programs and display them on the screen using libxosd. Unlike other such
daemons, it handles message attributes (like colors), keeps its eye on
message timing and uses X properties to pass messages, so it works over SSH
-connections with X forwarding.
+connections with X forwarding (however, you need to use "ssh -Y" instead of
+"ssh -X" with newer versions of OpenSSH).
I have developed osdd on Linux, but it should work on any recent POSIX-compliant
system equipped with libX11 and libxosd.
the current status of laptop batteries. It can be asked
to show status immediately or to run in background and
croak whenever the battery is low.
+
+osd-alsa Adjust volume of an ALSA mixer channel. Also written in C.