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- From: grossjoh@marcy.ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Grossjohann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: xbiff for talk requests
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:24:31
- Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, Lehrstuhl Informatik VI
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- Hi there.
-
- I've posted this before to comp.windows.x.apps but I didn't get much response.
- Maybe I'll get better response here:
-
-
- Hi all,
-
- I'm looking for a tool that is to talk as xbiff is to mail. That is, I would
- like to have an icon on-screen that beeps and flashes whenever somebody wants to
- "talk" to me.
-
- I have already tried contool (a console messages monitoring tool). It lets me,
- say, tell the computer to give me an xmessage whenever a "Message from
- Talk_Daemon@..." appears on the console. The disadvantage, however, is that this
- does not catch talk requests that appear on windows other than the console.
- (This is important for me because often I'm logged in to several computers at
- once, all on the same X display.) Also, X-Terminals do not have a console
- window.
-
- Any suggestions?
-
- ThanX a lot in advance.
-
- PS:
-
- One of the responses to the first posting was that somebody has modified the
- source of xterm such that it pops up when somebody tries to "talk" to it. That
- would be of great help!
-
-
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