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>