XWatch is a small program that I wrote to monitor logfiles and to see
any changes directly (instead of having to read all the logs after a
breakin or a crash). XWatch is simply started with a few file
arguments, and any information that appears on the files is displayed.
With a slider you can see past information; i.e., lines that scroll in
xwatch's window. That's all there is to it. The appearance of the
xwatch window can furthermore be modified via command line flags or
via an application defaults file. (Older versions of XWatch had a
button to activate an `options' window. I removed this code, almost no-one
uses it.)
XWatch is incidentally my first applications with the XForms GUI
library for X, which I can highly recommend for developers who want to
start `X programming' but who don't want to go through the hassle of
having to learn about intrinsics. XForms is really excellent. Congrats,
T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars (the latter is rumored to bootleg at a soccer
club in his free time ;). Instructions on where and how to get the XForms
library are in the Makefile, contained in xwatch's distribution.
Debian maintainer note: XWatch doesn't have an active upstream maintainer. If you are interested in taking over this package, please see the file /usr/share/doc/xwatch/README.debian