Re: graphical frontend to pon/poff
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:22:26PM +0000, Simon Tod 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...
>
iirc gpppon should show you that you are connected, it could be that
you are experiencing permission problems. Try running pon from the
command line as the user and make sure that it gives you output.
iirc you need to set special permissions for it, the permissions for
pon and poff weren't enough.
> 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...
>
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> Simon Tod
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