On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:49:34 -0700 (PDT) "stephen...@yahoo.com" <stephen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
... > At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' > before I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or > even ping. My question is, is there any way I can get iceweasel (or > ping) to cause a GUI dialog to appear, asking me if I want to > establish the ADSL connection, if it is not up? (In other words, the > way it works in Windows?) Said GUI dialog would preferably work on > top of kfce, which I like. An interesting question. I have no idea if there's some standard way to do this, but it should be fairly straightforward to cobble together something using a local "firewall", plus something like fwlogwatch, invoked with the -R option for "realtime response mode". The idea would be to configure your firewall to log all packets somewhere, and watch for them with fwlogwatch, which can be configured to take some arbitrary action when it sees packets. The action, in your case, would be to launch whatever GUI tool you want. [You might want to also have the action reconfigure the firewall to throttle back its logging once the connection is up, since that could be a pretty heavy load on a connected system.] Once again, there may very well be a simpler, standard way of doing what you want, but I don't know of it. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
