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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) ===