Thoughts on XFCE 4.3.90: root-tail?

[Biju Chacko]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, David F. Skoll wrote:

> Biju Chacko wrote:
>
>> The best thing to do would be to run vanilla tail in a borderless,
>> decorationless Terminal instance.
>
> Except root-tail does nice coloring of the output, and also, I can't see
> any way to turn off the scrollbar in Terminal.  (I mean, I can't see any
> way on the command-line -- I can see how to turn it off in the Preferences
> setting.)  Finally, the Terminal window also responds to the "Raise Window"
> keyboard accelerator, which is *not* the desired behavior.
>
> Using Terminal in this way is a hack, IMO.

I agree. The correct thing to do would be to hack root-tail to use it's 
own window.

-- b