1fontglide(6x)                 XScreenSaver manual                fontglide(6x)
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NAME

6       fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words
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SYNOPSIS

9       fontglide  [-display  host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-install]
10       [-visual visual] [-delay usecs]  [-scroll]  [-page]  [-random]  [-speed
11       float]  [-linger  float]  [-program  sh-command] [-font font-name] [-bw
12       int] [-trails] [-db] [-debug]
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DESCRIPTION

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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OPTIONS

21       fontglide accepts the following options:
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23       -window Draw on a newly-created window.  This is the default.
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25       -root   Draw on the root window.
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27       -install
28               Install a private colormap for the window.
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30       -visual visual
31               Specify  which  visual  to use.  Legal values are the name of a
32               visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of  a  specific
33               visual.
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35       -delay usecs
36               The  delay  between  steps  of  the animation, in microseconds:
37               default 10000.
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39       -page   With this option, a page full of text will glide in,  and  dis‐
40               perse.
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42       -scroll With this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.
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44       -random The default is to pick randomly between -page and  -scroll.
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46       -speed float
47               How  fast  to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as
48               fast.  Default 1.0.
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50       -linger float
51               How long to leave the assembled text on  the  screen  in  -page
52               mode;  2  means twice as long, 0.5 means half as long.  Default
53               1.0.  (The more words there are on the screen,  the  longer  it
54               lingers.)
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56       -program sh-command
57               The  command  to  run  to  generate  the text to display.  This
58               option may be any string acceptable to  /bin/sh.   The  program
59               will  be run at the end of a pipe, and any words that it prints
60               to stdout will end up on  the  window.   (Whitespace  and  line
61               breaks are ignored.)  If the program exits, it will be launched
62               again after  we  have  processed  all  the  text  it  produced.
63               Default: xscreensaver-text(1).
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65       -font string
66               The  base  font pattern to use when loading fonts.  The default
67               is to search for any Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on  the
68               system.   Once  a base font is selected, it will be loaded in a
69               random size.
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71       -bw int How thick an outline to draw around the characters.  Default  2
72               pixels.
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74       -trails Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text.  Default off.
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76       -no-db  Turn off double-buffering.  It may be faster, but will flicker.
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78       -debug  Draw  some  boxes showing character metrics, and print the name
79               of the current font to stderr.
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ENVIRONMENT

82       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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84       XENVIRONMENT
85               to get the name of a resource file that  overrides  the  global
86               resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
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SEE ALSO

89       xscreensaver(1),    xscreensaver-text(1),   fortune(1),   phosphor(6x),
90       apple2(6x), starwars(6x),  ljlatest(6x),  dadadodo(1),  webcollage(6x),
91       driftnet(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek
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94       Copyright  ©  2003 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, modify,
95       distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for  any  pur‐
96       pose  is  hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
97       notice appear in all copies and that both  that  copyright  notice  and
98       this  permission  notice appear in supporting documentation.  No repre‐
99       sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur‐
100       pose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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AUTHOR

103       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Sep-2003.
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