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Originally posted by The Jimmy James:
cocoa... just one question...
what the HELL is up with your desktop?!?!
You have a console stream over the wallpaper?
Your Dock goes across the bottom... AND the side of the screen?!?
I must know how!!!!!
It's called
Desktop Console.
It will display your console or any log (like your ftp log) on top of your desktop picture, and it runs in the background. You can even have multiple consoles and logs in different areas of your desktop. For instance, I can have my console starting at coordinates 0,0 at a size of 768x450, and my ftp log at coordinates 0, 450 at a size of 768X450, so both are displayed simultaneously and updated dynamically in my choice of fonts and colors.
MANY times I have pinpointed problems I would never have spotted, because whenever I opened an app with a problem, by desktop console immediately shows me what happened on my desktop.
If someone tries to hack me, I'm immediately aware because the FTP log immediately shows and attempted connection.
It's pretty nice.
The dock, well, when you have magnification cranked all the way up (like when I want to take a peek at a movie minimized in the dock, as shown), it pushes the other dock items over temporarily.