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:
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':

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:

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:

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.

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.

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.

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':

Click on 'register', a dialog should
show:

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:

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.
Back
to the overview
T.
Westheider, Ch. Demmer, Ch. Zander / 6. February 1999 - kISDN Release
0.8.0
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