[GRLUG] X overlay drawing app?

[Scott Vokes]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for an application to basically do annotations on the screen.
> (To be used with wii whiteboard)
> Gromit is the only thing I've found so far.
> http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/gromit/README
> Hasn't had a release since 2004 and drawing doesn't work properly on
> either of my test systems (Ubuntu 8.04, 9.10).
> Anyone know of an alternative?
This is a rather late reply, but have you looked into xosd?
http://www.ignavus.net/software.html
* Screencaps: http://www.ignavus.net/images/screenshots/xosd-1.png
http://www.ignavus.net/images/screenshots/xosd-2.png

The C API is pretty reasonable, and I wrote a Lua wrapper for it as well.

Scott