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XPBIFF(1)

11(18 October 1990)



XPBIFF(1)                X Version 11(18 October 1990)                XPBIFF(1)


NAME
      xpbiff - Popup biff for X

SYNOPSIS
      xpbiff [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...]

DESCRIPTION
      The xpbiff program displays a little image of a mailbox.  When mail
      arrives, the animate "Flying mail", and popup sender & subject
      information.

OPTIONS
      Xpbiff accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along
      with the additional options listed below:

      -nfg colorname
              -nbg colorname Picture foreground / background color when still
              not arrive mail.  The default value is black and cyan.

      -pollingtime time
              Polling /usr/spool/mail interval time.  Default time is
              15000[msec] = 15 [seconds]

      -noraise
              Do not raise up xpbiff when arrive mail.

      -nopopup
              Do not popup sender and subject information.

      -noanimate
              Do not animate.

      -nobell Do not bell.

      -nopopdown
              Do not show popdown button on sender information.

      -mono   Color coordinates for monochrome server.

      -patchlevel
              Show current patchlevel and source code version.

      -arrivebitmap arrivebitmapfilname
              -nobitmap nobitmapfilname Set bitmap file when mail arrived,
              and no arrive.

      -popupgeometry geometry
              Set popup abusolute geometry in X geometry format.

SEE ALSO
      X(1), stat(2)



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XPBIFF(1)                X Version 11(18 October 1990)                XPBIFF(1)


BUGS
      The mailbox bitmaps are ugly too.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
      Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute without charge this
      software, documentation, images, etc. is granted, provided that this
      comment and the author's name is retained.  The author assumes no
      responsibility for lost sleep as a consequence of use of this software.
      Send any comments, bug reports, etc. to: shutoh@isl.yamaha.co.jp or, for
      oversea: shutoh%isl.yamaha.co.jp%kddlab@uunet.uu.net

AUTHOR
      Kazuhiko Shutoh (shutoh@isl.yamaha.co.jp)









































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