light-monitor is a transparent panel that depends only on X and Xft. It comes with light-calendar, a simple, transparent, and lightweight calendar. These two programs are written to consume the lowest possible amount of resources.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A stalling bug due to a change in the X.Org internals (i.e. simultaneous XNextEvent and XCopyArea) has been fixed.
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