On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Chris Martin wrote:
> Has anyone found a way to get some sort of gui for wvdial under WIndowMaker,
> specifically getting it to work with wmppp. I like the woderfully simple
> wvdial but hate the clumsy start from the terminal. Any help greatly
> appreciated.
Add wvdial to the menu options, so that you just click on the menu and
it executes wvdial in a Eterm, rxvt, or xterm. You could go into
$HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu and add something like:
"GO ONLINE" EXEC xterm -e wvdial
to the menu options. Now when you click on the display to get your menus
you'll see on your menu list an option called "GO ONLINE". Click on this
and it will automatically open an xterm which runs wvdial in the xterm
for you and
contacts your isp. All the normal xterm args apply, so if you don't even
want to see this happen just run it iconified etc. And, of course, you can
do stuff like xterm -ico -T "wvdial" -fg black -bg white -fn vga -e
wvdial phone2 etc. This will run an xterm iconified with a wvdial title, a vga
font, black text on a white background and will dial the second number
setting in /etc/wvdial.conf. All you'll see with using -ico is a
little xterm icon on your desktop with the word "wvdial" on top of the
icon. You can then grab this and doc it and now everytime you click on it
it should run wvdial _for_ you with just that little click.
(Note: you don't have have to add it manually to the menu. If you type
'xterm -e wvdial &' inside an xterm at the prompt then it'll run wvdial
in an xterm and then you can just dock it as you did before. This way may
be a bit nicer since you don't have to edit your config files at all. Do
this once and dock it and now online is just a click away. Either way
works. And once again standard xterm args apply.)
-M
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