This one time, at band camp, Gerald Livingston said: > Actually, I'm using Gnome. But I like to have and use my entire screen. > My panels are set to autohide with a 1 pixel height as all that remains > showing.When I maximize an app it fills the entire screen. xsetroot to > change the background would work only while I was in a gnometerm because > I use a transparent BG there. > > What I am searching for is a way for my girlfriend to let me know she > has arrived home from work without having to telephone me. It is a toll > call for her to call me, but not a toll call for me to call her. I may > go for hours without actually reading my email so that is rather > useless. and I do not like to leave gAIM or EveryBuddy active. She is > the only person I chat online with so I don't want them using rescources > or popping up in an annoying fashion when others choose to send an IM > that I am not interested in responding to. > > I would like to set up a couple of programs that will pop up a window on > my current Sawfish workspace over the top of anything else I happen to > be viewing. I'll then use procmail to fire the correct program if she > sends an email with a specific subject. > > G You can use any of the standard email notification programs - if you use GNOME, there's a panel applet - and filter the desired email to, say, ~/Mail/Honey_Im_Home. Have the biff clone watch that folder only, and that should do it. I think the GNOME one will even play a sound when new mail arrives. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | ... though his invention worked superbly -- | |steve@lobefin.net | his theory was a crock of sewage from | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The | | | Peace War" | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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