[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#463523: program as background

[Mike Massonnet]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:28:23AM +0100, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:44:02AM +0100, Matthias Krüger wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> > It would be nice if the program "top" could be used as background.
> 
> root-tail is your friend.  There are other tools aswell, like conky.
> 
> Here is a glimpse of a command to get you started with root-tail:
> 
>     top -b -u $UID | root-tail --id $(xprop --root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW|cut -d\  -f5)

And that command is wrong :)  It misses some bits:

    top -b -u $UID | root-tail --id $(xprop --root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW|cut -d\  -f5) -

The - at the end, so it takes the output of the command passed through
the pipe as the file.

> As you can see the only tricky part is the id of the xfdesktop window.
> You can of course replace top with a ps output and so on.  Btw, if the
> lines are too long you can cut them through a pipe like with cut -c 1-60
> for instance.
> 
> Enjoy the root-tail manual.
> 
> As to conclude, this is not a request for xfdesktop IMHO.
> 
> > Thank you for your fine work! 	 Matthias Krüger
> 
> HTH,
> mike