bionic (6) fontglide.6x.gz

NAME

       fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words

SYNOPSIS

       fontglide  [-display  host:display.screen]  [-window]  [-root] [-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.

       -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(1).

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       xscreensaver(1),  xscreensaver-text(1), 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.