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14.0 > Desktop > root-tail (1.2)

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.

For example:
root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'

Note for XFCE users: You may 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.

For example:
root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' \
-id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | awk '{ print $NF }')

Maintained by: slakmagik
Keywords: tail,tail -f
ChangeLog: root-tail

Homepage:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html

Source Downloads:
root-tail-1.2.tar.gz (5a4b3c4c7ab3bed1f4575e9688aac5de)

Download SlackBuild:
root-tail.tar.gz
root-tail.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

(the SlackBuild does not include the source)

Individual Files:
README
root-tail.SlackBuild
root-tail.info
slack-desc

Validated for Slackware 14.0

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