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root-tail 0.95 (Default)

Section: Unix

Added: Thu, May 14th 1998 19:04 UTC (10 years, 5 months ago)

Updated: Thu, Jan 6th 2005 21:25 UTC (3 years, 9 months ago)

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.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
geometry now expects pixels, not characters. Locale settings for multibyte characters are respected, and proportional fonts are supported now. Several options have been added. --frame now draws the frame in exactly the right place. --shade and --outline options are taken into account properly when wrapping, clearing text, etc.

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

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

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» Popularity: 2.48% (Rank 1976)

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 1.2 07-Jan-2005 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Releases

Version Focus Date

1.2 Minor bugfixes 07-Jan-2005 05:25

1.1 Minor feature enhancements 12-Apr-2004 11:29

0.95 Major feature enhancements 01-Apr-2004 00:50

0.9 Minor feature enhancements 25-Feb-2004 15:31

0.0.10 N/A 02-Jan-2001 19:50

0.0.9 N/A 13-Nov-2000 16:19

0.0.8 N/A 12-Nov-2000 21:16

0.0.7 N/A 11-Oct-2000 14:53

0.0.6 N/A 26-May-2000 04:20

0.0.4B N/A 28-Aug-1998 06:51

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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