OT: Calendar Overlays for Wallpapers

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Thu Mar 2 16:58:58 UTC 2006


Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:33 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
>   
>> I've spent all morning looking for something that I can overlay a
>> calendar on a wallpaper and I can't seem to find anything at all what
>> I want.
>>
>> Basically I would like to overlay a calendar to a wallpaper and then
>> flatten them together and save it so it's just a jpeg. I would think
>> this is possible with the gimp, but I can't seem to find anything and
>> I tried several search string in google but nothing brings back what I
>> want. Everything is giving me a desktop program to run, and nothing ot
>> overlay a background.
>>
>> Anyone else have something like this working?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
> You can generate calendars by using the cal command at CLI prompt.  man
> cal will show you the options.
>
> Should be able to paste the output of cal into a text object in gimp
> then apply that to the background you want.
>
>
>
>
>   
Why not use superkaramba?  That is if you are using KDE, I don't know if 
it works with GNOME.  There are themes that do that and it works really 
well.


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Mark Haney
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