fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words
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]
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.
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.
- 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.
xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-text(6x),
fortune(1), phosphor(6x), apple2(6x),
starwars(6x), ljlatest(6x), dadadodo(1),
webcollage(6x), driftnet(1) EtherPEG,
EtherPeek
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.
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Sep-2003.