modem lights??

[Andreas J. Guelzow]

On Wed, 2005-11-05 at 15:18 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 
> > SInce I am somewhat unhappy with Gnome I am trying out Xfce and am
> > quite pleased with what I am seeing. Unfortunately I appear to fail
> > to find a panel applet akin to Gnome's modem light (ie. an applet
> > that when clicked calls pon or poff depending on an ppp connection
> > being active or not.)
> 
> You could use something like xfce4-trigger-launcher, though I'm not
> sure it's as robust as you need it to be.  If sometihng brings the ppp
> interface up or down outside of the button, it may not show the
> correct state (or take the correct action on a click).  Someone who
> knows the plugin better than I do can probably elaborate...

Thanks Brian,

This should do for the moment. With the script: 

#!/bin/sh

# script to call pon/poff
# for use with xfce4-trigger-launcher
if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
    pon interbaun &> /dev/null  # replace interbaun with your 
                                # connection name
elif [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
    poff &> /dev/null
else
    if [ -f /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 ]; then
        echo 1
    else
        echo 0
    fi
fi

the xfce4-trigger-launcher does the main things I need. (It does not
indicate when the connection is really up versus the dialing and
connecting is still in progress, but that is not absolutely necessary.)

Andreas

-- 
Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta
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