look for xosd ( X On Screen Display)
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 16:33, Timothy Pick wrote: > Hi all, > > What I want to do is print the output from 'cal' to the background of my > X session, since I use openbox and there is not much on the desktop, I > thought it's a good place to have a calendar. > > What I've found is a program xtail > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtail/) that kinda does what I want but > not quite. It emulates behaviour of 'tail -f' > > I just want to put something like 'cal |theprogram' in my .xinitrc. > Probably would be nice to get it updating now and then too. > > Anyone heard of this kind of thing or have suggestions on how to achieve > this? Should I get out my hacking gloves? > > Tim
