The

User's Manual

Release 0.8.0, (C) 1999

14. Individual Customization

Besides the displays already mentioned, kISDN offers some nice additional features (number constantly increasing). To use them, click on the 'Customize' button. The following dialog pops up:

Anpassen-Dialog


Here you can modify user specific settings:

 

Script Execution

It is quite common to run certain programs after establishing an internet connection, e.g. a mail or news client, a browser, etc.
kISDN offers 'Scripting' for this purpose, meaning that you (as a user) can specify which programs should be run for each account. Choose an account of choice and press 'Edit':
Skript bei Verbindungsstart
If programs are to be run on connection, you will first have to check the appropriate checkbox 'Execute on connection', which makes the rest of the configuration dialog accessible. You can then add programs by entering a command with parameters into the 'Command' field and add it to the list by pressing 'Add'. The listed commands will be run one by one once a connection with this provider is established.
If the connection is to be closed after all programs have completed successfully, you can tell kISDN to do so by checking 'Disconnect when all scripts terminated'. You can also specify scripts to be executed when the connection is closed:
Skript bei Verbindungsende
this can be useful for stopping started services.Again, the field 'Execute after hangup' must be checked to get access to the remaining fields. The rest of the process is the same.

General Configuration

To modify kISDN's general behaviour, you can change some settings in this dialog:
Skript bei Verbindungsstart

These options are:
Always dock in panel
make kISDN dock in the panel everytime it starts up (see Docking display in the panel).

'Connected-Sound' after authentication

signal successful connection establishment.

Disconnect on X server shutdown

make sure that any open connections will be closed when the X server is shutdown.

Display incoming calls

If admin allowed monitoring of incoming calls with kcmkisdn, you may choose to make use of this option here. Now, if you machine receives an incoming call a message window will show with the (possibly) transmitted caller's phone number and the call may be accepted (if bothe hardware and driver allow this). If the phone number is listed in you phonebook, the associated name will be shown instead.

Show startup logo

If you really don't like to see the nice looking penguin with the ISDN card under his arm, you may choose to disable the startup logo here (not recommended ;-).

Playback of sound files

The sound configuration is as easy as it can be, all you have to do is to specify the events that you want to play a wav-file on and tell kISDN where it can find this file; you may want to use the '...' (browse) button.
Audio Dialog
Use the 'play' button the the left of the 'browse' button the check if you really chose the correct sound.

Color Customization

If you are dissatisfied with the colors of the throughput graph, you can give the lines for Reception, Transmission and Total colors of you choice.
Farben-Dialog
Click on any line to open a color selection dialog.

Skaling

In the tab 'Scaling', you can either activate automatic or static scaling. In case of automatic scaling, the separators will adapt to the current throughput, the static lines, however, will be independent of the current throughput.
Skalierungs-Dialog

Registration (tab 'about')

The development of kISDN is the result of an enormous amount of work by two students (even if that sounds unbelievable), who put almost their entire spare time into this project; in addition to that the testing of kISDN ate up hundreds of dollars. We think that this justifies a license fee of $19.95. The further development relies on this money.
The unregistered version kISDN 0.7.0 has three major drawbacks:

  • Internet connections are closed after 1 minute
  • Phone connections are closed after 30 seconds
  • kISDN will only load the first 5 entries in the phonebook

On registration you will receive a key that removes all limitations.
To register, please follow theses steps: install version 0.7 on your machine. Configure kISDN per kcmkisdn and make sure that kISDN works flawlessly (connections to your ISP can be established and the phone works).
A registration only makes sense if everything works the way it should (the registration does no more than remove the limitations mentioned above).
Open kISDN's main window and press 'Customize'. Click on the tab 'about':

Credits-Dialog
Click on 'register', a dialog should show:
Registrierungs-Dialog 1
Copy the upper 'personal' key and send it to kisdn@kisdn.headlight.de (leave the dialog with 'cancel'); we will respond and tell you our account number. As soon as we received the registration fee, we will send you your registration key, which you must enter in the 'registration key' field:
Registrierungs-Dialog 2
Press 'OK' this time and you will either see a message box reporting success or failure; the latter case is most commonly due to a typo; reattempt your registration.
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T. Westheider, Ch. Demmer, Ch. Zander / 6. February 1999 - kISDN Release 0.8.0