https://github.com/jd/telak

Draw images on your X root window
https://github.com/jd/telak

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Draw images on your X root window

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jd/telak
• Owner: jd
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-08-18T15:54:25.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-03T22:02:10.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-08T20:19:23.263Z (9 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 149 KB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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# Telak

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_telak_ is a small tool to draw local or remote pictures on your X11 root window.

This is very useful if you want to have webcam, graphs or

something like this drawn above your wallpaper.

## Features

- Display local pictures in any format (supported by Imlib2: JPG, PNG...)

  on your root window where you want

- Download and display remote pictures (HTTP, FTP...)

- Refresh pictures if needed every X seconds

- Invert color mode

- KDE and GNOME support

## Installation

% make install

## Config file

The main configuration file is `~/.telak/telakrc`.

Read `telakrc.sample` for more help.

![telak 0.1](telak_0.1.jpg)

![telak 0.2](telak_0.2.jpg)