As I currently don't have much to blog about (yet), and I found taking a look at the desktops of chimeric and 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:

As you can see, I'm still enjoying my daily dosage of Portal references¹⁾.

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 regex-markup or short remark to give it some color in a small shellscript (/home/gina/bin/showlog):

#!/bin/bash
 
tail -q -F /var/log/syslog ~/.xsession-errors | remark ~/.remark/syslog | cacheline

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 Devil's Pie (naturally ) to make the ROXTerm terminal window as close to being a part of the desktop as possible using the following rules:

(if
        (is (window_name) "syslog")
        (begin
                (skip_pager)
                (skip_tasklist)
                (pin)
                (undecorate)
                (geometry "+0+0")
                (maximize_vertically)
                (below)
        )
)

and this ROXTerm profile:

[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

And yes, I'm a very happy user of Xfce