On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover [email protected] squawked: > on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) ) > I came across a lot of screenshots of themes. > More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a > system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto > the background / root window.
It may help if you point us to the screen shot. But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right one for the root window :) http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php W -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53
