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-rw-r--r--desktop/root-tail/README10
-rw-r--r--desktop/root-tail/slack-desc12
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README
index 9318d9c39032..482a61bf5c86 100644
--- a/desktop/root-tail/README
+++ b/desktop/root-tail/README
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ 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:
+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
+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:
diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/slack-desc b/desktop/root-tail/slack-desc
index c5c3e6a67503..d328de6a724e 100644
--- a/desktop/root-tail/slack-desc
+++ b/desktop/root-tail/slack-desc
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
root-tail: root-tail (tail for the X root window)
-root-tail:
+root-tail:
root-tail: Displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e. it is
root-tail: kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background as
root-tail: output window.
-root-tail:
+root-tail:
root-tail: Homepage: http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html
-root-tail:
-root-tail:
-root-tail:
-root-tail:
+root-tail:
+root-tail:
+root-tail:
+root-tail: