On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Sigvard Lyth wrote:
> Hey people!
>
> I've just come back from a small surf, and have a "slightly" off topic
> question for y'all.
>
> On several of the screenshots from *.themes.org have consoletext,
> seamingly from tty1, or whereever they're logged in from, and it scrolls
> up the screen...
>
> I understand that this is probably done with some kind of terminal
> emulator, with transparent background, and colored text... But I can't
> seem to figure out how to go about this... I've tried adding stuff in
> ..xinitrc, without luck, tried with rxvt -inherentpixmap blah, blah...
>
> Now I'm sick of hacking, and want a quick solution... Help? Anyone?
I believe what you're looking for is a program called root-tail. It sits
on top of the root window transparently, scrolling various /var/log/*
logs.
Look something like this?
http://pmj.darkillustrated.org/graphics/temp.png
Hit freshmeat.net and search for root-tail. From there, it's pretty
straightforward.
Philip Johnson / [a]orange
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