Difference between revisions of "Osd cat"

Revision as of 08:11, 16 April 2020

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

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

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

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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.
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+<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." />
 Choose the font using xfontsel.