I'd like to propose a change to Nodespy to make it easier for people running
multiple Mystic BBS for whatever reason. Right now I'm running two (one normal
BBS, one Alpha 7 testing BBS) but have had as many as four on a screen at
once. Even with just two it gets very confusing which Nodespy is which on screen
so I'd like an optional ID field of up to four characters added after the 'Node
Spy' presently displayed. It would be added to the nodespy.ini as
an optional next line like :
id = Pi
Resulting in 'Node Spy Pi' showing in the present title area. Being optional ;id
= 1234 might be added to the nodespy.ini to show users the idea as an
added
last line to the current nodespy.ini. I can see room in the present field for up
to six characters added (visable or color codes), but I think it looks better
with a space before and after the title so that's why the four characters vs
six. Right now I've hacked it in to my screens with hexedit by deleting a color
character and moving the space to give me two characters and using Pi and LX to
identify the 'NodeSpy Pi' from 'NodeSpy LX' (for Linux),
but can see that 'Node Spy LX32' and 'Node Spy LX64'would be useful when testing
the two side by side. On the Pi with wide screen HDMI monitor it's
easy to have four Nodespy displays up at once with some other room still on
the screen, I often have at least four screens up at once: two Nodespys and
two bash editing shells with a squeezed web browser to the right of them.
Example at http://bcw142.zapto.org/2016-03-23-045247_1776x952_scrot.png
* WOW: connected via ssh with X forwarding scrot took the screen shot I was
* looking at and saved it to the machine I was forwarded to!
I had originally thought of using the BBS name field from mystic.dat which
Nodespy reads but there isn't really room in the current display for that many
characters to be added without changing the look of the screen a lot and I
realized the nodespy.ini was the best place for defining added characters
and options like that as it already does with transfer_dir.
Thanks for considering changes and for the Mystic BBS software itself which
can run on a raspberry pi at about 3 watts and yet serve many people around
the world at the same time, amazing.
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A4 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Cyberia BBS | Cyberia.Darktech.Org | Kingwood, TX
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