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Franek

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 100

[SOLVED] looking for a live maximised text display app

I am trying to find an application again which I have seen years and years back possibly on these forums.

It's a graphical presentation tool. What it does is that it opens a single X11 window and displays whatever you type into it as large as possible. That is, it changes the font size dynamically to always display the typed text in as large a font as possible, but never let any of it run off screen. It was advertised, if I recall correctly, as a tool for short announcements, when you cannot or don't want to talk over a crowd but have a digital projector set up (e.g. "talk starts at 11:20").

Does anyone know this program, what it is called and where to find it? Or an alternative maybe? Like a graphical text editor that could be configured to automatically adjust the font size this way. Or a simple scripting environment to create X11 window with properties like these.

Last edited by Franek (2020-02-01 11:39:41)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for a live maximised text display app

Have you looked in the AUR?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=fullscreen+text

There is also a web version: http://sm.nomeata.de/

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Franek

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] looking for a live maximised text display app

Amazing, that' what I meant. Thank you.

I had looked in the AUR as well (though I admittedly focused on web search), but evidently with the wrong key words, because I didn't remember screen-message to be fullscreen only.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for a live maximised text display app

You wanted a [maximised ... app], so I immediately thought of fullscreen. It is funny how you sometimes miss the most obvious links.

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