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Subject: Re: 'top' running on X desktop?  How?
From: Steve Borho <steve@borho.myip.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:08:02 -0600


On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:36:17PM -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> There are several ways of doing this...
> 
> Roottail was one that attempted this, but is more commonly replaced by using
> Eterm.
> 
> Eterm has an option which permits it to "display" the desktop background in
> the Eterm itself.
> 
> Using the command line switches, you can disable all borders & menus leaving
> you with an xterm on the desktop... in which you can in turn run your
> apps...

This also requires using a window manager that can be told to not add any
decorations to the transparent window (like a title bar, resize bars, etc)

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