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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:23:26 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Root Window under X?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904262122370.252-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904261958450.252-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ben J. Cohen wrote:

>>I recall reading somewhere that it is possible to run Netscape in the root
>>window under X.  (I can't find the original reference.)
>>Is it possible to run an arbitrary application in the root window?

>On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:
>
>>There is a program called roottail that you can display any file you want
>>superimposed on the root window.  It *might* be in the ports collection.

>It isn't in the ports collection but it is available as an RPM in the SuSE
>Linux distribution.  Does anyone know whether Roottail has a homepage with
>the source in?  (Otherwise I'll have to try and extract the source from
>SPM and get it to work...)

Ah, for the record the home page is:

http://208.240.253.47/root-tail/

(Search for "root tail" not "roottail" on freshmeat.)

Thanks,

Ben.



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