Name These Apps!

|ghost| · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 2:43 pm Post subject: Name These Apps!

I'm having lots of fun running fluxbox and tweaking my desktop etc, but being a n00b in this area there's some things I've seen in screenshots that I haven't been able to track down.

http://sickest.org/images/screenshots/ss.jpg

there's the memslut theme and I'm wondering, what are those two apps on the desktop, namely how do you get that opaque terminal output in the bottom left and what kind of app is that in the long rectangular box in the right hand corner.

thnx,
ghost

metalhedd · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 2:57 pm Post subject:

the big rectangle on the right is gkrellm as for the one on the left it looks like eterm with a lot of commandline options

not suer which ones but there are options to eliminate all the borders and get a semi transparent border... beware, eterms man page is large and aggravating

MacMasta · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 9:01 pm Post subject: Righto!

The little four-box thing at the bottom right is called bbpager.
The bigger one at the upper-right is gkrellm - the most useful app ever. (tm)

The eterm command will look something like this:

Eterm -O -q -x --scrollbar-popup -e tail -f /var/log/everything/current

(note the caps)

-O is transparency, -q means "does not accept input or focus" -x means no border, --scrollbar-popup means no scrollbar unless focused (with -q means pretty much no scrollbar at all) -e is "run command" and tail -f /var/log/everything/current is a log location. Note that this will need to be run as root to see /var/log/everything/current. You can move it around with alt-click, although I suggest you pass it some geometry options instead.

~Mac~

|ghost| · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 11:44 pm Post subject:

Ok so whats the most efficient way of getting this stuff running when flux comes up? Are these things dockapps? Do they go in the slit?

thnx
|ghost|

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

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MacMasta · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 12:13 am Post subject: My guess

My guess would be that he's running the Eterm either with sudo, or using a script set suid root to do it.

~Mac~

al3x · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 47

And by the way: you can get bbpager to use your fluxbox style by creating a symbolic link from ~/.fluxbox/init to ~/.blackboxrc

KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

Update: No prob, I figured out
Lengthy manpages are not easy to peruse in detail

citizen428 · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 10:36 am Post subject: Re: bbpager question

BoBB · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:15 pm Post subject: root-tail

um that little app in the bottom right hand corner tailing the log file is a program called root-tail. It draws straight to the root desktop so it looks like its in the background but it updates in real-time. Its a real slick little app. I suggest you try it out, its in the portage tree

BoBB · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:15 pm Post subject: re: root-tail

umm ya i meant bottom left hand corner

dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

kybber · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:54 am Post subject:

I don't know why it was mentioned before that it has to be run as root to tail logs. I simply use 'root-tail -g 120x25+5+845 /var/log/syslog,green, &' in my .xinitrc. This command can also be used from a term with no problem.

dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

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