Rootwindow printer?

[Biju Chacko]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:02:08 +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:

> I've just 'jumped ship' to XFCE after many centuries of using WindowMaker and
> FVWM, and I like it a lot!  
> 
> My main gripe about XFCE is that xfdesktop hijacks the root-window making
> things like root-tail or xearth not work.  (Unless I'm missing something?)
> 
> I can live without earth, but root-tail is somewhat more important to me.
> 
> Is anyone hacking on a root-tail replacement for xfdesktop yet?  If not, I'll
> give it a go.  Good GTK practice :-)

Run tail -f in a borderless, transparent Eterm.

:-)

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