WMBIFF(1) WMBIFF(1) NAME WMBiff - A dockable Mailbox Monitor SYNOPSIS wmbiff [-display <display name>] [-geometry +XPOS+YPOS] [-c <filename>] [-h] [-v] [-debug] [-fg <foreground-color>] [-font <X11 font>|default] [-hi <highlight-color>] DESCRIPTION WMbiff displays the status of up to five mailboxes. It gives informa- tion about new mail, if any, or total number of messages. It also has mail retrieval capabilies, and can be configured to do this automati- cally. At the moment, UNIX-style, maildir, POP3, APOP and IMAP4 mail- boxes are supported. WMbiff also supports Licq history files and gnomeicu, displaying the number of new messages in your running ses- sion, as if they were mail. The mailboxes are displayed in 5 different lines, each one with its own description of up to five chars. If no mail is present in a given mail- box, WMbiff will display the total number of mails in cyan. If there's new mail in the box, the number of new messages will be displayed in yellow. When new mail arrives, this number will optionally flash for a small period of time, and also optionally, a command can be executed on mail arrival (for example, opening your mail reader or playing a sound file). Pressing mouse button 1 will execute a command, defined in the user's config file. Mouse button 3 will execute a command to fetch mail, if defined. OPTIONS -h Show summary of options. -v Show version of program. -display <display name> Use an alternate X Display. -geometry <geometry> Initial window position. -c <filename> Use specified configuration file instead of ~/.wmbiffrc. -debug Print verbose log of progress. -fg <color> Use specified X11 color. Implies -font default, unless overrid- den. -font <font> Use specified X11 font instead of the LED pixmap. This may be more readable or suitable for some non-US characters. The spe- cial font "default" tells wmbiff to use a compile time default. -hi <color> Use specified X11 color for new mail counters. Implies -font default, unless overridden. BUGS Send bug reports or suggestions to the WMBiff Development Mailing List <wmbiff-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. Consider attaching a transcript of your session, generated using: wmbiff -debug | tee wmbiff-log Be sure to remove any instances of your password. FILES ~/.wmbiffrc peruser wmbiff configuration file. AUTHOR This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, originally for the Debian system (but may be used by others). WMBiff was first maintained by Gennady Belyakov. Since January 2001 it is maintained group of people that have added lots of new features to the original program. Please see the README document for a list of all the people involved. SEE ALSO wmbiffrc(5) /usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc (or equivalent for your system) wmbiff October 4, 2001 WMBIFF(1)