wallpaper-info is a small script that’s run at the beginning of an Xsession. It takes an imagein SVG format and puts in various pieces of system information (username, hostname, IP address), and sets it as the background for a GNOME session.
At the moment, wallpaper-info is only packaged for Debian based systems, including Ubuntu. You can install the package by adding these lines to a file named /etc/apt/sources.list.d/itomig.list, containing:
deb http://packages.itomig.de/ itomig main deb-src http://packages.itomig.de/ itomig mainAnd then running apt-get install wallpaper-info. Further setup information can then be found in /usr/share/doc/wallpaper-info/README
To download the source code, please grab the latest tarball from http://packages.itomig.de/pool/main/w/wallpaper-info/.
wallpaper-info is © 2008 Joachim Breitner <joachim.breitner@itomig.de> and licenced under the terms of the European Union Public Licence. Development was initiated by the city of Böblingen, Germany and carried out by ITOMIG.