On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover > meino.cra...@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 :)
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. -- Jesús Guerrero
