QOSD for python
Project description
qosd - display text over your Xorg screen
qosd
is a command-line tool and python library can display text over your Linux desktop screen:
- text is displayed over any window (On-Screen-Display)
- display simple line
- tail stdin
- transparency and text style is configurable
Install
pip install qosd
Usage
usage: qosd [-h] [-i] [-m MAXLINES] [-n SESSION_NAME] [-o OPACITY] [-p {topleft,topright,bottomleft,bottomright,center,centerleft,centerright}] [-P POSITION_OFFSET POSITION_OFFSET] [-s STYLE] [-t TIMEOUT] text [text ...]
qosd - display text over your Xorg screen - v20230529
positional arguments:
text text to display, or '-' for stdin
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --no-input set window transparent to input
-m MAXLINES, --maxlines MAXLINES
default: 30
-n SESSION_NAME, --session-name SESSION_NAME
start named OSD display session, killing previous OSD with same session name
-o OPACITY, --opacity OPACITY
default: 1.0
-p {topleft,topright,bottomleft,bottomright,center,centerleft,centerright}, --position {topleft,topright,bottomleft,bottomright,center,centerleft,centerright}
text position, default=topleft
-P POSITION_OFFSET POSITION_OFFSET, --position-offset POSITION_OFFSET POSITION_OFFSET
offset in pixels from position, default: 0 0
-s STYLE, --style STYLE
default: 'color:"#FFFFFF";background-color:"#99000000";font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;'
-t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
display timeout in seconds, default: 3
examples:
$ qosd hello
$ tail -f /var/log/{messages,auth.log} | qosd -
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