[mythtv-users] Full screen time display, with screen on

[Dave M G]

Dan, Brian,

Thanks for responding.

I would have to discount XScreenSaver as a resource because I've
uninstalled it on my system owing to the particulars of how I turn on
and off my screen.

The ImageMagick option seems to be one possibility, though I've
experimented and found some troubles.

1. I don't know if it can be made to time out. When I include a "diplay"
command in my script, it will stay up until manually closed.

2. I can't get it to be on top of the MythTV interface. It appears
underneath - in other words, not visible.

3. I have looked and have not found a full screen option. I can get it
to expand it's window to the maximum area of the screen, but not to be
actually full screen mode.

Here is the command I ended up with after some experimentation
(black.png is, predictably, just a black image)

display -background '#000000' -bordercolor "#000000" -backdrop
/home/mythbuntu/black.png

I haven't got as far as trying to set up text over the image. I saw on
the 'net there were some ways to script in text, but I didn't understand
where that script was stored or executed.

I'm still not totally dicounting osd_cat, as it seems to have nice time
out options and is quick. If another, non-ImageMagick option comes up to
dim, darken, or paint black over top the screen becomes available, it
still might be the best way to go.

Oh, and by the way... the "sleep" command in the script I had before is
completely superfluous. I won't go into why I thought it was necessary
because it just isn't.

-- 
Dave M G