Startup Programs - a new quest in life

[James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>]

Hi all,

Well, I've been trying to make a transparent Eterm appear when X starts up
tail-ing /var/log/messages to appear on my desktop, and have been putting
this into Startup Programs as:

Eterm -O --shade=60%
 --font='-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1'
-g=80x8+0+855 -x --scrollbar=0 --menubar=0 -e tail -f /var/log/messages

but as soon as I ok it, the geometry is lost and when I log back in again,
Startup Programs has lost the entry altogether.

Any ideas?

Gnome control-center: Gnome desktop-manager 1.0.5
Gnome-core: Gnome panel 1.0.9
Gnome-libs: gnome-libs 1.0.10
Gnome-objc: 1.0.2

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James Green
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