[Xymon] non-blinking icons (nb-red.gif et al) for Xymon status?

[Sean MacGuire]

Gifs are available here: http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/

There were only 3 non-blinking gifs:

http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-purple.gif
http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-red.gif
http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-yellow.gif


J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> On Wed, March 4, 2015 4:23 pm, John Thurston wrote:
>> On 3/4/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Rakowski wrote:
>> - snip -
>>> Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd
>>> to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop
>>> display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and
>>> "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU
>>> time.
>> Not to mention they will just drive you crazy!
>>
>> We ripped out the blinkers and installed a new set of "calm" .png files.
>> We then sym-linked the old .gif names to new .png names and moved on
>> with our lives.
>>
>>> Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the
>>> non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong
>>> names), or do I need to make some new ones?  They used to be called
>>> "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my
>>> BigBrother server.
>> The green/red/etc.gif files are non-blinking, but they are used for
>> "older" alerts. The green/red/etc-recent.gif files are blinkers. I don't
>> think there are any other non-blinkers.
>>
> 
> 
> Interestingly, a Google search on those files turned up something called
> "Eclipse" from 1997, which seems to have been some sort of BB clone (at
> least bbbut.gif was included in it). There's no nb-${color}.gif in the
> Xymon distribution, but the '>24h' icons could indeed serve that purpose.
> 
> There are also other icons available at
> https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons that could be used.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -jc
> 
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