==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] xbiff; Jeff Kinz <jkinz@kinz.org> adds: jkinz> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:50:13AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:07:18AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > replacement? hmm - my email clients seem to let me know without extra > features.
Mine notifies me, too, but only if I'm in that screen. (Multiple screens (insert correct name if not "screens") on my desktop.) Also, I use it to notify me of new activity in other files. It's really quite flexible and useful for local event notification.
jkinz> Sounds very useful. I believe Gnome and KDE have built something jkinz> into their respective packages to do similar functionality. jkinz> Also- didn't something called "inotify" just make it into the jkinz> kernel? I think that is also a file change notification utility? It's not in the kernel as of 2.6.10. There are patches, of course, but even if it were in the kernel, it wouldn't be a drop in replacement for xbiff (obviously). Though, it wouldn't be too difficult to write a replacement using inotify. -Jeff