Difference between revisions of "Osd cat"

Latest revision as of 08:11, 16 April 2020

osd_cat writing 'hello world' directly on the screen. Note how it ignores window frames.

osd_cat is a command that writes something directly onto your graphical screen. In the following example "hello world" is written.

Choose the font using xfontsel.

The following example worked on SUSE Linux 11.3 <source>

yast -i xosd
echo "hello world" | osd_cat -A center -p bottom -f \
 -adobe-helvetica-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -cgreen -s 5

</source>

The following example worked on Ubutu Linux 11.10 <source>

sudo apt-get install osd_cat
echo "hello world" | osd_cat -A center -p bottom -f -*-*-bold-*-*-*-36-120-*-*-*-*-*-* -cgreen -s 5

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-osd_cat is a [[command]] that writes something directly onto your graphical screen. In the following example "hello world" is written. The example is based on SUSE Linux 11.3, but should be same or similar on any distribution:
+<pic src=http://www.linuxintro.org/images/Snapshot-osdcat.png width=30% align=right caption="osd_cat writing 'hello world' directly on the screen. Note how it ignores window frames." />
-  [[yast]] -i xosd
-  [[echo]] "hello world" | osd_cat -A center -p bottom -f \
+osd_cat is a [[command]] that writes something directly onto your graphical screen. In the following example "hello world" is written.
+Choose the font using xfontsel.
+The following example worked on SUSE Linux 11.3
+<source>
+  yast -i xosd
+  echo "hello world" | osd_cat -A center -p bottom -f \
    -adobe-helvetica-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -cgreen -s 5
-Choose the font using xfontsel.
+</source>
+The following example worked on Ubutu Linux 11.10
+<source>
+ sudo apt-get install osd_cat
+ echo "hello world" | osd_cat -A center -p bottom -f -*-*-bold-*-*-*-36-120-*-*-*-*-*-* -cgreen -s 5
+</source>