[xubuntu-users] Terminal on the root window?

[Len Philpot]

Thisis more general than just Xubuntu, but there may be specifics, so 
I'll ask here...

I'd like to run a preferably transparent terminal on the (desktop) root 
window that I can see, but not touch. There are plenty of 
transparent-capable terminals out there, that's not the problem. But how 
to get one to dynamically run on the desktop, stay beneath ALL windows 
in the Z order, accept no keyboard nor mouse input and not show up in 
the panel, pager, task switcher, etc.?

In days of old (Solaris 2.51) there was one there by default, running 
'tail -f /var/adm/messages'. FWIW, I'd like to run 'top', but that may 
change.I realize there are various GUI tools that may do something 
similar, but a terminal is more flexible.

I've Googled, but so far no real luck...

Thanks.

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*Len Philpot* lphilpot01 at gmail.com <mailto:lphilpot01 at gmail.com>
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