From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 13:23:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk (lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7C715686 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.197]) by lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10bruY-0003Xw-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:23:26 +0100 Received: from bjc23 by bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Postman Pat (and his black and white cat)) id 10bruY-0000BW-00; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:23:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:23:26 +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 On Mon, 26 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? >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...) Ah, for the record the home page is: http://208.240.253.47/root-tail/ (Search for "root tail" not "roottail" on freshmeat.) Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message