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.

X Version 11                                   6.08 (10-Oct-2023)                                  fontglide(6x)