xscreensaver-text (1) Linux Manual Page
xscreensaver-text – prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers.
Synopsis
xscreensaver-text [–verbose] [–columns N] [–text STRING] [–file PATH] [–program CMD] [–url URL]Description
The xscreensaver-text script prints out some text for use by various screensavers, according to the options set in the ~/.xscreensaver file. This may dump the contents of a file, run a program, or load a URL.Options
xscreensaver-text accepts the following options:- –columns N or –cols N
- Where to wrap lines; default 72 columns.
- –verbose or -v
- Print diagnostics to stderr. Multiple -v switches increase the amount of output.
Command line options may be used to override the settings in the ~/.xscreensaver file:
- –string STRING
- Print the given string. It may contain % escape sequences as per strftime(2).
- –file PATH
- Print the contents of the given file. If –cols is specified, re-wrap the lines; otherwise, print them as-is.
- –program CMD
- Run the given program and print its output. If –cols is specified, re-wrap the output.
- –url HTTP-URL
- Download and print the contents of the HTTP document. If it contains HTML, RSS, or Atom, it will be converted to plain-text.
Note: this re-downloads the document every time it is run! It might be considered abusive for you to point this at a web server that you do not control!
Environment
- HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy
- to get the default HTTP proxy host and port.
Bugs
The RSS and Atom output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale. URLs should be cached, use "If-Modified-Since", and obey "Expires".
See Also
xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreensaver(1), fortune(1), phosphor(1), apple2(1), starwars(1), fontglide(1), dadadodo(1), webcollage(1),- http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml,
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss,
- driftnet(1), EtherPEG, EtherPeek
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss,