When it comes to displaying an OSD, the main concern is surely its transparency.
Libaosd provides the following options here:

• No transparency — the startup default, you'll see a black rectangle;
• Fake transparency — when osd background is copied from the screen contents;
• XComposite — the way of screen composition with rapidly increasing popularity,
  but falls back to fake transparency upon improper setup.

However, the most common use of OSD, and its original purpose after all,
is displaying the textual information. One of the natural ways to implement
this task with Libaosd is drawing a Pango rendered layout.
If this matches your opinion, then you might consider using several Pango wrappers
which are bundled with Libaosd and installed as a separate library.

Given all that said, Libaosd should be considered a perfect replacement for an old-fashioned libxosd.

Libaosd is licensed under the MIT/X11 license.

Downloads:

• 0.2.7
• 0.2.6
• 0.2.5
• 0.2.4
• 0.2.3
• 0.2.2
• 0.2.1
• 0.2.0

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