Re: root-tail and kde
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2002 18:11 schrieb Jarno Elonen:
> > I was going to use root-tail to put a TODO list on my background. Does
> > anyone know of a program that will render an ascii file to an image that
> > can be used by this?
>
> Something like...
>
> TMPFILE = `tempfile`.ps
> enscript -p $TMPFILE TODO.txt
> convert $TMPFILE TODO.png
> rm $TMPFILE
>
> ...could do it. You need packages 'enscript' and 'imagemagick'. It may also
> be possible to do this directly with imagemagick, but I've never tried.
>
> - Jarno
Or you compose youself a html page with you wanted background, and put your
todo in front of the background image. Then you use kwebdesktop to generate
a png from that.
With php you could grab some more stuff for that page (like weather...).
Max
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