Hi, These are probably the wrong things to use to implement this. There's not much you could leverage. I'd recommend writing something more custom for this purpose. Christian -- Christian Hammond - <a href="mailto:chipx86@chipx86.com">chipx86@chipx86.com</a> Review Board - <a href="http://www.reviewboard.org">http://www.reviewboard.org</a> VMware, Inc. - <a href="http://www.vmware.com">http://www.vmware.com</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ezequiel Birman <<a href="mailto:stormwatch@espiga4.com.ar">stormwatch@espiga4.com.ar</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I need some sort of ticker program to bug me (almost) continuosly with news feeds (or any arbitrary data). I was wondering if it is possible to write such an application using libnotify and/or notification-daemon. Transparency and sliding text would be also great additions. Would you please point me in the right direction? -- Ezequiel Birman _______________________________________________ galago-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:galago-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">galago-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/galago-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/galago-devel</a> </blockquote></div>