At Thu, 22 May 2025 15:41:36 -0400, Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Writing to root-window > > I can splash a graphic to X root-window. > > How do I do this with text ? > Especially, how to stick the text on top > of a graphic that is on the root-window?
I presume you want an application to do this, not C code, or?
You can write the text onto (maybe a copy of) the image with something
like magick (from ImageMagick).
Then update the root window with the new image (using xli, or xv, or
display (from ImageMagick)).
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