NAME

       ticker - scroll messages across the screen

SYNOPSIS

       ticker [options] [message]

DESCRIPTION

       ticker  is a program that continually scrolls a given message across the screen.  There is
       also an interface to allow other programs to change the message.

KEYS

       +, [up arrow]
              Increase scroll speed.

       -, [down arrw]
              Decrease scroll speed.

       [space]
              Pause. Press any key to unpause.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -u, --upper
              Scroll text on the top line of the screen. (Default)

       -l, --lower
              Scroll text on the bottom line of the screen.

       -fcolor, --foreground=color
              Use the specified color as the forground color of the text that is  scrolled.   The
              colors that may be used are:
               black           gray
               red             brightred
               green           brightgreen
               brown           yellow
               blue            brightblue
               magenta         brightmagenta
               cyan            brightcyan
               lightgray       white

       -bcolor, --background=color
              Use  the  specified  color as the background color of the text that is scrolled. On
              most terminals, the background color can only be one of the colors  listed  in  the
              first column above.

       -dsecs, --delay=secs
              Number  of seconds delay between updates of the display. This controls how fast the
              text scrolls. You may use decimals to specify faster scroll  speeds.   The  default
              delay is 1 second; I find 0.1 more pleasing.

       -snum, --sysv=num
              Read  messages  to  display  from the sysv shared memory segment with an id of num.
              This is only for use by other programs that need to be  able  to  change  the  text
              ticker displays.

       -Snum, --size=num
              Size  of  the shared memory segment to read, when using shared memory communication
              with another program. Default is 80 characters.

       -csecs, --check=secs
              Minimum time between checks of  the  shared  memory  segment  for  a  new  message.
              Default  is  every second. It may in fact check considerably less often, as it only
              checks for a new message once per time that the current message scrolls around  the
              screen.

       message
              The message to scroll. Required unless -s is used, in which case it is optional.

NOTES

       To  use  the  other 23 or so lines of your screen for something useful while the ticker is
       running, you might want to use splitvt(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

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