NAME

       bambam - a keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies

SYNOPSIS

       bambam [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       -u, --uppercase
              Show UPPER-CASE letters.

       -d, --deterministic-sounds
              Produce same sounds on same key presses.

       -D, --dark
              Use a dark background instead of a light one.

       -m, --mute
              Do not play any sounds.

       --sound_blacklist=GLOB
              List of sound filename patterns to never play.

       --image_blacklist=GLOB
              List of image filename patterns to never show.

       --wayland-ok
              Do not prevent running under Wayland. See the NOTES section.

       bambam  is  a  keyboard and mouse game for babies written in Python.  Pressing letter keys prints them in
       random locations and colours.  Pressing  any  other  key  draws  little  pictures  in  random  locations.
       Dragging  the  mouse while the mouse button is pressed draws in randomly changing colours.  The screen is
       cleared at random.

NOTES

       To quit, directly type the command mentioned in the upper left-hand corner of the window. In the  English
       locales, this is the word: quit.

       To turn the sound off and on, type mute and unmute, respectively, in the game.

       bambam  loads  images  (GIF,  JPEG, PNG and TIFF files) and sounds (WAV and OGG files) from the following
       directories:

       •      the data directory distributed with the game,

       •      $XDG_DATA_HOME (usually ~/.local/share/bambam/data)

       When scanning directories for files, bambam does follow symbolic  links  and  descend  directories.  This
       makes is easy to have bambam use files located elsewhere.

       Be aware that there are ways to switch to another application from bambam:

       •      when  running  under  Wayland, it is not currently possible for bambam to grab all key presses.  A
              consequence of that is that if you use GNOME Shell, pressing the Windows (a.k.a. Super)  key  will
              activate  the  activities  overview.  Please check your environment. If that is the case, then you
              can try running bambam in a dedicated X session, for example by running startx bambam from a  text
              console.  As a workaround, starting with version 1.1.2, bambam will try to detect if it is running
              under  Wayland.  If  this  is the case, bambam will display a warning and refuse to work.  You can
              disable this workaround, with the --wayland-ok option.

       •      bambam does not block virtual terminal switching (e.g.  CTRL+ALT+F1). See the example  50-dont-vt-
              switch.conf file if you would like to block that.

AUTHOR

       Spike Burch <spikeb@gmail.com> Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>

version 1.1.2                                   30 December 2020                                       bambam(6)