Hey again
Well in wmii, I use terminator set to transparent so that my background
image shows through (set using 'feh' in my wmiirc). I was wondering if
there was a way to have a script running and have the output display
over the background displayed by feh and under the terminator window (or
any other window really).
I did not think this would be possible as it seems that all programs
running need a 'window'.
I looked for xrootconsole using yaourt (arch linux) and didn't find any
matches.
Thanks
B
On 03/22/2011 10:39 AM, Sean Howard wrote:
What do you mean by this?
If Conky outputs as text, you can send it's output to a constantly
updating xrootconsole (sorta hackish and not very pretty, and likely
you need to install xrootconsole) (printing out_to_console=yes and
out_to_x=no). I don't use the program myself, but I think I can see
what it does.
If something outputs to the root window of the X display, it will do
what you want.
I personally use "mpc|xrootconsole" inside my dwm loop (it's not
great, and it's not pretty, but it does the job).
You might simply want to put "watch ps -aux|xrootconsole" as a script
running in the background to keep a constantly updated mpd readout
available.
So - the answer is - yes, you can, although more information would help a lot.
On 22 March 2011 09:18, Benjamin Cathey<benja...@apocalypticfail.com> wrote:
Just curious if it is possible to run a script on the background image (sort
of conky-ish)? I'm thinking not due to the nature of wmii, however I
thought it couldn't hurt to ask.
Thanks
Benjamin
