[PLUG] Formatting Zenity output

Keith Lofstrom keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Wed Apr 24 06:48:16 UTC 2013


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:22:15PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> What else can be used to make a window pop up containing six columns of
> text x 35 rows and nothing else?

Is this the same text each time?  Like the tables of unicode
to linguistic symbols that grace the sides of your laptop?

You can use many different tools to draw a fixed png image -
which you can make your desktop background, replicated along
the top and bottom and sides.  So rather than making something
pop up, you can temporarily shrink a foreground window and 
look at a portion of the background image.  Damned simple
compared to writing a program, and platform-independent.

A tastefully-done screen-sized background image of linguistic
symbols would be welcomed by linguists everywhere, and get
you invited to All The Best Parties.

Keith

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