NAME

       telak - draw local or remote pictures on your root window

SYNOPSIS

       telak [options]

DESCRIPTION

       telak  is  a  program that draw local or remote pictures on your root window. This is very
       useful if you want to have  webcam,  graphs  or  something  like  this  drawn  above  your
       wallpaper.

OPTIONS

       This  program  follows  the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with
       two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

       -h --help
              Show summary of options.

       -v --version
              Show version of program.

       -d --display
              Specify display.

       -c --config
              Specify configuration file.

       --cache
              Specify cache directory.

CONFIGURATION FILE

       The format is pretty simple. Each image have to be declared in a section, which is defined
       like this: [image_name]

       After this, you will have to declare options you want.

       url = <url or path>
              URL (http, ftp) or path (/home...) to your picture. MANDATORY.

       width = <size in px>
              Force the width of the picture to X.

       heigth = <size in px>
              Force the heigth of the picture to X.

       x = <position in px>
              Position of the image.

       y = <position in px>
              Position of the image.

       refresh = <time in seconds>
              Reload image every X seconds.

       reverse = <1 or 0>
              Reverse color mode.

EXAMPLE

       Here is a telakrc example.

       [test]
       url = /home/staff/acid/test.jpg
       width = 100
       height = 100
       x = 800
       y = 600
       reverse = 0

       [photo]
       url = http://www.somedomaine.com/somepath/arf.png
       x = 200
       y = 0
       refresh = 300
       reverse = 1

FILES

       ~/.telak/telakrc
              Main configuration file.

       ~/.telak/cache
              Default cache directory.

AUTHOR

       Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>

HOMEPAGE

       http://julien.danjou.info/telak.html

                                         February 8, 2005                                TELAK(1)