On 2009-02-19, 15:02 Robert Manea ([email protected]) wrote: > Delta wrote: > > Hi list, > Hey. > > > > Does someone know an easy way to make slock print a message (like "I am on > > a meeting" or "I'll be back at 17:00") over its black screen? > > I think nobody talk about this in the list and it seems to me that it would > > be a good functionality. > > > Well, I did exactly this 2 years ago but as I don't use slock any more I > never > cared to update that patch to the current version. > > Anyways, you can find a version including that feature (and also echoing > '*' > on password input) here: http://gotmor.googlepages.com/slock.tar.bz2 > > Should be relatively easy to adapt to the current version.... > > Regards, > > > > Delt > Bye, Rob. >
Many thanks Robert, it's just what I was looking for. The appearance is so elegant. I have modified it a little to make it accept the string to be printed with the option -t. Maybe one day I will adapt it to the slock tip version but for the moment this is perfect for me. Kind Regards, Delta
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