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 1Mnyz9-0005qm-Vd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:12:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74A73E08BA; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f175.google.com (mail-vw0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF2BE08BD for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws5 with SMTP id 5so3146010vws.32 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:12:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=2xJv6Fe5lpvvDPJALQXKaFnSp4pmiQnIg7SrRorTWNI=; b=mJZB3foRLT6RBYsk+PA38u4o/T2UYZhGSGBlCzEtIo0Akz00ej2zsBCS3Gxy69LnY3 gdRsxeZA9d6XUYop08060Kr+jvBn+9CsugUYdZVM9+ndtEMp3mrUxjS8/IMprnuBIhMX zIMi5np9EQLx95s0ceIaRJLwVU2QZsQ+x6Odo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jfr2nPpdwlVp5sJCqCt7OyqhyowlZzizRIexJKvijwyQxf31eX+ivWtIO5zw1hSNCE EPTffU4pGVP0S+7ORlp1ennDV4ZlJEkYiiaSHlAJNgp+El4I3SnD/+TBgwWhdYBDqr4c 3Tta7p+wbwzjfQAiG0l5p98pA760tMxifYnQ8= 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 Received: by 10.220.79.140 with SMTP id p12mr12924026vck.57.1253124722003; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:12:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090916161654.GB5823@solfire> References: <20090916155130.GA5823@solfire> <20090916160729.GA26416@princeton.edu> <20090916161654.GB5823@solfire> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:12:01 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon? From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 9eb7a746-4da4-433b-9a59-1105c01995f5 X-Archives-Hash: e2575c5b13b6de8dafc261e2fa941300 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM, wrote: > Willie Wong [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 >> -- >> A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. >> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53 > > 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? > > > > -- > Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments > unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows. > 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 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy