<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donn</b> <<a href="mailto:donn.ingle@gmail.com">donn.ingle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Doc,<br>Did a search for 'osd' (on screen display). May help:<br>~:$ acs osd<br>osdsh - Overlays your screen with various system information<br></blockquote></div><br>Very nice, Donn. Here is what "aptitude show osdsh" returns:
<br><br>Package: osdsh<br>State: not installed<br>Version: 0.7.0-8<br>Priority: optional<br>Section: universe/x11<br>Maintainer: Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:nomeata@debian.org">nomeata@debian.org</a>><br>Uncompressed Size: 201k
<br>Depends: tk8.4 | wish, libapm1 (>= 3.2.0-7), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libxosd2 (>= 2.2.13)<br>Description: Overlays your screen with various system information<br> OSDsh is a a little program that overlays system information using the XOSD library. OSDsh was
<br> originally based on osdd and provides features like:<br><br> * It is able to display a clock.<br> * Shows the volume levels of the soundcard when changing.<br> * Tells you if you are on- or off-line, and the time you were connected.
<br> * Shows the battery status and<br> * shows any message you want it to.<br><br>Sounds perfect for the OP<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own