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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!skorpio3!oster From: oster@skorpio3.usask.ca (Greg Oster) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Seek dial-up PPP widget for NetBSD/fvwm2 Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:08:04 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5j82ok$3dq@tribune.usask.ca> References: <pk9208cl6wh.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: skorpio3.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5830 Christopher Gray (grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be) wrote: : I have a dial-up PPP connection with a fixed IP address; up to now : I've been using chat/connect to launch PPP from the shell. I was : wondering whether someone Out There has made something more point- : and-click; an fvwm2 ButtonBar module would be nice. Before I start : learning Tcl/Tk ... Have a look at the FvwmForm module. If you've already got the connection/disconnection scripts written, it should only take a few minutes to get things setup. Just add a "PPP" button to the button bar, and then create a little form which does the rest of the work (the button, of course, just pops up the form). I did this just the other day, and it works like a charm. (The form I created just has "Connect", "Disconnect", and "Cancel" buttons, and they call the appropriate scripts/whatever to get the job done.) Hope this helps. Later... Greg Oster oster@cs.usask.ca Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA