What is that program?

[Dork5150]

I was going through the 'Show us your desktops post' and a lot of the screenshots have a program running that displays their log messages and it look like it is displayed right on there desktop, but there is no borders to the program or anything so I haven't been able to figure out what program it is.

Hope you all know what I'm talking about

Thanks

[The_Hitman]

Uh...yeah.. I wanna know tooo....anyone?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I think they're using eterm, with transparencies. I'm not sure, though, how they get it to pipe the system console entries, though...

[TacKat]

They run a `tail' on the appropriate log file. Somewhere in the thread I think cheeky_zombie stated how he did it (several other people gave examples for other terms IIRC). Basically, it's just an e-term with no borders, no scrollbar and transparency.

[Dork5150]

Well i think it's kinda funny that I'm now answering my own message, but I'll do it anyways.

So one program you can use to achieve this effect is root-portal
root-portal (http://root-portal.sourceforge.net)

I don't know if this is what other people use, there might be a simplier way, so if you use something else let me know

[Hitokiri_X]

I think root-tail is what you're looking for.

[z0mbix]

I just use a transparent Eterm with a tail like this:

Eterm -Ox -g 141x8+154+660 -F nexus --no-input --no-cursor -n \{:/var/log/messages:\} -T \{:/var/log/messages:\} --scrollbar off -f grey -e tail -150f /var/log/messages &

Obviously remove the -F nexus if you don't have that font and change -g 141x8+154+660 to where you want this to appear. Also, make sure your user has read permissions for /var/log/messages.

[ 11 March 2002: Message edited by: cheeky_zombie ]

[Ludootje]

I think you're talking about an xconsole.