Re: graphical frontend to pon/poff
Hello,
I am using the Modem Lights Applet included in woody for Gnome 1.4. You
then have a little icon on the task bar in which you can connect,
discontect, watch modem lights, transfer activity....etc. It uses pon
and poff command by default, but you can change it if needed. You can
find it in gnome menu, appletts->network-> modem lights.
Good luck.
Ramiro (Valladolid, Spain)
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...
>
> 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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