About:
root-tail is a program that allows printing of text directly to the X11 root window wherever you choose, much like running rxvt with a pixmap background but without the hassle and with more features.

Author:
Mike Baker <mjbaker __at__ mtu __dot__ edu> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.40/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html
Tar/GZ:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/root-tail-1.2.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2	06-Jan-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] 0.0.4C
by QuMa - Oct 28th 1999 16:35:22

I made a small patch a while ago, and tried sending it to all people involved. Most bounced, and a few I just didn't hear anything from. So, I've decided to release a new version myself. I've called it 0.0.4C, and it can be downloaded on from the root-tail page.

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[»] Slowness
by QuMa - Oct 5th 1999 14:52:21

I have occassionally experienced the slowness problem, though since I upgraded to afterstep 1.7.150 and activated backingstore, I haven't had any problems... However, I am having a mixed results with the redrawing, and it seems to ignore the hight of the standard x geometry string (--geometry WxH+X+Y). Still, all in all, pretty cool stuff.

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[»] Dead link
by RC - Apr 22nd 1999 03:53:52

http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~mjbaker/ doesn't even exist!

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