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authorslakmagik <slakmagik@gmail.com>2010-06-30 22:02:06 -0400
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-07-03 15:52:10 -0500
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-Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e. it is
-kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background as output
-window.
+Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e.
+it is kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background
+as output window.
It has configurable colors, fonts, wrapping, justifying, continuation
-indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also making
-it a sort of multi-tail.
+indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also
+making it a sort of multi-tail.
For example:
root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
-By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to explicitly
-specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id" flag of
-root-tail). Use the xprop command to find the active root display, and run
-this through the cut command to strip out the ID number for insertion into the
-root-tail `-id` field.
+By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to
+explicitly specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id"
+flag of root-tail). Use the xprop command to find the active root
+display, and run this through the cut command to strip out the ID number
+for insertion into the root-tail `-id` field.
It looks a little something like this: