1 .TH XScreenSaver 1 "30-Oct-99" "X Version 11"
3 fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words
6 [\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-install]
7 [\-visual \fIvisual\fP]
13 [\-linger \fIfloat\fP]
14 [\-program \fIsh-command\fP]
15 [\-font \fIfont-name\fP]
21 The \fIfontglide\fP program reads text from a subprocess and puts it on
22 the screen using large characters that glide in from the edges,
23 assemble, then disperse. Alternately, it can simply scroll whole
24 sentences from right to left.
27 accepts the following options:
30 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
33 Draw on the root window.
36 Install a private colormap for the window.
38 .B \-visual \fIvisual\fP\fP
39 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
40 or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
42 .B \-delay \fIusecs\fP
43 The delay between steps of the animation, in microseconds: default 10000.
46 With this option, a page full of text will glide in, and disperse.
49 With this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.
52 The default is to pick randomly between \fI\-page\fP and \fI\-scroll\fP.
54 .B \-speed \fIfloat\fP
55 How fast to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
58 .B \-linger \fIfloat\fP
59 How long to leave the assembled text on the screen in \fI\-page\fP mode;
60 2 means twice as long, 0.5 means half as long. Default 1.0. (The more
61 words there are on the screen, the longer it lingers.)
63 .B \-program \fIsh-command\fP
64 The command to run to generate the text to display. This option may be
65 any string acceptable to /bin/sh. The program will be run at the end of
66 a pipe, and any words that it prints to \fIstdout\fP will end up on
67 the window. (Whitespace and line breaks are ignored.) If the program
68 exits, it will be launched again after we have processed all the text
70 .BR xscreensaver-text (1).
72 .B \-font\fP \fIstring\fP
73 The base font pattern to use when loading fonts. The default is to search
74 for any Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on the system. Once a base font
75 is selected, it will be loaded in a random size.
78 How thick an outline to draw around the characters. Default 2 pixels.
81 Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text. Default off.
84 Turn off double-buffering. It may be faster, but will flicker.
87 Draw some boxes showing character metrics, and print the name of the
88 current font to stderr.
93 to get the default host and display number.
96 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
97 stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
100 .BR xscreensaver-text (1),
112 Copyright \(co 2003 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
113 distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is
114 hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear
115 in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice
116 appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the
117 suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without
118 express or implied warranty.
120 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Sep-2003.