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 1MnxDe-0000Em-Pe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F9CDE084E; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm1.telefonica.net (impaqm1.telefonica.net [213.4.129.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B028E0885 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm1.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id hRAS1c00W2iL0W201UJvYz; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:18:55 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id hUG31c0033XLmEe1kUG4jc; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:16:10 +0200 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" 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 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:18:47 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow =?UTF-8?Q?Sysmon=3F?= In-Reply-To: <20090916160729.GA26416@princeton.edu> References: <20090916155130.GA5823@solfire> <20090916160729.GA26416@princeton.edu> Message-ID: X-Sender: i92guboj@terra.es User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c73f3aa5-3730-45b8-82a5-01a8bbc84270 X-Archives-Hash: a3734d78c67ca0dff2773e021302e7aa 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 right > one for the root window :) Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, conky was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while torsmo has been discontinue upstream. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero