• Clone the repo into your EDMC plugins directory
  • NB: you should not name the directory edmcoverlay2. Typically, you should name it edmcoverlay, for compatibility with as many plugins as possible. For some plugins, you may need to rename it to EDMCOverlay instead. You cannot currently use both names at once.
• Install the dependencies (mostly X11 development headers; on Ubuntu, the xorg-dev package may be sufficient)
• Run make
• In the EDMC settings, configure the size and position of the overlay

edmcoverlay2 aims to be 100% compatible with EDMC Overlay. Both the Python library and the local server (running on port 5010) are present, although for new plugins I highly recommend using the Python library where possible.

Some features are not yet implemented, and there are likely to be bugs.

Contributions are welcome!

In particular, I'd like to move away from direct use of the X APIs where possible – the use of XDrawString means that there are very few available fonts, and the fonts that do exist have extremely limited glyph coverage. Probably something like Pango (presumably in conjunction with cairo) is the best option. Help in doing this would be greatly appreciated.

Everyone interacting with this project is expected to abide by the terms of the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. Violations should be reported to coc-enforcement-edmcoverlay2@sorrel.sh.

Copyright © 2020 Ash Holland. Licensed under the GPL (version 3 only).

edmcoverlay2 is heavily based on X11 overlay by @ericek111 (GPLv3).

Additionally, parts of edmcoverlay2 are copied from other projects:

• gason (MIT)
• lib_netsockets (Apache 2.0)

edmcoverlay2 would not exist without them.

Copyright notices can be found in the relevant source files.