.org/apt/packages/gnubiff/info.html http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/gnubiff/ I was also curious about the mail-notification tool in Extras and how it could be obtained or built for SL? Mail Notification - appears to be the current Gnome/Kde/Xfce FreeDesktop.org tool of choice and is located in the 'extras' repository (not sure where that lives on SL?)... http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3430795/com/mail-notification-3.0-7.fc6.i386.rpm.html http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific4/docs/softwaremgmt.shtml http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras Some of this crosses RPM repo boundaries, but recommending a good mailcheck tool for SL seems worthy. -Art@JAX -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead
