OSD customizations

[1qh]

It would be awesome if we can have following configurations for the OSD:

• item height, width
• item vertical padding
• focus item border width
• focus item background and text color
• possible to hide each of 3 columns
• position of desktop name (top/bottom)
• different font size for desktop switcher and window switcher
• size of the squares in desktop switcher

Thanks a lot. Looking forward for you to add these features.

[m1027]

Same here, I recently tried a large font size but the line height does not scale, so the displayed lines start to overlap.
<font place="OnScreenDisplay"> <name>DejaVu Sans Mono</name> <size>30</size><weight>normal</weight><slant>normal</slant> </font>

[Consolatis]

Hm.. right. Although we actually calculate the line height of the configured font, we only subtract it from a hardcoded item height (20px) to center the line. So if the line height based on the font config is > 20px, stuff starts to get wrong. We should likely replace that logic with some theme setting like osd.item.padding.y and remove the height of the item completely so its always calculated like osd.item.padding.y * 2 + font_height(font_osd).

In the meantime, if you feel like modifying the code itself to make your local copy work for bigger font sizes, src/osd.c right at the top: OSD_ITEM_HEIGHT.

[m1027]

Hm.. right. Although we actually calculate the line height of the configured font, we only subtract it from a hardcoded item height (20px) to center the line.

Thanks for sharing the insights.

So, I believe, this whole thing is actually 2 things:

• A fix to handle the line height correctly (without the need to configure anything).
• An enhancement (see OP).

[johanmalm]

Will track this in #968
Closing.