X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fwebcollage.man;h=c84e5032bf9a024c6340a99a6da17855d1c79aad;hb=9c9d475ff889ed8be02e8ce8c17da28b93278fca;hp=51dbb18a1c0e633aa6840d15d77fdf739bf28f6d;hpb=13dbc569cdc6e29019722c0ef9b932a925efbcad;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/webcollage.man b/hacks/webcollage.man index 51dbb18a..c84e5032 100644 --- a/hacks/webcollage.man +++ b/hacks/webcollage.man @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ webcollage - decorate the screen with random images from the web [\-background \fIbg\fP] [\-no-output] [\-urls-only] +[\-imagemap \fIfilename-base\fP] [\-size \fIWxH\fP] [\-filter \fIcommand\fP] [\-filter2 \fIcommand\fP] @@ -52,6 +53,11 @@ and requires Perl 5. It will be an order of magnitude faster if you also have the \fIwebcollage-helper\fP program installed (a GDK/JPEG image compositor), but \fIwebcollage\fP works without it as well. + +\fIwebcollage\fP can be used in conjunction with the +.BR driftnet (1) +program (the Unix equivalent of EtherPEG) to snoop images from traffic +on your local subnet, instead of getting images from search engines. .SH OPTIONS .I webcollage accepts the following options: @@ -95,6 +101,13 @@ with \fB\-verbose\fP. If this option is specified, then no composite output image will be generated: instead, a list of image URLs will be printed on stdout. .TP 8 +.B \-imagemap \fIfilename-base\fP +If this option is specified, then instead of writing an image to the +root window, two files will be created: "\fIbase\fP.html" and "\fIbase\fP.jpg". +The JPEG will be the collage; the HTML file will include that image, and +an image-map making the sub-images be linked to the pages on which they +were found (just like \fIhttp://www.jwz.org/webcollage/\fP.) +.TP 8 .B \-filter \fIcommand\fP Filter all source images through this command. The command must take a PPM file on stdin, and write a new PPM file to stdout. One good @@ -151,24 +164,31 @@ stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. .B http_proxy\fR or \fPHTTP_PROXY to get the default HTTP proxy host and port. .SH FILES AND URLS -.TP -.I /usr/dict/words \fRor\fP /usr/share/lib/dict/words \fRor\fP /usr/share/dict/words -To find the random words to feed to search engines. -.PP -.I http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl, http://image.altavista.com/ -To find random web pages. -.SH BUGS -When drawing on the root window, it always uses the default colormap. -This is actually a limitation of xv. But regardless, when using this -program with xscreensaver, it must be given the \fBdefault-n\fP -visual specification (see the -.BR xscreensaver (1) -manual for more details.) +.I /usr/dict/words, +.I /usr/share/lib/dict/words,\fP +or +.I /usr/share/dict/words +to find the random words to feed to certain search engines. -Animating GIFs are not supported. + \fIhttp://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink\fP, + \fIhttp://random.yahoo.com/fast/ryl\fP, + \fIhttp://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml\fP, and + \fIhttp://news.yahoo.com/\fP +to find random web pages. +.SH BOOBIES +The Internet being what it is, absolutely anything might show up in the +collage including -- quite possibly -- pornography, or even nudity. +.SH BUGS +Animating GIFs are not supported: only the first frame will be used. +.SH UPGRADES +The latest version of webcollage can be found as a part of +xscreensaver, at +.B http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/, +or on the WebCollage page at +.B http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/. -Too many of the images that it finds are text, not pictures. This is -because most of the web is pictures of text. Which is pretty sad. +DriftNet: +.B http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/ .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), @@ -186,12 +206,14 @@ because most of the web is pictures of text. Which is pretty sad. .BR vidwhacker (1), .BR dadadodo (1), .BR driftnet (1) +.BR EtherPEG , +.BR EtherPeek .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 1998-2002 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 +Copyright \(co 1998-2004 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 +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. .SH AUTHOR