modem lights??

[Amichai Teumim]

I use netload. it should be an option when right clicking on the panel. 
it monitors all in-out activity of eth0 or whatever device you specify.

-amichai

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-05 at 21:32 -0400, Erik Harrison wrote:
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>>On 5/11/05, Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow at taliesin.ca> wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>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.)
>>>
>>>Am I missing something?
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>>Not at all. Simply hasn't been written. Seems like it'd be very easy
>>to write, if you wanted to take the time. You could looks to the
>>current mailcheck plugin as a base - it currently moniters a system
>>status, and calls an arbitrary program when clicked, which is the
>>basic functionality you want, just not for email.
>>
>>Another, easier but suckier, possibility: Use the genmon program and a
>>launcher, side by side in the panel. The launcher would be keyed to a
>>script that manually checked the PPP interface status, and called pon
>>or poff depending. The genmon plugin run a script that checked the PPP
>>interface status ever second or so, so the status would appear in the
>>panel.
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>Thanks,
>
>I think I'll stick with the trigger-launcher for the moment. Taking the
>code of the mail check plugin and combining it with the necessary code
>from teh gnome-modem-lights should probably be on the to-do list though.
>
>Andreas
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