From 2d67f48cd3ec35f9e0ceafa468a6329584501042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slakmagik Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:01:08 -0500 Subject: desktop/root-tail: Miscellaneous cleanups Clarify a point in the README and make it more consistent. Remove unneeded comments. Tweak strip boilerplate. Fix old-style man page handling. Signed-off-by: Robby Workman --- desktop/root-tail/README | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'desktop/root-tail/README') diff --git a/desktop/root-tail/README b/desktop/root-tail/README index 2042be2b91..aaad3d9cf9 100644 --- a/desktop/root-tail/README +++ b/desktop/root-tail/README @@ -10,14 +10,13 @@ For example: root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \ -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' -By default root-tail doesn't seem to work on XFCE. You need to -explicitly specify the ID of the display to use it (by using the "-id" -flag of root-tail). Use the xprop command to find the active root -display, and run this through the cut command to strip out the ID number -for insertion into the root-tail `-id` field. +Note for XFCE users: You may need to explicitly specify the ID of the +display to use it (by using the "-id" flag of root-tail). Use the xprop +command to find the active root display, and run this through the cut +command to strip out the ID number for insertion into the root-tail +`-id` field. -It looks a little something like this: - -root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font fixed /var/log/messages,green \ -/var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW |\ -awk '{ print $NF }') +For example: +root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green \ + -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT' \ + -id $(xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | awk '{ print $NF }') -- cgit v1.2.3