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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
