[NBLUG/talk] Printing to X

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:28:49AM -0800, Nat W. wrote:
> 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.)

OSD.

http://ldots.org/xosd-guide/

Used (optionally) by other apps to do exactly what you want.  There's
"esd_cat" that seems to be the command-line to do it.
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