on-screen display program/command?

[Donn]

Doc,
Did a search for 'osd' (on screen display). May help:
~:$ acs osd
iproute - Professional tools to control the networking in Linux kernels
alsaplayer-xosd - PCM player designed for ALSA (osd version)
hotkeys - A hotkeys daemon for your Internet/multimedia keyboard in X
iproute-dev - Development package for iproute
libcos4-dev - omniORB4 - CORBA ORB - libcos4 - developer files
libcos4c2 - omniORB4 - CORBA ORB - libcos4
libxosd-dev - X On-Screen Display library - development
libxosd2 - X On-Screen Display library - runtime
licq-plugin-osd - on-screen display plug-in for Licq
lineak-xosdplugin - LinEAK On-Screen Display plugin
ltp - The Linux Test Project test suite
ltp-dev - development files for Linux Test Project
ltp-tools - Utilities for running the Linux Test Project test suite
osdclock - Clock using the XOSD library
osdsh - Overlays your screen with various system information
python-osd - Python bindings for X On-Screen Display library
python2.4-osd - Python bindings for X On-Screen Display library
quodlibet-plugins - various contributed plugins for Quod Libet
tpb - program to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys
vdr-plugin-console - Plugin for vdr that implements a virtual terminal
vdr-plugin-dvd - Plugin to vdr for playing DVD's
vdr-plugin-examples - Plugins for vdr to show some possible features
vdr-plugin-games - Plugin to vdr for playing tetris, snake and others
vdr-plugin-osdteletext - Teletext plugin for vdr
xmms-osd-plugin - XMMS plugin using xosd
xosd-bin - X On-Screen Display library - binary files
mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer
amarok - versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE

A python thingy in there - could be cool.
hth
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