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deadlylife

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 120

Dynamyc text wallpaper?

I am using the Awesome window manager. How would I set my wallpaper to be a certain Bible verse/quote that would be generated dynamically with custom fg/bg colors?
Could I run a bash script with a urxvt terminal as my background?

djnm

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 78

Re: Dynamyc text wallpaper?

You could write a script to output the verse/quote and put it into conky (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky).
Just set your background to a solid color and then configure your conky to your liking.

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deadlylife

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 120

Re: Dynamyc text wallpaper?

Isn't conky bloaty?

djnm

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 78

Re: Dynamyc text wallpaper?

Not really.

~/ add conky
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): conky-1.6.1-2  

Total Download Size:    0.10 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.24 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Very small install and does not use much ram.

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fukawi2

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Re: Dynamyc text wallpaper?

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 
14575 phillips  20   0 12232 1828 1084 S    0  0.1  21:22.98 conky

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robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

Re: Dynamyc text wallpaper?

you could also write a script to put text onto an image using imagemagick

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