On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC wrote:

>One of my co-workers has an app for CommieOS (aka, Linux) that sets the root X
>window to a background jpeg image, and then transparetly scrolls console message
>ontop of if the background.  I'm sure it could be compiled to run elsewhere.

roottail?  Under FreeBSD it's available as /usr/ports/sysutils/roottail.
It could easily be added to the pkgsrc collection if one desired.

Brandon D. Valentine
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