Can anyone tell me how to get root-tail to work with kde2 ? thanks dids
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:04:58PM +0100, dids beat on the keyboard:
Can anyone tell me how to get root-tail to work with kde2 ?
thanks dids
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On Thursday 12 April 2001 10:29 pm, Robert Sweet wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:04:58PM +0100, dids beat on the keyboard:
Can anyone tell me how to get root-tail to work with kde2 ?
thanks dids
You can use sux from an xterm and then put an & on the command and exit.
I just tried this and no joy. Even though it is running according to ps, I get nada on my desktop. This is with the newer rpm, too. Must be another factor involved. I keep hoping someone will have the answer, but nothing's worked yet. I miss it. -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net RLU #12043 SuSE 7.1 PRO
The way KDE2 manipulates the root window and draws backgrounds to it..messes with root-tail, so for now..it doesn't work. :/ * TRBishop (tb64710@alltel.net) [010413 17:06]: => =>I just tried this and no joy. Even though it is running according to ps, I =>get nada on my desktop. This is with the newer rpm, too. Must be another =>factor involved. I keep hoping someone will have the answer, but nothing's =>worked yet. I miss it. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Can anyone tell me how to get root-tail to work with kde2 ?
You can use sux from an xterm and then put an & on the command and exit.
I just tried this and no joy. Even though it is running according to ps, I get nada on my desktop. This is with the newer rpm, too. Must be another factor involved. I keep hoping someone will have the answer, but nothing's worked yet. I miss it.
KDE2 covers the root window with one of it's own (so it can put icons etc on the 'desktop'). This obscures root-tail, xsnow, xearth and all the others that work by writing to the root window. They still work, you just can't see what they are doing. There's no fix and there isn't likely to be one any time soon. The subject was discussed on the KDE developers list, but no solution seems possible. I understand that the next version of GNOME will use the same technique as KDE-2 so GNOME users will be howling about this one in a few months!
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Ben Rosenberg
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Derek Fountain
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dids
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Robert Sweet
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TRBishop