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Reformatted all of my READMEs that weren't wrapped at column 72. Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e.
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it is kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background
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as output window.
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It has configurable colors, fonts, wrapping, justifying, continuation
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indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also
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making it a sort of multi-tail.
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For example:
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root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
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-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
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By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to
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explicitly specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id"
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flag of root-tail). Use the xprop command to find the active root
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display, and run this through the cut command to strip out the ID number
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for insertion into the root-tail `-id` field.
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It looks a little something like this:
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root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font fixed /var/log/messages,green \
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/var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW |\
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awk '{ print $NF }')
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