screen-message: use your screen to communicate
July 18th, 2007 edited by TinchoArticle submitted by Joachim Breitner (with a special contribution of the editors ;) ). We are running out of articles! Please help DPOTD and submit good articles about software you like!
Have you ever used a text processor write just to display some text full-screen and found it too tedious? Were you sitting in some audience and tried to make a comment to those behind your? Needed to take mugshots?
Then you might want to install sm, short for screen-message. Once you start sm, you can type your text and it will be displayed as large as possible. The text can also be specified on the command line, when starting sm or piped from another program. For real convenient and fast usage, it is recommended to bind a key combination to starting sm.
Alternatives are any web browser and word processors with a full screen mode.
The package is available in Debian unstable and it’ll be soon in testing and merged in Ubuntu.
Finally, with the goal of enlighten our readers of how cool screen-message is and do some aggressive marketing:
Ana Guerrero and Martín Ferrari (aka Tincho), debaday editors.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Great article. I had no idea such a neat little app even existed!
July 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Yeah, this tool might come in handy once in a while. Thx!
July 20th, 2007 at 1:19 am
This photograph is really great ;D
July 20th, 2007 at 8:25 am
This package seems not to be in ubuntu. Anyone know the story there? Is it hiding under a different name, or have the Powers That Be decided to banish it?
July 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
@Dan:
The package has just entered in Debian, so people in Ubuntu still has not merged it.
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:13 am
great stories, however I want to let you know that https://debaday.debian.net/ crashes my firefox browser.
In order to be able to view your site, I have to use one of your story links.
Can’t hold the source to view and see what is going on.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Azar Bk:
I use firefox and never had a problem with debaday, I think that there should be some problem in your installation.
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Tincho:
Found the problem, the main page of Debday does not pass the W3C compliance (something related to xhtml). Click on the right column where you see the W3C link…
also read: the W3C HTML validation is broken:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3396306.htm
August 6th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Anyone successfully installed on feisty?
thanks
August 6th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Hi,
figured out myself:
Installed the following packages:
libcairo2-dev (1.4.2-0ubuntu1)
libglib2.0-dev (2.12.11-0ubuntu1)
libpango1.0-dev (1.16.2-0ubuntu1)
Then ./configure worked w/o problems.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:27 am
koni:
You can always try adding a debian source repository and issuing:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep screen-message
$ apt-get source screen-message
$ cd screen-message*
$ debian/rules binary