[SOLVED] tail system logs on desktops root window

[jankushka]

hi all.

i'd like to have a "tail -f" of my system's log (with customizable transparency) on my desktop's root window.

is there a simple way to do this?

thanks in advance.

cheers.

[dibl]

Re: tail system logs on desktops root window

Hi Jankushka -- welcome back!

The only obvious way to me would be to use a conky -- here's a guy that has done it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...ostcount=14635

[jeremy1701]

Re: tail system logs on desktops root window

hi, I found this tail plasmoid:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=118067

Not sure how good it works as I haven't tried it myself.

[jankushka]

Re: tail system logs on desktops root window

Hi Jankushka -- welcome back!

thanks.
good to be back and find the same good and helping people on the forum
it's still the best forum around.

i'll check out the conky stuff right away.
thanks for the tip.

[jankushka]

Re: tail system logs on desktops root window

hi, I found this tail plasmoid...

not a plasmoid that i was looking for...
but thanks for the tip.
keep it up, mate :-)

[jankushka]

Re: tail system logs on desktops root window

conky seems to be working well.
i put together the following script for my needs.
seems alright

# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <[URL]http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>[/URL].
#
alignment top_left
background no 
border_width 1
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont Monospace:size=10
gap_x 16
gap_y 60
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_transparent yes
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 30.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
$hr
${color grey}/var/log/messages
$hr
${color lightgrey}${exec tail --lines=55 /var/log/syslog | cat -n -E}

thanks everyone!