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Root-tail displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e.
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it is kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background
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as output window.
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It has configurable colors, fonts, wrapping, justifying, continuation
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indicators, geometry, and more and can interleave multiple files also
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making it a sort of multi-tail.
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For example:
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root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
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-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
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Note for XFCE users: You may need to explicitly specify the ID of the
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display to use it (by using the "-id" flag of root-tail). Use the xprop
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command to find the active root display, and run this through the cut
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command to strip out the ID number for insertion into the root-tail
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`-id` field.
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For example:
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root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \
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-font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' \
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-id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | awk '{ print $NF }')
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