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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:16:57
Message-Id: 20090916161654.GB5823@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? by Willie Wong
1 Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> [09-09-16 18:08]:
2 > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cramer@×××.de squawked:
3 > > on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
4 > > I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
5 > > More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
6 > > system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
7 > > the background / root window.
8 >
9 > It may help if you point us to the screen shot.
10 >
11 > But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
12 > window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
13 > -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
14 > one for the root window :)
15 >
16 > http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html
17 > http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php
18 >
19 > W
20 > --
21 > A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
22 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53
23
24 Hi,
25
26 thank you for your posting ! :)
27
28 Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
29 Here it is (upper left corner):
30
31 http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg
32
33 By the way; For an unkown reason to me I am not
34 able to download any theme from customize org.
35 Is this a javascript problem? Does anyone else
36 managed to download a theme from there?
37
38
39
40 --
41 Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments
42 unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text.
43 See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
44 In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? Matthias Krebs <matthias.krebs@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>