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NAME

       xteddy - cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop.

SYNOPSIS

       xteddy [ -wm -float -noquit -nocursor -F<file> ]
       [ -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y -display SERVER ]
       [ -h --help -v ]

DESCRIPTION

       Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop.

       Normally, xteddy just sits around doing nothing. After all, that's what teddy bears are for. Look at him,
       talk to him, place heavy windows on top of him, zap him around until he becomes dizzy, do what you  like;
       he will always be your true (albeit virtual) friend.

       You can move xteddy with the mouse by pointing at him and dragging him around. When clicked upon, he will
       pop up on top of all other windows. If you type "q" or "Esc" on him, he will exit (or, as I like to think
       of it, be tucked away in the file system until you need him next time).

       That's it. But he's cute.

OPTIONS

       -wm    Use  the  window  manager.  Normally, xteddy sets the override_redirect flag for his window, which
              will cause most window managers to ignore him. However, some window managers might  have  problems
              coping  with  a  window  that  is  nailed directly to the root.  In that case, use this option. If
              possible, instruct your window manager not to put any title bar or window frame on the window,  or
              xteddy will lose some of his charm.

       -float Float  up  on top of overlapping windows. This will make xteddy stay in sight at all times, so you
              won't lose him. However, this is a bit intrusive and quite unlike a real teddy bear, so it is  not
              the default action.

       -noquit
              Disable  the  "quit"  command  (do  not quit when typing "q" in the window, but of course still on
              explicit window kills or process kills).  This might seem an unnecessary option, but  if  you  use
              the  -wm  option  Xteddy  might  keep  receiving keyboard events even after the mouse has left his
              window. I you use the -wm option in conjunction with a click-to-type  window  manager,  you  would
              probably want to include this option.

       -nocursor
              Disable the X11 cursor over the xteddy window.

       -F,-f  <  file  >  Display  another  image instead of xteddy.  file can be the full name of an image file
              which reasonably should contain a transparent background.  If there is no such file in the current
              working     directory    xteddy    searches    in    $(installation_prefix)/share/xteddy,    where
              $(installation_prefix) is determined at compile time (for instance /usr/X11R6).  If this fails  by
              default  /usr/share/xteddy  is  searched.   Failing this, /usr/local/share/xteddy is searched.  If
              there is no such file in these directories the following appendixes where appended  to  the  given
              name:  xpm,  png,  tif,  jpg,  jpeg,  gif  and  pnm.   These  files  will be searched in the three
              directories.  If all files the last try is to append the extensions in upper cases. '-F' and  '-f'
              are equivalent, and the space in '-f <file>' is optional.

       If no `-F` parameter is given file equals to xteddy or more precisely to the name of the calling program.
       For instance if there is a symlink

              ln -s xteddy xpenguin

       then file equals to xpenguin and the appropriate pixmaps with the name xpenguin are searched for.

       -geometry
              The standard X geometry specification. Only X and Y position requests are honored. Any height  and
              width specifications will be ignored.

       -display
              Specify an X server other than the local display.

       -h, --help
              Print a help message and exit.

       -v     Print the version number and exit.

BEARS

       The  cast  of  characters  is  currently: teddy xalex xbobo   xbrummi xcherubino xduck xhedgehog  xklitze
       xnamu  xorca xpenguin xpuppy  xruessel xteddy xtrouble.png xtrouble_large xtuxxy.

AUTHOR

       Stefan Gustavson, ISY-LiTH (stegu@itn.liu.se).  Xteddy  is  distributed  under  the  GNU  General  Public
       License.

BUGS

       The  Desktop Manager in Sun CDE (Common Desktop Environment) does not like xteddy. Xteddy by default does
       not use the window manager, and so he shows up as a sticky window on all  desktops.  If  you  don't  like
       this,  and try to circumvent it by running him with the -wm option, move him by grabbing him by the tummy
       instead of by the title bar, and then move him partly off the screen, the image is lost and never redrawn
       again,  so  all  you  see is a silhouette of a teddy bear.  I have no idea why this happens. If you know,
       please tell me, and if you can fix it, please do. If you run CDE on other platforms than Sun, please tell
       me  if it works for you. CDE does something which xteddy does not handle properly, and since I have a Sun
       with CDE myself I would like to know what the problem is.

       For most X servers, the -float option does not work properly if xteddy is moved partially off the screen.
       This is the X server's fault, not mine.

       If  two  copies  of  xteddy  are  placed so they overlap, and both were run with the -float option, the X
       server will try to put each on top of the other in an endless loop, which looks very bad and takes a  lot
       of CPU power.

       Xteddy does not make use of the X resource database. I just didn't get around to that.

       Please send bug reports, fixes, suggestions, fan mail or or hacks to: stegu@itn.liu.se.