Bug#270597: /usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff: request ability to temporarily disable xbiff
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff
Having just come back from a time management seminar, I've decided I
need the ability to temporarily shut off xbiff (I should also kill our
USENET feed, too).
I start xbiff within my FvwmButtons, and it automatically respawns if
somethign goes wrong (the ssh connection dies, etc).
So in a bid for more procrastination, I decided I could have a button
to do:
`killall -STOP xbiff`
Unfortunately, this did not work, with FvwmButtons somehow deciding it
had to spawn another xbiff.
So my next plan for procrastination involves writing this feature
request (if I get really bored, I can code it up too :).
My ideas were perhaps having xbiff check for the presence of a file,
say $HOME/.xbiff-disable, at poll time, and if there, skip over the
mail check, and go back to polling.
Does this sound like a worthwhile thing to include in xbiff? Is there
perhaps a more elegant method that I haven't thought of, that would be
a better way of implementing this?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:3.3.4-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System event recording an
ii libxv1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System video extension li
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime
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