monolith Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Hey, just wondering if its possible to have some kind of system log (iptables) as a scrolling desktop background? Thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 i think there are some gdesktlets or superkaramba themes for this stuff available. but maybe it can also be done using eterm... but i am not sure. i would need to check it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) You can make a transparent, borderless, unselectable Eterm window running (for example) $top like this: Eterm -x -0 --trans --scrollbar=off --buttonbar 0 -q -e 'top' That will make it completely transparent, force it to the background and you won't be able to focus on it, and run the top command. If you do that, you might want to use the -g switch as well. Here's the format: -g XcoordxYcoord+height+width (height and width might be reversed, size is in pixels (I think)) [i learned this from [b]LiquidZoo[/b] in this forum] Edited June 6, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ghil Vertefeuille Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 a moderator should do a thread about little tweaks like this, they are asked often :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 This can actually be done on the root window with a cool tool now. It's resource-intensive done that way, so you actually want it to write more slowly. phosphor is the tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 nice tip, thank you ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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