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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> |
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover |
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> meino.cramer@×××.de squawked: |
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>> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) ) |
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>> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes. |
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>> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a |
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>> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto |
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>> the background / root window. |
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> It may help if you point us to the screen shot. |
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> But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root |
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> window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the |
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> -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right |
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> one for the root window :) |
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Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, conky |
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was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while |
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torsmo has been discontinue upstream. |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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