From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 13: 0: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from navy.csi.cam.ac.uk (navy.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF29B15352 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.197]) by navy.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10brXo-0005Xp-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:59:56 +0100 Received: from bjc23 by bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Postman Pat (and his black and white cat)) id 10brXo-00008d-00; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:59:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:59:56 +0100 (BST) From: "Ben J. Cohen" X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root Window under X? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Ben J. Cohen wrote: >I recall reading somewhere that it is possible to run Netscape in the root >window under X. (I can't find the original reference.) >Is it possible to run an arbitrary application in the root window? > >For example, I would like to run xconsole in the root window so that I can >see it but it doesn't get in the way too much (as it does at the moment). On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: >There is a program called roottail that you can display any file you want >superimposed on the root window. It *might* be in the ports collection. It isn't in the ports collection but it is available as an RPM in the SuSE Linux distribution. Does anyone know whether Roottail has a homepage with the source in? (Otherwise I'll have to try and extract the source from SPM and get it to work...) What if I ask the question above, but with say xload, i.e., is it possible to run xload in the root window? (If so is it possible to run two applications (e.g. xload *and* roottail) in the root window?) Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message