Re: [wmii] Need help with mailnotifier, I am confused

the thought process behind that is that the script takes awhile to run and
if run inside status() it will delay the status function a bit longer

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Alex Kilgore <adkilgor_AT_spartan.uncg.edu>
wrote:

> the ls -Al thing was to correct the message count which was being returned
> improperly
>
> Im not exactly sure what you mean by "the wmiirc refresh from the
> statusbar menu"
> would you please explain this in more detail?
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Niels Rasmussen <nielsrasmus_AT_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Alex Kilgore skrev:
> >
> > > How are you calling the script
> > > I did this in my .xinitrc before wmii
> > > while true; do perl /home/alex/.wmii-3.5/mail.pl; sleep 60;done &
> > > which should run the script every minute, you dont need to call the
> > script
> > > from wmiirc at all
> >
> > Well I just run the wmiirc refresh from the statusbar menu
> >
> > But wouldn't that be the same either way ??
> >
> > I've tried :
> >
> > $mail = `ls -Al | wc -l`;
> > $mail--;
> >
> > Didn't help :-/
> >
> > --
> > /Niels
> > Registered Linux user #133791
> > Get counted at http://counter.li.org
> >
> >
> >
>
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