Debian Bug report logs - #35596
xbase-clients: [xbiff] want to be able to run a program from it

Package: x11-apps; Maintainer for x11-apps is Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>; Source for x11-apps is src:x11-apps (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:18:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: upstream

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected] (Mark W. Eichin):
Bug#35596; Package xcontrib. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected] (Mark W. Eichin). (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] ( Debian bug reports)
Subject: xbiff: want to be able to run a program from it
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:37:44 +0100 (BST)
Package: xcontrib
Version: 3.3.2-3
Severity: wishlist

It would be really nice if xbiff were to be able to run a program by,
say, clicking mouse-3 over it.  The obvious use I see is this:  people
are subscribed to several mailing lists, and sort their mail using
procmail or mailagent or the like, and have multiple xbiffs running to
watch the various mailboxes used.  Then clicking with mouse-3 will
fork and exec the command in ~/.xbiff, which might look something like:

xterm -title %F -e mutt -f %F

where %F is replaced by the fullname of the mailfolder being checked.

Of course, have to watch out for buffer overflows etc., although this
is not actually a security risk (no setuid, etc.).

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [email protected]
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Bug reassigned from package `xcontrib' to `xbase-clients'. Request was from Kevin Ryde <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title. Request was from Kevin Ryde <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug closed, send any further explanations to Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> Request was from Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reopened, originator set to Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>. Request was from Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Tags added: upstream Request was from Branden Robinson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reassigned from package `xbase-clients' to `x11-apps'. Request was from Julien Cristau <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:12:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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