desktop/root-tail: Miscellaneous cleanups

Clarify a point in the README and make it more consistent. Remove
unneeded comments. Tweak strip boilerplate. Fix old-style man page
handling.

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README
index 2042be2b91..aaad3d9cf9 100644
--- a/desktop/root-tail/README
+++ b/desktop/root-tail/README
@@ -10,14 +10,13 @@ For example:
 root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
   -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
 
-By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to
-explicitly specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id"
-flag of root-tail). Use the xprop command to find the active root
-display, and run this through the cut command to strip out the ID number
-for insertion into the root-tail `-id` field.
+Note for XFCE users: You may need to explicitly specify the ID of the
+display to use it (by using the "-id" flag of root-tail). Use the xprop
+command to find the active root display, and run this through the cut
+command to strip out the ID number for insertion into the root-tail
+`-id` field.
 
-It looks a little something like this:
-
-root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font fixed /var/log/messages,green \
-/var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW |\
-awk '{ print $NF }')
+For example:
+root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
+  -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' \
+  -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | awk '{ print $NF }')