NAME

       fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words

SYNOPSIS

       fontglide     [--display    host:display.screen]    [--window]    [--root]    [--window-id
       number][--install]  [--visual  visual]  [--delay  usecs]  [--scroll]  [--page]  [--random]
       [--speed  float]  [--linger  float]  [--program  sh-command] [--font font-name] [--bw int]
       [--trails] [--db] [--debug] [--fps]

DESCRIPTION

       The fontglide program reads text from a subprocess and puts it on the screen  using  large
       characters  that  glide  in  from the edges, assemble, then disperse.  Alternately, it can
       simply scroll whole sentences from right to left.

OPTIONS

       fontglide accepts the following options:

       --window
               Draw on a newly-created window.  This is the default.

       --root  Draw on the root window.

       --window-id number
               Draw on the specified window.

       --install
               Install a private colormap for the window.

       --visual visual
               Specify which visual to use.  Legal values are the name of a visual class, or  the
               id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.

       --delay usecs
               The delay between steps of the animation, in microseconds: default 10000.

       --page  With this option, a page full of text will glide in, and disperse.

       --scroll
               With this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.

       --random
               The default is to pick randomly between --page and  --scroll.

       --speed float
               How fast to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.  Default 1.0.

       --linger float
               How  long  to leave the assembled text on the screen in --page mode; 2 means twice
               as long, 0.5 means half as long.  Default 1.0.  (The more words there are  on  the
               screen, the longer it lingers.)

       --program sh-command
               The command to run to generate the text to display.  This option may be any string
               acceptable to /bin/sh.  The program will be run at the end  of  a  pipe,  and  any
               words  that  it  prints to stdout will end up on the window.  (Whitespace and line
               breaks are ignored.)  If the program exits, it will be  launched  again  after  we
               have processed all the text it produced.  Default: xscreensaver-text(6x).

       --font string
               The base font pattern to use when loading fonts.  The default is to search for any
               Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on the system.  Once a base font  is  selected,
               it will be loaded in a random size.

       --bw int
               How thick an outline to draw around the characters.  Default 2 pixels.

       --trails
               Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text.  Default off.

       --no-db Turn off double-buffering.  It may be faster, but will flicker.

       --debug Draw  some boxes showing character metrics, and print the name of the current font
               to stderr.

       --fps   Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

       XENVIRONMENT
               to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources  stored  in
               the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

       XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
               The window ID to use with --root.

SEE ALSO

       xscreensaver(1),     xscreensaver-text(6x),    fortune(1),    phosphor(6x),    apple2(6x),
       starwars(6x), ljlatest(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x), driftnet(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2003 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell
       this  software  and  its  documentation  for  any  purpose  is hereby granted without fee,
       provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
       notice  and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.  No representations
       are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose.  It is provided  "as  is"
       without express or implied warranty.

AUTHOR

       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Sep-2003.