Bug 98746

Summary:	banner screensaver: please allow banner text to be read from file
Product:	[Unmaintained] kscreensaver	Reporter:	Ben Burton <bab>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ana
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Ben Burton 2005-02-07 07:44:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

(Received through the debian BTS as #260237.)

A debian user has made the following request:

"Wouldn't it be nice to have the contents of the user's .plan file as a banner on the screen?  Please consider adding the option to read banner text from a file or take a script's output as a banner."

Thanks - Ben.

Comment 1 josh 2005-03-24 05:45:28 UTC

Here, here!  I've got plans for this one if it ever comes along.  You could feed the file an rss from a cron script.  Google news rss on my screensaver.  BAM!

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-04-12 12:40:29 UTC

the other request is more generic: cat ~/.plan

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53542 ***