On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover
> > meino.cra...@gmx.de squawked:
> >> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> >> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> >> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> >> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
> >> the background / root window.
> >
> > It may help if you point us to the screen shot.
> >
> > But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
> > window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
> > -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
> > one for the root window :)
>
> Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, conky
> was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while
> torsmo has been discontinue upstream.
>
Ah... seems that the page I bookmarked in firefox is a bit old ;p
(I did some research on this myself years ago...)
Thanks for the correction.
Also, looking at the screenshot, it seems my random shot-gun guess
work may be correct in regards to which program it was used...
Best,
W
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