X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fphosphor.man;h=989150ec46367b1a6d0fc3e1da49f16f11c7335b;hb=96a411663168b0ba5432b407a83be55f3df0c802;hp=0b8f7900076873a8efa05b5124eebeaf7fda0643;hpb=0316d74da7982288abddd34e7a62698eb7f79965;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/phosphor.man b/hacks/phosphor.man index 0b8f7900..989150ec 100644 --- a/hacks/phosphor.man +++ b/hacks/phosphor.man @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ phosphor - simulates an old terminal with long-sustain phosphor [\-ticks \fIint\fP] [\-delay \fIusecs\fP] [\-program \fIcommand\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fIphosphor\fP program draws text on the screen in a very large -pixellated font that looks like an old low resolution dumb tty. The +pixelated font that looks like an old low resolution dumb tty. The pixels flare and fade out as if the phosphor was very long-sustain. .SH OPTIONS .I phosphor @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ 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. .TP 8 .B \-font \fIfont-name\fP -The X font to use. Phosphor can take any font and scale it up to pixellate +The X font to use. Phosphor can take any font and scale it up to pixelate it. The default is \fIfixed\fP. .TP 8 .B \-scale \fIint\fP @@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ will work, but programs like .BR top (1) won't. -Here's a good trick, to get phosphor to display recent web search terms: +For example: .EX -phosphor -program \\ - 'wget -qO- http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/SearchTicker' +phosphor -program 'cat /usr/src/linux*/README' +phosphor -program 'ping localhost' +phosphor -program 'ps -e' +phosphor -program 'od -txC -w6 /dev/random' .EE .SH ENVIRONMENT .PP @@ -90,9 +92,17 @@ to get the default host and display number. to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. .SH SEE ALSO -.BR wget (1), -.BR X (1), -.BR xscreensaver (1) +.BR xscreensaver (1), +.BR fortune (1), +.BR apple2 (1), +.BR starwars (1), +.BR fontglide (1), +.BR ljlatest (1), +.BR dadadodo (1), +.BR webcollage (1), +.BR driftnet (1) +.BR EtherPEG , +.BR EtherPeek .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 1999 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is