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ultim8
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 Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: root-tail on a specific virtual desktop? |
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Hello,
I'm trying to get root-tail to display on a specific virtual desktop. I currently use KDE and have 4 virtual desktops. I would like root-tail to only show on the 4th one....I'm not sure how to do that though.... any clues?
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ToeiRei
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you could use (super)karamba for that - it would appear in the desktop background.
another possibility would be a terminal 
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ultim8
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I would specifically like to use the app 'root-tail'. In the man page it mentions a display id, but I don't know what the display id's would be for each individual desktops
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gentsquash
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Coincidences never cease, ultim8 . I read of `root-tail' today on
GentooForums, and I too would like to know if the individual KDE
desktops have different ids. I am aware of the programs
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xprop
xwininfo -children |
Invoke, then click in the window (or desktop) whose information
you want. I wasn't able to get ids which distinguished the
desktops. However, each cmd has several options that I did not try.
ultim8, would you be willing to post your root-tail cmd, with
arguments ... and where (in what shell or init
file) you are executing it?
I have tried
| Code: | root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,red \
-font 12x24 /var/log/syslog,green -font 10x20 /var/log/auth.log & |
but am not yet content with the result. With your command, does
the root-tail display remain? Does it appear on all your KDE desktops?
When I invoke root-tail from `konsole', I only get messages on
one KDE desktop (I think that this is what you want) except that
the messages don't stay. If I switch to a different desktop,
then back, the messages are gone. Indeed (I only just started
playing with it) it seems that even moving windows on the desktop
eradicates the root-tail display.
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theDreamer
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| gentsquash wrote: | Coincidences never cease, ultim8 . I read of `root-tail' today on
GentooForums, and I too would like to know if the individual KDE
desktops have different ids. I am aware of the programs
| Code: |
xprop
xwininfo -children |
Invoke, then click in the window (or desktop) whose information
you want. I wasn't able to get ids which distinguished the
desktops. However, each cmd has several options that I did not try.
ultim8, would you be willing to post your root-tail cmd, with
arguments ... and where (in what shell or init
file) you are executing it?
I have tried
| Code: | root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,red \
-font 12x24 /var/log/syslog,green -font 10x20 /var/log/auth.log & |
but am not yet content with the result. With your command, does
the root-tail display remain? Does it appear on all your KDE desktops?
When I invoke root-tail from `konsole', I only get messages on
one KDE desktop (I think that this is what you want) except that
the messages don't stay. If I switch to a different desktop,
then back, the messages are gone. Indeed (I only just started
playing with it) it seems that even moving windows on the desktop
eradicates the root-tail display. |
Any chance you found a solution for that?
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