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

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