Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:39:18 Frank Shute wrote: > ~/.xinitrc is only run when you use startx and ~/.xsession is used > when you run the display manager xdm(1). > > I believe kdm also uses xsession. > > This is all IIRC. I haven't used a display manager for sometime and > I've never used kdm.

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread perryh
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), > Pieter Donche wrote: > > From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 & puts > > it in my upper right corner, [...] > > Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added by KDE's window > manager? IIRC that construc

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche wrote: > From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 & puts > it in my upper right corner, [...] Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added by KDE's window manager? > but if I put that in my .xinitrc > (and chmod

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:25:24PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Frank Shute wrote: > > >On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> > >>On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche > >>> wro

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Pieter Donche
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the s

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: > > >On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche > > wrote: > >>What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, > >>so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Pieter Donche
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? I have the following line in my ~/.xinitrc: xbiff -geometry 50x50

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, > which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox > /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon > being raised. > > What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, > so that

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche wrote: > What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, > so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? I have the following line in my ~/.xinitrc: xbiff -geometry 50x50+0+998 & This is for the lower left co

how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD 7/KDE 3.5, /usr/local/bin/bash in /etc/passwd as login shell I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise com