On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Thomas Bishop wrote:
Anyone gotten root-tail to display on their desktop? I use (after su) root-tail -f -g 80x25 -100-100 /var/log/messages. Worked with KDE1.1.2 but not 2.0. Kinda liked seeing what was going on. I get no error message, and ps aux shows it's running, but nothing on my desktop.
The root-tail package works fine, but you simply can't see it's output anymore, because KDE2 changed the way the root window is being handled. Actually KDE2 does not use the root window anymore, they use a separate window on top of the root window (without borders) to display the icons and the background. There was a way to disable this feature, but I don't remember it, sorry. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.