Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
You might want to try this instead:
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
it's a little lcd display going for about $70 which will show you all
kinds of system information, including whether you have mail, etc.
-thomas
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Miller <paul@3dillusion.com>
> To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
>
>
> Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives
> (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the
> first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five
> minutes or so...
>
> I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but
> it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was
> executed -- ie, "sleep 3; bl -c console" doesn't work when I switch to
> another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X...
>
> Anyone else tried this?
>
> -Paul
>
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