XOSD
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV on-screen display. It also contains an XMMS plugin and a simple example program that can display system logs overlaid on your desktop.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL GPL |
Recent releases
- 04 Nov 2006 02:10
Changes: Many bugs were fixed. Beep Media Player support was added.
- 13 Sep 2004 20:40
Changes: Some minor bugfixes and a speed increase were made.
- 26 Aug 2004 21:17
Changes: This release fixes a bug in alignment. A lot of submitted patches were applied.
- 04 Jul 2004 21:23
Changes: The underlying drawing code has been sped up. osd_cat now supports scroll bars and percentages.
- 07 Jun 2004 08:35
Changes: This version contains a complete rewrite of timeout_func to avoid causing lineakd to use 100% of the CPU time.
- All comments
Recent commentsGreat program, but...
Mouse clicks directed at the text do not pass through to the window below, as would be desirable in most cases.
Even with that limitation, however, this method of message display is almost infinitely less offensive than "pop up" windows which steal the keyboard focus and force you to acknowledge them before they disappear.
pretty cool
Pretty cool concept.
I set up a little alert script that I use to
display new log entries onto the scren.
#!/bin/sh
tail -f /var/log/messages | osd_cat -b -o 50 -c
green -f
"-abisource-arial-regular-r-normal-*-*-200-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"