Intent to Package xwatch, xplot and xcolmix
Pending approval of my application for maintainer-ship, I intent to package
the following for contrib (none will make it into slink):
Package: xwatch
Depends: libc6, libforms0.86, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
Suggests: syslogd
Description: Xwatch monitors logfiles and displays in an X window.
The displayed logs are colour-coded according to severity. Basically, you
get to see what's going on _during_ say a break-in, instead of having to
check the logfiles after the damage is done. Of course, you need to have
the syslog daemons configured right, so that the logfiles are
created. Xwatch reads options from its commandline as well as from a
app-defaults resource file (example supplied). XWatch requires the XForms
libraries to run.
Package: xplot
Also depends on libforms0.86
Description: XPlot is a simple x-y data plotter for X.
It's designed to show one- or twodimensional datasets, either from a file
or from a pipe. Sliders on the control panel let you change displayed
axes limits and zoom in on any portion of the plot. This is a terrific
way to quickly explore x-y datasets.
Package: xcolmix
Also depends on libforms0.86
Description: Color mixer to quickly to determine RGB values of a colour.
You can select colours for both foreground or background using sliders to
gradually select RGB values. Furthermore, xcolmix lets you retrieve RGB
values from the X system's database of `predefined' colors.
I've packaged xwatch already, save to fixing the man page a little for
Debian. The others will be very quick to do.
All of these packages were written by Karel Kubat, a very productive coder
(author of yodl) who unfortunately doesn't code for Linux anymore. I hope
that Debian exposure of the packages will allow them to survive, and that
perhaps a free toolkit coder will decide to port them (to fltk for
example).
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