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author slakmagik <jsun@freeshell.org>2010-05-13 00:23:09 +0200
committer David Somero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-13 00:23:09 +0200
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desktop/root-tail: Updated for version 1.2
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@@ -9,3 +9,15 @@ it a sort of multi-tail.
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.
+
+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 }')