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https://github.com/jeffa5/waytext
Display text on all wayland displays
https://github.com/jeffa5/waytext
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Display text on all wayland displays
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jeffa5/waytext
- Owner: jeffa5
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-06-15T13:31:45.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-18T20:38:03.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-10-18T21:34:34.821Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: C
- Size: 41 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# waytext
Display text on all outputs with colouring. Useful for getting attention such
as for taking breaks or other alerts.
It currently works on Sway 1.0.
## Usage
```sh
waytext -h
```
When shown, the user can dismiss the display using `Escape` or using the left
mouse button.
## Building
Install dependencies:
* meson
* wayland
* cairo
* scdoc (optional: man pages)
Then run, using the provided `Makefile`:
```sh
make build
make install
```
Or manually:
```sh
meson build
ninja -C build
build/waytext
```
## Contributing
Any contributions are welcome, via issues or pull requests.
## Thanks
This is currently largely code from [slurp][1], adapted for this purpose.
## License
MIT
[1]: https://github.com/emersion/slurp
[2]: https://lists.sr.ht/%7Eemersion/public-inbox