NAME

       xdhamma - graphical displayed verse from the Dhammapada.

SYNOPSIS

       xdhamma [OPTIONS] [num]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Dhammapada  is  an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon.
       It contains Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts.  One of the translations is by  John  Richards;  the
       other is an older translation by F. Max Muller.

       xdhamma prints a graphical notification using notify‐send

OPTIONS

       ‐r | ‐‐richards (Default)
               Use the Richards translation.

       ‐m | ‐‐muller
               Use the Muller translation.

       ‐p | ‐‐polish
               Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale).

       ‐g | ‐‐grunge
               Use the grunge Buddha icon with notify‐send.

       ‐e | ‐‐enso
               Use the enso icon with notify‐send.

       ‐l | ‐‐lotus
               Use the lotus icon with notify‐send.

       ‐k | ‐‐kdialog
               Display Dhammapada verse with kdialog.

       ‐z | ‐‐zenity
               Display Dhammapada verse with zenity.

       [num]   Print the given number verse.

EXAMPLES

       To display a verse each time you log in on a graphical (X Window) session, run xdhamma in your DE session
       start‐up or ~/.xsession.

FILES

       /usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐english‐transl.txt

       /usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐alternate.txt

       /usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐polish‐transl.txt

SEE ALSO

       notify‐send

BUGS

       Please report bugs on Launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/display-dhammapada

AUTHORS

       Author: bodhi.zazen <bodhizazen at fedoraproject dot org>

       Program: Copyright GPL v3

       Home Page: http://bodhizazen.net/display-dhammapada/

       Richards'  English  translation  of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK),
       permission granted for use here.  See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm

       Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

       Polish    translation    (by     Zbigniew     Becker):     Public     Domain,     as     explained     at
       http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
       See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/

1.0                                                April 2003                                         XDHAMMA(1)