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slakmagik 2d67f48cd3 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>
2011-03-01 09:17:05 -06:00
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README desktop/root-tail: Miscellaneous cleanups 2011-03-01 09:17:05 -06:00
root-tail.info Various: updated maintainer email address 2010-07-03 15:52:10 -05:00
root-tail.SlackBuild desktop/root-tail: Miscellaneous cleanups 2011-03-01 09:17:05 -06:00
slack-desc Various: whitespace cleanups 2010-07-03 15:52:10 -05:00

README 

Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e.
it is kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background
as output window.

It has configurable colors, fonts, wrapping, justifying, continuation
indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also
making 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'

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.

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 }')