Timothy Pick wrote:
Can you use gd to create a background image from cal input? I take it you're looking at webshotesque functionality?
Steve
Thanks both you guys,
XOSD not exactly what I was looking for (it prints overtop of everything on screen). Still thinking about gd. Probably unneccessary to convert it to an image and display it when I can just display plain text, nifty program though.
I've found a program "root-tail" that seems to work for me, kinda. I can use the following:
cal |root-tail -
to get a calendar printed to my desktop once, but now I have to find/think of a way to get it updating.
Something to the effect of (pseudo-code):
while(true){
cal |root-tail -
sleep(10);
}
Does it sound a good idea to set up a cron job (I've heard of it but never used it) and make that run cal and output it to a file, then have root-tail (loaded in my .xinitrc) reading that file?
Cheers, Tim
