#!/usr/bin/perl
#Kamin Whitehouse Oct 17 2004
#this script shows the date and time on the screen.  it requires the xosd library to be installed.
#I have it hot-keyed to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D

system("echo `date '+%a, %b %d'` |  osd_cat -d 1.5 -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-*-*-19-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* -O 6 &");
system("echo `date '+%l:%M %P'` |  osd_cat -d 1.5 -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-*-*-19-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* -O 6 -o 20 &");