root-tail does not work with several desktop environments like kde, gnome and xfce. I found a modified package, which is enabled to work with xfce (tested, it works for my xfce4). http://www.tobert.org/unix/root-tail-xpenguins.tar.gz Could someone incorporate these modifications into gentoo?
this needs to goto whomever handles root-tail, there are tons of names in the changelog and no herd/maintainer
give root-tail-1.1 a try please. it claims to work with gnome, kde, etc.
reopen if you have a chance to try the newer version please.
I have tried it with root-tail 1.1 and it still does not work. delia root # qpkg -I -v root-tail x11-terms/root-tail-1.1 *