From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mnx1t-0006MW-Vi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:06:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06062E077F; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB127E077F for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8GG6mHF009749 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n8GG6l63018741 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 478C8EF25A; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? Message-ID: <20090916160729.GA26416@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090916155130.GA5823@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090916155130.GA5823@solfire> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: bd0e8deb-e73e-481a-ac9f-9d8d8a62d59f X-Archives-Hash: ea26bac2351948484340cbf975d434cf On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked: > on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) ) > I came across a lot of screenshots of themes. > More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a > system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto > the background / root window. It may help if you point us to the screen shot. But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right one for the root window :) http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php W -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53