X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fwebcollage.man;h=86c7d74a56b381bf3afafe347e72efb9d29f83ce;hp=51dbb18a1c0e633aa6840d15d77fdf739bf28f6d;hb=c28aecf9fc41e3a03494bacf7279745425e2fa18;hpb=723c9eeee862766a1534b2ce17b78adbfac1c3be diff --git a/hacks/webcollage.man b/hacks/webcollage.man index 51dbb18a..86c7d74a 100644 --- a/hacks/webcollage.man +++ b/hacks/webcollage.man @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ 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: @@ -151,12 +156,19 @@ 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. +.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 search engines. .PP -.I http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl, http://image.altavista.com/ -To find random web pages. +.I http://image.altavista.com/, +.I http://images.google.com/, +.I http://news.yahoo.com/ +.I http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl, +and +.I http://lycospro.lycos.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 @@ -165,10 +177,19 @@ visual specification (see the .BR xscreensaver (1) manual for more details.) -Animating GIFs are not supported. +Animating GIFs are not supported: only the first frame will be used. 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. +.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/. + +DriftNet: +.B http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/ .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), @@ -186,12 +207,14 @@ 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 1998-2002 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 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