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diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README index 482a61bf5c86..2042be2b9173 100644 --- a/desktop/root-tail/README +++ b/desktop/root-tail/README @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ -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. +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. +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' -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. +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: |