On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:49:03PM +1200, Karl. wrote: > The window is being used as a notification (showing me what mail I > have, as it arrives, or if there is any trouble with the fetching). > It tails mail.log and procmail.log, then does a summary of which > folders have new mail, then times out and goes away automatically.
There is a program out there that tails various logs to the X root window. I think it's called root-tail or somethink like that. Perhaps it does what you want? But I don't use it and I don't know how well it runs with dwm - perhaps it uses WM_HINTS. Regards, Christian -- ....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de UH VEN
