On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:28 AM, <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I understand the purpose of these to be to run something repeatedly, with > some predefined interval between times. > > I'm wondering > - how relevant would that sort of thing be to our context i.e. > file-management during a non-persistent application-session ? > I don't know how this concerns others, but I often tend to use emel as a session-manager, in the sense that I launch many of my apps from emel, especially as root. Personally, when in need to monitor smth, I would rather turn to emel. > - can that sort of thing be achieved by simply running one of those existing > things from within e2 ? > At least watch fails: >watch df (11400) Error opening terminal: unknown. >watch df (11400) returned '1' As for xfce4-genmon, it uses Xfce's panel, so it's not compatible with any terminal. Regards Liviu > Thoughts ? > > Regards > Tom > > > -- > Users can unsubscribe from the list by sending email to > emelfm2-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field or by > logging into the web interface. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail -- Users can unsubscribe from the list by sending email to emelfm2-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field or by logging into the web interface.