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 1MnxIb-00012e-TT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEAA5E08AA; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4DCE08AA for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnxIZ-0002tO-Fk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8GGO3Ko008305 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:03 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n8GGO3wW008302 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:03 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? Message-ID: <20090916162403.GA8062@math.princeton.edu> References: <20090916155130.GA5823@solfire> <20090916160729.GA26416@princeton.edu> 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 193f4908-8da1-4838-bd40-20840d599de8 X-Archives-Hash: ae4e006a634907072ddd35498471bef2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong > wrote: > > 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. > >=20 > > It may help if you point us to the screen shot.=20 > >=20 > > 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 righ= t > > one for the root window :) >=20 > Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, con= ky > was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while > torsmo has been discontinue upstream. >=20 Ah... seems that the page I bookmarked in firefox is a bit old ;p (I did some research on this myself years ago...) Thanks for the correction.=20 Also, looking at the screenshot, it seems my random shot-gun guess work may be correct in regards to which program it was used... Best,=20 W --=20 Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.e= du 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princet= on Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones inveni= re=20 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton