aosd_cat - displays text on the screen
Displays UTF-8 text in a transparent OSD frame.
For parameters marked with asterisk (*) valid range is 0-255.
Those, which are marked with double asterisk (**), accept negative values.
Coloring parameters are specified in either #RGB format or from rgb.txt.
Timing parameters are specified in milliseconds. Scrollback limits are
cancelled with 0 parameter. Age is in seconds.
- Geometry
Options:
- -p,
--position
- Sets the OSD window position. Or to be more precise, selects the point of
the screen which is told to be the beginning of the coordinates (the 0,0
point) AND selects the point of the OSD window to collocate with it. Valid
range is 0-8, where 0 is top-left corner and 8 is bottom-right corner.
Default value is 6.
- -x, --x-offset
**
- Sets the x-axis window offset from the (0,0) point. Default value is
50.
- -y, --y-offset
**
- Sets the y-axis window offset from the (0,0) point. Default value is
-50.
- -e, --shadow-offset
**
- Sets the shadow offset. Default value is 2.
- -d, --padding
*
- Sets the margin from the edge to the contents. Default value is
0.
- Appearance
Options:
- -t,
--transparency
- Sets the transparency mode. 0=none, 1=fake, 2=composite. Default value is
2.
- -n, --font
- Sets the OSD font. No default value.
- -w, --width
- Sets the OSD wrapping width in pixels. If set to zero, text will be
wrapped on screen width or will not be wrapped at all if other parameters
make it impossible to layout correctly. Default value is 0.
- Coloring
Options:
- -B,
--back-color
- Sets the background color. No default value.
- -S,
--shadow-color
- Sets the shadow color. Default value is black.
- -R,
--fore-color
- Sets the foreground color. Default value is green.
- Opacity
Options:
- -b, --back-opacity
*
- Sets the background opacity. Default value is 0.
- -s, --shadow-opacity
*
- Sets the shadow opacity. Default value is 192.
- -r, --fore-opacity
*
- Sets the foreground opacity. Default value is 255.
- Timing Options:
- -f,
--fade-in
- Sets the fade in time. Default value is 300.
- -u,
--fade-full
- Sets the time to show with full opacity. Default value is
3000.
- -o,
--fade-out
- Sets the fade out time. Default value is 300.
- Scrollback
Options:
- -a, --age
- Sets the line age removal limit. Default value is 0.
- -l, --lines
- Sets the line amount removal limit. Default value is 1.
- Application
Options:
- -i, --input
- Sets the input text source. Default value is -.
This manpage may be out of date. Use --help to get the latest
options.
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