osdsh(1)

osdsh1

Overlays your screen with various system informations

Usage

osdsh [options]

Overview

osdsh is a a little program that overlays system information using the XOSD library. OSDsh was originally based on osdd but got some features added, like:

* It is able to display a clock.
* Shows the volume levels of the soundcard whenever they change.
* Tells you if you are on- or off-line, and the time you were connected.
* Shows the battery status and
* shows any message you want it to.

osdsh forks to the background when started and should be started in the user's session scripts (like ~/.xsession)

Options

-h

Show summary of options.

-m mixer

Set mixer device. (Default: /dev/mixer)

-f font

Set font (Default: -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*)

-c color

Set color (Default: green)

-d int

Set OSD delay (Default: 5)

-o int

Set shadow offset (Default: 1)

-p <0|1>

Position of the osd: 0 for top, 1 for bottom. (Default: 1 (bottom))

-a <0|1|2>

align of the osd: left, center or right

-n number

set the nice number so osdsh won't eat your cpu

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–12

Author

This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From osdsh 0.7.0-11+b1 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.