gnome/desktop background "black"/whiteboard

[ghat]

hi

I have a dual monitor setup, and I usually set that to no-image and make it "black" to save energy...

It would be really nice if there was a way to embed a text document which can be dynamically updated using some sort of gnome-applet. and could serve as the whiteboard I use in my office to write down some mnemonics, or tasks to do etc...

Personally I would like to have a "big font" like we use on the whiteboard, and dont mind if that is a image, however should be easily update-able...

does anyone know if any such thing already exists ?

G

[buddyd16]

If I understand what you are asking correctly then Conky is the application you are looking for. I am however not sure if it supports the reading of a txt file via its standard configuration or if a script is required.

There are two threads in the general discussion area which would be good starting points one covers the configuration file and the other is custom scripts individuals have made:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1358302&highlight=conky+scripts