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jens-maus merged 7 commits into from
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add new buildroot package 'xosd' which will allow us to display an OSD #41

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create new buildroot xosd package to potentially get a OSD display
jens-maus Sep 22, 2025
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rename libxmlrpc to xosd
jens-maus Sep 22, 2025
22943c5
use official xosd release archives rathern than trying to autoreconf
jens-maus Sep 23, 2025
eff5c27
use master version
jens-maus Sep 23, 2025
4e071a4
better xosd description
jens-maus Sep 23, 2025
83fb361
fix linter error
jens-maus Sep 23, 2025
9749aa3
fix some nitpicks
jens-maus Sep 23, 2025
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions buildroot-external/Buildroot.config
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Expand Up @@ -107,3 +107,4 @@ BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_MTOOLS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_HOTKEYD=y
BR2_PACKAGE_NUMLOCKX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XPRINTIDLE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XOSD=y
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions buildroot-external/Config.in
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Expand Up @@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ menu "Additional software"
source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_THINROOT_PATH/package/qt-kiosk-browser/Config.in"
source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_THINROOT_PATH/package/multilib32/Config.in"
source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_THINROOT_PATH/package/yoe-kiosk-browser/Config.in"
source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_THINROOT_PATH/package/xosd/Config.in"
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions buildroot-external/package/xosd/Config.in
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config BR2_PACKAGE_XOSD
bool "xosd"
select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11
select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXEXT
help
XOSD displays text on your screen, sounds simple right?
The difference is it is unmanaged and shaped, so it appears
transparent. This gives the effect of an On Screen Display,
like your TV/VCR etc.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libxosd/
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions buildroot-external/package/xosd/xosd.hash
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sha256 4f1fa96f4895baee6a3cba40f188a0da23bbac9d68e8c326d749e084143cb508 xosd-2.2.14.tar.gz
20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions buildroot-external/package/xosd/xosd.mk
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################################################################################
#
# libxosd / xosd
#
################################################################################

XOSD_VERSION = 2.2.14
XOSD_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libxosd/libxosd/xosd-$(XOSD_VERSION)
XOSD_LICENSE = GPL-2.0-or-later
XOSD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
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XOSD_DEPENDENCIES = xlib_libX11 xlib_libXext

# remove unnecessary stuff
define XOSD_REMOVE_DATA
$(RM) -r $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/xosd
$(RM) -r $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/xosd-config
endef
XOSD_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += XOSD_REMOVE_DATA

$(eval $(autotools-package))