[NBLUG/talk] Printing to X

[Nat W.]

While that sounds fantastic, I can not find xsri in apt or on my machine
(Ubuntu 6.10). 

The other problem is I do not want to write to the root window. I have found
root-tail does that, but the issue is that I need to write above all of that
because an image display program is running. 

What I really need is text with no background at the very top most layer of
my screen (so basically above all windows and running applications.)

I was just thinking though, if there were a command line way to add text to
an image then I could possibly use that.

Thanks guys,
/Nat 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
> Scott Doty
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:03 AM
> To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Printing to X
> 
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:05:39AM -0800, Nat W. wrote:
> > so what can I run that I can at least print the date and time, if not
> just
> > two lines of text above this image?
> 
> ah, I'd remembered there was something that prints on the root window --
> found it:
> 
>   man xsri
> 
> Does that do the trick?
> 
>  -Scott
> 
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