on-screen display program/command?

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 1:56 pm, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Under Mandrake, which I used for many years, I used to occasionally
> use a command-line program that could place user-defined text on the
> KDE screen. I can't recall what it was called, and now I find myself
> needing to do the same thing under Kubuntu.

You're probably thinking of KDialog or Xdialog.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre