Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:43:04PM +0300, E&Erdem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. > > Is there a document or how-to about this? > > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 ke

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread
30-03-2004, 19:20, Rajesh Menon: Thanks for all reply. I think i have to work around all... Eterm -x --no-cursor -g 159x15+0+840 --scrollbar 0 --buttonbar 0 -e grc tail -n 16 -f /var/log/messages & This is what i want. xconsole doesn't transparent (as i see), i have not tried gdesklets, but i ha

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
E&Erdem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. > > Is there a document or how-to about this? > > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. In gdm's Xsetup file, try adding this lin

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:43, E&Erdem wrote: > Hi, > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. 1. apt-get install xosd 2. addgroup adm # to be able to read logs as a user 3. Execute something like this everytime X starts:

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Tom: > * [Tuesday 30 March 2004 17:46] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > > > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is > > > this possible? I've heard something like this. > > > > I think there is a software for KDE called Karamba that can do this. > > > > > I use Gn

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Julius Plenz
* E&Erdem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-30 18:05]: > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is > this possible? I've heard something like this. Of course: $ apt-cache search root-tail root-tail - Displays select log files in the X root window Julius -- Julius Plenz, <[E

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Rajesh Menon
http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/prm225/img/scrshot/ set read perms for all on /var/log/messages, and put this in ~/.xsession: Eterm -x --no-cursor -g 159x15+0+840 --scrollbar 0 --buttonbar 0 -e grc tail -n 16 -f /var/log/messages & I use eterm and grc. On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Tom wrote: > * [Tuesday 30 Mar

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Tom
* [Tuesday 30 March 2004 17:46] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is > > this possible? I've heard something like this. > > I think there is a software for KDE called Karamba that can do this. > > > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello E&Erdem (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. I think there is a software for KDE called Karamba that can do this. > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. You could b

Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread
Hi, I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this possible? I've heard something like this. Is there a document or how-to about this? I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Thanks now... -- __