>From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] wanted: hacker for small SFD script
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
>
>xdaliclock -countdown 'Sep 16 11:30:00 2006' -fullscreen -font '-*-new
>century schoolbook-medium-r-*-*-300-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
>
>but the time would have to be changed at every invocation. Running it like
>so:
>
>mplayer $MOPTIONS ; xdaliclock $XOPTIONS
>
>would start with no chance of being wrong, even if somebody pauses or FFs
>the movie.
Ooo--xdaliclock is neat. I didn't know about that one. I just read in the
man page that it can be displayed on the root windows. Maybe adding 30
minutes to the current time and passing that to xdaliclock on the root
window before invoking mplayer would work? Thanks for helping out with this.
Jonathon
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