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diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..14d5a160df --- /dev/null +++ b/desktop/root-tail/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e. it is +kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background as output +window. + +It has configurable colors, fonts, wrapping, justifying, continuation +indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also making +it a sort of multi-tail. + +For example: +root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \ + -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' |