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 -- no debconf information
