====== Desktopish excuse for a blogpost ======

As I currently don't have much to blog about (yet), and I found taking a look at the desktops of [[http://www.chimeric.de/blog/2008/0924_my_current_desktop|chimeric]] and [[http://the-gay-bar.com/index.php?/archives/194-My-current-desktop/|Tante]] rather interesting, I thought I might as well throw mine into the mix as well and lose some words about it ;-)

So first of all -- my current desktop on my main workstation at home:

{{ :blog:media:20080927-desktop-ripley.png?700 |}}

As you can see, I'm still enjoying my daily dosage of [[wp>Portal_(video_game)|Portal]] references((TBH, I even got an Aperture Science mug for the occasional tea or hot chocolate =))).

On the left hand side you can see a (blurred) terminal showing a ''tail'' of both my Syslog as well as ''~/.xsession-errors''. This way I don't miss important stuff when it's happening. The combined log is piped through [[http://www.nongnu.org/regex-markup/|regex-markup]] or short ''remark'' to give it some color in a small shellscript (''/home/gina/bin/showlog''):

<code bash>
#!/bin/bash

tail -q -F /var/log/syslog ~/.xsession-errors | remark ~/.remark/syslog | cacheline
</code>

The rules file for ''remark'' is mostly the same as the one provided in ''examples/rules/syslog'' from the regex-markup source tarball.

I used [[http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie|Devil's Pie]] ([[linux:devilspie|naturally]] ;-)) to make the ROXTerm terminal window as close to being a part of the desktop as possible using the following rules:

<code lisp>
(if
        (is (window_name) "syslog")
        (begin
                (skip_pager)
                (skip_tasklist)
                (pin)
                (undecorate)
                (geometry "+0+0")
                (maximize_vertically)
                (below)
        )
)
</code>

and this ROXTerm profile:

<code>
[roxterm profile]
cursor_blinks=0
login_shell=0
update_records=1
hide_menubar=1
scroll_on_output=1
scroll_on_keystroke=1
width=72
use_custom_command=1
exit_action=1
command=sudo /home/gina/bin/showlog
background_type=2
saturation=0.990000
scrollbar_pos=0
title_string=syslog
</code>

And yes, I'm a very happy user of [[http://xfce.org|Xfce]] :-)

{{tag>desktop tool logging remark linux}}

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