Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> [09-09-16 18:08]:
>> 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
>> --
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>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your posting ! :)
>
> Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
> Here it is (upper left corner):
>
> http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg
>
> By the way; For an unkown reason to me I am not
> able to download any theme from customize org.
> Is this a javascript problem? Does anyone else
> managed to download a theme from there?
>
>
>
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Definitely conky [1]... and that's a rather minimal config for it.

I use a slightly modified version of the triple setup down at the
bottom of that page [2], and it gives me at-a-glance info on just
about everything related to my little laptop.

As for downloading from customize.org, it doesn't appear to use js at
all in the download... what's the actual effect when you click one of
the d/l links?

[1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
[2] http://conky.sourceforge.net/conky-dlab.png

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