[Tutor] Text Directly to Screen?

[Wolfram Kraus]

Aaron Elbaz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My question has to do with outputting text.
> 
> Normally, you ouput to a console or a gui...but for my task, a hack
> might be needed..
> 
> What I want to do is output text *directly* to the screen. And if
> possible, restrict the window area to specific dimensions (top right
> in mind). It should basically be like a layer of Cellophane over all
> other windows, so that users can't interact, they only 'see' the
> output of the chat session, and this chat session would be visible
> over all windows, including the native OS gui.
> 
> It sounds awfully cool, but awfully complicated too. I'm not sure
> where to start looking..
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -thanks

I don't think that there is a OS independent solution for this problem, 
but if you are using KDE under Linux you can try superkaramba 
(http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html). There is a 
similar package for gnome, too, google is your friend.

HTH,
Wolfram