root window shinanigans

[popcorn]

First I'll apologise, because I know this has been asked before, but I can't find it.

On various screen grabs I've seen there *apears* to be stuff like tail -f being out-putted to the root window. I'd like to know how. Is it more likley that it's just a transparent term or is it actually updating the root window?

Ta.

[civ1492]

hmm .. you can do this with a borderless Eterm for example, but there are also a few tools around which print stuff to the root window..

http://home.online.no/~geir37/paralo....cx/root-tail/
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-ta...urceforge.net/

[popcorn]

8), cheers civ.