Fax notification: blinking LEDs on keyboard

Timo Neumann (james@uni-hohenheim.de)
1 Sep 1999 1915:21:50 GMT


Peter Poh <cd19@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> schrieb:
>"new_fax" (e.g. forward to a mail address). I find it interesting that
>someone managed to make the keyboard LEDs blink when a fax has arrived
>(so that you get a notification via glancing at the computer keyboard
> even when the monitor is off).

Hi Peter,

search for blinkd. It is a daemon, that can make the NumLock and
the ScrollLock LED blink. It has a sample new_fax script
included.

As i have it as a debian package from the distrib, I don't know 
whereelse to get it. Archie is your friend :-)

hth,

Timo
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