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Old 12-28-2010, 02:13 PM   #1
Xeratul
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Alternatives to the on-screen OSD_CAT ?


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osd_cat displays the contents of File, or standard input, in a unmanaged shaped window. The effect is similar to the on-screen display of many televisions
that would be in the packages provided by most distros? OSD_Cat is nice but bit buggy, and slow sometimes...
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:27 AM   #2
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In my experience, the first place you should look when searching for alternatives is usually your package manager. In this case, a quick apt package search turned up aosd-cat and gnome-osd.

After a few minutes of playing around with them, aosd is very similar to xosd and therefore easier to adapt to an existing script than the xml-based gnome-osd. However, for some reason I can't get true compositing transparency with aosd, although both xosd and gnome-osd work just fine. YMMV, of course.
 
  


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