diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'desktop/root-tail/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | desktop/root-tail/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README index 14d5a160df..9318d9c390 100644 --- a/desktop/root-tail/README +++ b/desktop/root-tail/README @@ -9,3 +9,15 @@ 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' + +By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to explicitly +specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id" flag of root-tail). +Use the xprop command to find the active root display, and run this through +the cut command to strip out the ID number for insertion into the +root-tail `-id` field. + +It looks a little something like this: + +root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font fixed /var/log/messages,green \ +/var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW |\ +awk '{ print $NF }') |