Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread Marc Koschewski
* Carsten Haitzler [2011-02-07 08:46:44 +0900]: I like his suggestion of the transparent window with just a tail or multitail running within. I just didn't think of doing it that way. Simple and root-tail-less. And ... really ... who is ever going to use anything else that E17 once (s)he used it

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:52:57 +0800 P Purkayastha said: what he said. everything arguing over root is legacy. it is not something de's WANT to support. i made the move years ago with e17. you cant catch such rendering as rendering to root is destructive and produces just final output. the way draw

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread P Purkayastha
On 02/06/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Koschewski wrote: > the root-tail command I posted works. However, it seems to writ > text-over-text - > as if scrolling the text is turned off. So, no _real_ solution. I told you that the result could be ugly. I had used something like your command in around 2005 w

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread Marc Koschewski
the root-tail command I posted works. However, it seems to writ text-over-text - as if scrolling the text is turned off. So, no _real_ solution. Carsten, is there a way to have legacy apps such as root-tatil work in E17? Could E17 catch alternations to the X root-window and display them in a way t

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 13:29:55 +0100 Marc Koschewski said: the whole point of e making its own background window is so this isn't done - multiple clients fighting over who draws to root. i highly suggest not to do this. it WILL break. i guarantee it. there is a proper way to put things on e's deskto

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread Marc Koschewski
* P Purkayastha [2011-02-06 20:08:35 +0800]: Hey 'P' :) That one works: root-tail .xsession-errors -id `xwininfo -root -tree | grep "Enlightenment Background" | awk '{ print $1 }'` Thanks for the hint! Marc > On 02/06/2011 07:17 PM, Marc Koschewski wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > what just cam

Re: [e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread P Purkayastha
On 02/06/2011 07:17 PM, Marc Koschewski wrote: > Hey folks, > > what just came up again is that I tried to use root-tail with E17 some time > ago > but it didn't work. I'd like to use it. I know that there's 'conky' but that's > not what I'd like to run. > > Is there anyone who has root-tail runni

[e-users] root-tail ... or such

2011-02-06 Thread Marc Koschewski
Hey folks, what just came up again is that I tried to use root-tail with E17 some time ago but it didn't work. I'd like to use it. I know that there's 'conky' but that's not what I'd like to run. Is there anyone who has root-tail running or has a hint on why E17 doesn't allow to write into it's r