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📝 — Display Text w/ X11
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Feature request: crop writable area #1

Closed jtgd closed 5 years ago

jtgd commented 5 years ago

It might to useful to some to have xtext not write to the entire screen. I'm not sure how hard it would be, but it would be nice to simply specify a rectangle to constrain the area of the screen written to. Also perhaps -bg color for the background.

resloved commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! Didn't realize someone actually used this.

Having the writable area surround only the text extents seems reasonable and an easy enough fix. Then you wouldn't even need a compositor to use xtext! For the background color you can just use the following pango syntax:

<span background="#ff0000">test<span>

resloved commented 5 years ago

As of 18a50948e2bdee5bbd633f91d4f898c3463775c2 xtext now resizes the window based on the size of the text and no longer draws over the entire screen.

If it works as intended for you please close the issue, otherwise let me know.

jtgd commented 5 years ago

Awesome! Thank you.