Re: Showing log messages on desktop

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Tom:
> * [Tuesday 30 March 2004 17:46] <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>):
> 
> > > 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. 
> 
> For Gnome, there's gdesklets.

Of course, there's XConsole.  Add "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole
-daemon -notify -exitOnFail &" to ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc


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