What you'll need to do then, to get something like that, it write a small perl script that executes fetchmail every X number of seconds/minutes, and on startup, initialize a transparent terminal, Eterm for example, and set that script as the executing program.. i.e., this is what I use to watch my syslog:
Eterm -W -O -g 80x10+785+0 --borderless --scrollbar=0 --menubar=0 -e tail -f /var/log/syslog
so you could modify it to do, say..
Eterm -W -O -g 80x10+785+0 --borderless --scrollbar=0 --menubar=0 -e /some/path/foo.pl
Of course, you'll need to modify the geometry information and coordinates to suit your own needs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:hallstevenson@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:34 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Brad Burns
> Subject: Re: Getting feedbak from fetchmail
>
>
> >> How can I get some feedback of what fetchmail
> >> is doing?
>
> > If you're running it manually, add a -v flag, and it'll
> > print out everything it does.
>
>
> Something like what's shown in the lower, right-hand corner is what I
> would like (sorry, it's a large screenshot):
>
> http://www.us.rasterman.com/screenshots/s7.jpg
>
> or an even better one (I think Mandrake told me one time that
> this is a
> perl script though), here:
>
> http://mandrake.net/mandrake-shots/sept9.1999.jpg in the lower left
> corner.
>
>
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