root-tail and xfdesktop?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op ma 29-12-2003, om 19:47 schreef The Matt:
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:43, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Op ma 29-12-2003, om 18:29 schreef The Matt:
> > > I just decided to try out root-tail and found it doesn't work.  Is this
> > > because of some setting I need, or is it related to the xfdesktop root
> > > window business (e.g., xsnow, &c. not working).
> > 
> > The latter I'm afraid. I tried to get root-tail to write to the
> > xfdesktop window instead of the X root, but couldn't get it to work.
> 
> Yeah, I figured that out after I decided to search "root-tail xfce4". 
> Sorry.  Of course, that search did lead to this page:
> 
> http://www.tobert.org/unix/
> 
> where he uses xpenguins code to get root-tail to work in Nautilus and
> KDE.  But, since xpenguins doesn't work with xfdesktop, I'm doubting
> it's code would be useful with root-tail.
> 

Ooh, I just got this adapted root-tail to work. If I fake a
NAUTILUS_DESKTOP_ID things work (as should xpenguins ...).

I'll post a patch tomorrow, I think I'm going to use this.

Thanks, for pointing this out ;-)

cheers,
	Jasper

> Thanks,
> Matt