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TICKR(1) General Commands Manual TICKR(1)

Tickr - GTK-based highly graphically-customizable Feed Ticker.

tickr [-help/-version/-license/-instance-id=n/-no-ui/-dumpfontlist]
[options (-name[=value])...] [resource (file name or URL)]

Tickr is a GTK-based RSS/Atom Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your Desktop, as known from TV stations. Open feed links in your favourite Browser. Graphics are highly customizable.

Get help page
Print out version number
Print out license
n = 1 to 99 - Use this when launching several instances simultaneously, each instance using its own config and dump files (to be effective, instance-id must be the 1st argument)
Disable opening of UI elements which can modify settings and/or URL list/selection
Send list of available fonts to stdout
Delay in milliseconds
Shift size in pixels
Foreground 32-bit hexa color
Background 32-bit hexa color
Set gradient background
Background 32-bit hexa color2
Font name
Font size (can't be > 200)
Allow win_y and win_w to be greater than screen dimensions
Window position - x
Window position - y
Window width
Window height (compute font size if > 0)
Window decoration
Window always-on-top
Actually window opacity from 1 to 10 (0 = none -> 10 = full)
Icon in taskbar
Visible on all user desktops
Apply shadow to text
Shadow x offset in pixels
Shadow y offset in pixels
Shadow effect (0 = none -> 10 = full)
String to be appended at end of line
String to be appended after a cut line
Enable or disable special characters. This is only useful when resource is a file, not an URL
´New page' special character
´Tab' (8 spaces) special character
Refresh rate in minutes (if no TTL inside feed / always applies for files)
Show or hide feed title
String to be appended after feed title
Show or hide item title
String to be appended after item title
Show or hide item description
String to be appended after item description
Read N items max per feed
Strip html tags
Set all text to upper case
Set URL as 'homefeed' = homepage (from command line, not automatically saved, so a little bit useless...)
´Open in Browser' command line: Application that will open active link (may require path.) Most likely will invoke your favourite browser
´Open in Browser' optional arguments
Clock location: left / right / none
Clock font name
Clock font size (can't be > ticker height)
Clock foreground 32-bit hexa color
Clock background 32-bit hexa color
Set clock gradient background
Clock background 32-bit hexa color2
Disable error/warning popup windows
Pause ticker on mouseover
Disable left-click
Mouse wheel scrolling applies to: (ticker-)speed / feed(-in-list) / none
(if set, Ctrl + mouse wheel scrolling applies to other value)
Selected feed picker closes when pointer leaves
Enable feed re-ordering (by user)
Use HTTP basic authentication
User
Password (never saved)
Connect through proxy
Proxy host
Proxy port
Use proxy authentication
Proxy user
Proxy password (never saved)

Mouse usage:

- To open the main menu, right-click inside ticker area.

- You can import feed subscriptions from another feed reader with
´File > Import Feed List (OPML)'.

- To open a link in your browser, left-click on text.

- Use mouse wheel to either adjust ticker scrolling speed or open the ´Selected Feed Picker' window to quickly move between selected feeds (and use Ctrl + mouse wheel for the other option.)

The default browser is Firefox. You may change this setting to your favourite one in the Preferences window.

Tickr parses command line arguments and looks for option(s) then for one resource, the rest of the line is ignored. It reads too configuration file ´tickr-conf' located in /home/<user_name>/.tickr/ if it exists (or ´tickr-conf<n>' if an instance id has been set to n.) See FILES.

Command line options override configuration file ones which override default ones.

~/.tickr/tickr-conf
~/.tickr/tickr-conf<n>
~/.tickr/tickr-url-list
~/.tickr/tickr-url-list<n>

Please, report tickr bugs to either Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@gmail.com> or Debian.

Tickr was written by Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

May 23, 2013