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Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard



... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail?

-Paul

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote:

> There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP
> stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if
> you were logged off.  You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit
> at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in... 
> 
> 
> I dont know if this helps, but if you're interested i can get it off my
> linux box before i do a reinstall of it.. but let me know before friday.
> 
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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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