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author | Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-14 22:27:51 +0000 |
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committer | Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-14 22:27:51 +0000 |
commit | f6c670a07964555aff3f81894d7c580816cd914c (patch) | |
tree | 2cf65b3265554b4cefab01b01ff9a1fe4918fd8e /mail/faces/pkg-descr | |
parent | Update from version 13.5 to version 14.0. (diff) |
faces - visual mail, user and print face server
can nicely be used with exmh
Submitted by: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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diff --git a/mail/faces/pkg-descr b/mail/faces/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..27ac7d63518d --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/faces/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +What is faces? +-------------- + +This is the third general release of a "faces" server for monitoring a +list visually. Typically this is a list of incoming mail messages, jobs +in the print queue or users on a system. + +Faces has five different modes of operation: + + (a) The default will monitor for new mail. By default, only the last ten + messages are displayed. Using the left mouse button it is possible to + toggle the text in the faces window. This will either be the username + or the time the mail message arrived. The icon shows the image of the + last message to arrive. + + (b) You can monitor the whole of a mail file. The open window will + automatically adjust it's size to correctly show the face icons. The + open window options are the username or the timestamp and number of + message from that user. The icon will display the image of the last + message, and a count of the total number of messages in the spool + file or mail folder. + + (c) Monitoring a given print queue. This will generate a single face icon + showing the job at the top of the print queue, and the text message + will display the printer name plus the number of jobs to be printed. + Opening the window will show images of all the jobs in the queue. The + text on each image can be toggled, choices being the owners' name and + the size of the job in bytes. + + (d) Monitoring users on a machine. For each user, a face image is displayed. + Text can be either the username or the time they logged on. The iconic + form displays the total number of users. + + (e) Custom monitoring. You can specify a program or shell script to run. + The standard output from this program will be read by the faces program, + and the appropriate faces displayed using the information provided. The + format of this face information is given in the faces manual page. + +Included with this release, is the ability to include a face image with +your mail message using an X-Face header line (plus continuation lines). +Faces expects this line to be in a certain compressed format, and +uncompresses it, and displays that image on-the-fly. There is also an +option to automatically update the faces database with this new image. + +Audio capabilities are also provided as a conditional compilation option. + +By default, after every sixty seconds, faces will recheck the mail file or +the print queue. If the mail spool file has changed size, it will produce a +chain of records for which it has face icons. + +This release contains graphical interfaces for NeWS, SunView, X11 and XView. + +Faces is based on the AT&T v8 face server called vismon, but is not derived +from vismon sources. With the previous version came vismon compatibility. +Note that that resulted in a few changes from the way faces v1.1 worked. +See the manual pages for more details. |