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authortron <tron@pkgsrc.org>2002-07-07 14:15:29 +0000
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-What is faces?
---------------
-
This is the third general release of a "faces" server for monitoring a
list visually. Typically this is a list of incoming mail messages, jobs
in the print queue or users on a system.
-
-Faces has five different modes of operation:
-
- (a) The default will monitor for new mail. By default, only the last ten
- messages are displayed. Using the left mouse button it is possible to
- toggle the text in the faces window. This will either be the username
- or the time the mail message arrived. The icon shows the image of the
- last message to arrive.
-
- (b) You can monitor the whole of a mail file. The open window will
- automatically adjust it's size to correctly show the face icons. The
- open window options are the username or the timestamp and number of
- message from that user. The icon will display the image of the last
- message, and a count of the total number of messages in the spool
- file or mail folder.
-
- (c) Monitoring a given print queue. This will generate a single face icon
- showing the job at the top of the print queue, and the text message
- will display the printer name plus the number of jobs to be printed.
- Opening the window will show images of all the jobs in the queue. The
- text on each image can be toggled, choices being the owners' name and
- the size of the job in bytes.
-
- (d) Monitoring users on a machine. For each user, a face image is displayed.
- Text can be either the username or the time they logged on. The iconic
- form displays the total number of users.
-
- (e) Custom monitoring. You can specify a program or shell script to run.
- The standard output from this program will be read by the faces program,
- and the appropriate faces displayed using the information provided. The
- format of this face information is given in the faces manual page.
-
-Included with this release, is the ability to include a face image with
-your mail message using an X-Face header line (plus continuation lines).
-Faces expects this line to be in a certain compressed format, and
-uncompresses it, and displays that image on-the-fly. There is also an
-option to automatically update the faces database with this new image.
-
-Audio capabilities are also provided as a conditional compilation option.
-
-By default, after every sixty seconds, faces will recheck the mail file or
-the print queue. If the mail spool file has changed size, it will produce a
-chain of records for which it has face icons.
-
-This release contains graphical interfaces for NeWS, SunView, X11 and XView.
-
-Faces is based on the AT&T v8 face server called vismon, but is not derived
-from vismon sources. With the previous version came vismon compatibility.
-Note that that resulted in a few changes from the way faces v1.1 worked.
-See the manual pages for more details.