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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> |
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> wrote: |
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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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Ah... seems that the page I bookmarked in firefox is a bit old ;p |
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(I did some research on this myself years ago...) |
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Thanks for the correction. |
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Also, looking at the screenshot, it seems my random shot-gun guess |
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work may be correct in regards to which program it was used... |
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Best, |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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