On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 13:29:55 +0100 Marc Koschewski <[email protected]> said:

the whole point of e making its own background window is so this isn't done -
multiple clients fighting over who draws to root. i highly suggest not to do
this. it WILL break. i guarantee it. there is a proper way to put things on e's
desktop - and that is via modules which have access to the desktop canvas.

> * P Purkayastha <[email protected]> [2011-02-06 20:08:35 +0800]:
> 
> Hey 'P' :)
> 
> That one works:
> 
> root-tail .xsession-errors -id `xwininfo -root -tree | grep "Enlightenment
> Background" | awk '{ print $1 }'`
> 
> Thanks for the hint!
> 
> Marc
> 
> > On 02/06/2011 07:17 PM, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
> > >
> > > what just came up again is that I tried to use root-tail with E17 some
> > > time ago but it didn't work. I'd like to use it. I know that there's
> > > 'conky' but that's not what I'd like to run.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone who has root-tail running or has a hint on why E17
> > > doesn't allow to write into it's root window?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Marc
> > >
> > 
> > E17 creates its own root window which is above the "root" of X. If you 
> > absolutely must use root-tail then you need to provide it E17's root 
> > window, not X's root. That can be done using the -id switch to 
> > root-tail. The window id of E17 can be obtained by grep-ing for 
> > "Enlightenment Background" in the output of xwininfo -root -tree
> > 
> > The end result could be quite ugly though, with lots of flickering :)
> > 
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