1fontglide(6x) XScreenSaver manual fontglide(6x)
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6 fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words
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9 fontglide [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root] [--win‐
10 dow-id number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay usecs] [--scroll]
11 [--page] [--random] [--speed float] [--linger float] [--program sh-com‐
12 mand] [--font font-name] [--bw int] [--trails] [--db] [--debug] [--fps]
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15 The fontglide program reads text from a subprocess and puts it on the
16 screen using large characters that glide in from the edges, assemble,
17 then disperse. Alternately, it can simply scroll whole sentences from
18 right to left.
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21 fontglide accepts the following options:
22 --window
24 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
25 --root Draw on the root window.
27 --window-id number
29 Draw on the specified window.
30 --install
32 Install a private colormap for the window.
33 --visual visual
35 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
36 visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
37 visual.
38 --delay usecs
40 The delay between steps of the animation, in microseconds: de‐
41 fault 10000.
42 --page With this option, a page full of text will glide in, and dis‐
44 perse.
45 --scroll
47 With this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.
48 --random
50 The default is to pick randomly between --page and --scroll.
51 --speed float
53 How fast to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as
54 fast. Default 1.0.
55 --linger float
57 How long to leave the assembled text on the screen in --page
58 mode; 2 means twice as long, 0.5 means half as long. Default
59 1.0. (The more words there are on the screen, the longer it
60 lingers.)
61 --program sh-command
63 The command to run to generate the text to display. This op‐
64 tion may be any string acceptable to /bin/sh. The program will
65 be run at the end of a pipe, and any words that it prints to
66 stdout will end up on the window. (Whitespace and line breaks
67 are ignored.) If the program exits, it will be launched again
68 after we have processed all the text it produced. Default:
69 xscreensaver-text(6x).
70 --font string
72 The base font pattern to use when loading fonts. The default
73 is to search for any Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on the
74 system. Once a base font is selected, it will be loaded in a
75 random size.
76 --bw int
78 How thick an outline to draw around the characters. Default 2
79 pixels.
80 --trails
82 Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text. Default off.
83 --no-db Turn off double-buffering. It may be faster, but will flicker.
85 --debug Draw some boxes showing character metrics, and print the name
87 of the current font to stderr.
88 --fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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92 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
93 XENVIRONMENT
95 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
96 resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
97 XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
99 The window ID to use with --root.
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107 Copyright © 2003 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
108 distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur‐
109 pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
110 notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
111 this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre‐
112 sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur‐
113 pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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116 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Sep-2003.
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