Re: FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Martin
Hi again, thank you all for your hints. root-tail works out of the box, but for flexibility and better formatting of the output, I'll give the label-in-FvwmButton-approach a shot. Looks pretty easy going. Cheers, Martin -- fvwm3 1.0.0 (1.0.0-10-g424a650e) with support for: ReadLine, RPlay,

Re: FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Dan Espen
Martin writes: > Hi all, > > currently, I use feh to set my background image in fvwm. Now I would > like to draw text in the upper left corner (output of khal, showing > my calendar). I experimented with the --info switch of feh, but the > text block does not show up in background mode.

Re: FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, Martin wrote: Now I would like to draw text in the upper left corner (output of khal, showing my calendar). ... does not show up in background mode. Not sure what you mean by "background mode", on the root window ? I guess it could be obtained with some Style options.

Re: FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > currently, I use feh to set my background image in fvwm. Now I would > like to draw text in the upper left corner (output of khal, showing > my calendar). I experimented with the --info switch of feh, but the > text block does not show up in background mode. Moreover, this

Re: FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Dan Espen
Martin writes: > Hi all, > > currently, I use feh to set my background image in fvwm. Now I would > like to draw text in the upper left corner (output of khal, showing > my calendar). I experimented with the --info switch of feh, but the > text block does not show up in background mode.

FVWM: Draw text in background

2020-09-21 Thread Martin
Hi all, currently, I use feh to set my background image in fvwm. Now I would like to draw text in the upper left corner (output of khal, showing my calendar). I experimented with the --info switch of feh, but the text block does not show up in background mode. Moreover, this method isn't