Excellent idea! Being able to move the window would have nailed a 4-star rating.

I get it at 20% opacity by default. BTW, very nice job! This is quite useful. :D

Tobias: Because the widget defaults to the desktop level, you have to get to the preferences through the gear menu (read the ReadMe). You can't move it -- it will default to filling the entire screen upon launch. I like the opacity down at around 20%. It's supposed to be around 20% by default but I think it's not actually working like that for some reason.

Dave: thanks for the tip. That won't become part of the widget (too much work!) but it's a good idea if anyone needs to hack it.

If nothing else, it make your desktop look tre chic if you lower the opacity down two thirds. Nice job.

Nice one Daniel.

One problem though. If your main login doesn't have superuser privileges, then you can't view the system log files. You can circumvent this if you've setup direct ssh access to your admin account from your current account (by copying your ~<loginname>/.ssh/id_dsa.pub details into ~admin/.ssh/authorized_keys2)

Once you do that, you can change your runcommand in the script to include "ssh -l admin <machinehostname> ...". eg:

"ssh -l a…dmin localhost '/usr/bin/tail -r -n100 ' " + theFile

(pay attention to the single quotes ('))

This will essentially ssh into your admin account (as admin user) and tail the system.log file (or any other file that requires su access). Works like a treat :) More