So I've seen plenty of displays of transparent logs or running logs or htop instances on what appear to be fixed areas of a desktop. I think this is something like root-tail but I can't get root-tail to work. This makes me suspect that either it's being done another way or the issue is trivial if you know how to fix it. Either could be the case.
So I tried a few of the examples:
sudo root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 /var/log/syslog,green
Example above shows no errors but also no display.
user@machine:/home/user/scripts# sudo root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font fixed /var/log/syslog,green /var/log/auth.log,red,'ALERT'
Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (ISO8859-2)
Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (ISO8859-2)
Nope. Struck out again.
Clues?