Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your
mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> ... 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:
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> > 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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