I use a program called root-tail which is nice for monitoring /var/log/messages. It just puts the text right on your desktop. You could just as easily write a script to put whatever forecast text you want into a file and have root-tail put it on your desktop.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/root-tail/ Can you have xv change only a small part of your desktop, or do you have the image "full-screen"? Skip On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 21:35, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:32:01AM -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > Intellicast, Weather.com, and so on have desktop modules to run > > radar loops continuously on one's desktop. Unfortunately, they are > > all only for windows. Does anyone know of a good desktop weather > > module for Linux? > > I just use xv, and download whatever image I want in the background > with wget. xv is the only image program I could find that auto-updates > if the image/file changes. Works well if all you want is the image. > > -- > Hal Burgiss > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
