reassign 566932 screen-message thanks Source package sm is something else which I happen to maintain.
Cheers, Dirk On 25 January 2010 at 23:40, Didier Raboud wrote: | Package: sm | Version: 0.18-1 | Severity: wishlist | | Hi, | | I was in the process of writing a countdown timer in bash with the help of sm, when, after multiple tries with named pipes, etc, I went to the conclusion that it was not doable now with sm (I didn't succeed to clear the sm screen). | | My idea is to echo the remaining time to a pipe and pointing sm to the pipe in question. It "somehow works". | | So I would like to propose the creation of a "deamon-like" sm, which could be one of the following solutions: | | * accepting a SIGUSR1 to clear the screen (then putting things in the pipe would simply work) | * Accepting \r to clear the line (actually, it produces a weird char) | * Adding an option that would monitor a file. Then updating the file would simply display its constant on the screen. | * Another crazy idea I can't have right now. | | Thanks in advance for considering and best regards, | | OdyX | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: squeeze/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (90, 'experimental'), (50, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | | Versions of packages sm depends on: | ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit | ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib | ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra | ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library | ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib | ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines | ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface | ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio | | sm recommends no packages. | | sm suggests no packages. | | -- no debconf information | | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
