Re: graphical frontend to pon/poff
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:22:26 +0000 (GMT)
Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a box for my Dad so that it's
> nice and user friendly and he won't have to resort to
> the command line to use a few simple packages. Having
> used Knoppix for its awesome hardware detection I
> stripped out KDE and replaced it with Gnome, for the
> accessibility tools.
>
> I thought gkdial would be just the ticket to use as a
> 'wrapper' around pon/poff - gpppon is too simplistic -
> and it seems to work, reasonably well. BUT the dialog
> box doesn't display the fact that it's successfully
> connected and the counters that display bytes
> transferred and length of connection stay at zero.
> ALSO, if I close the dialog box when I'm not connected
> I can't reopen it, except from the command line and
> the whole point was to have a nice user friendly icon
> on the desktop...
>
> Anyone else had any problems with this or is there an
> alternative wrapper that'll work with Gnome? I know
> there's kppp but that requires pulling back in all the
> kdelibs stuff...
>
> Thanks...
>
You could try the Libranetppp.
It will supply you with a full on-screen log/analysis complete with byte
read-out and other applicables if you want to sit around and watch. If
you don't, just minimize it, pull it up again in case of disconnections
or whatever. It operates on a simple click connect/disconnect, so it
sounds as though that's what you are looking for.
They have an excellent adminmenu/Xadminmenu setup that is great for
newbies, also. I'm not at my main machine at the moment. I could post
the appropriate entry for your apt/sources list later, though, if you
require it, or if you need it sooner, drop by the forums on the site.
http://www.libranet.com/
Regards,
David.
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