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NAME

       fontglide - characters float onto the screen to form words


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

       The fontglide program reads text from a subprocess and puts it  on  the
       screen  using  large characters that glide in from the edges, assemble,
       then disperse.  Alternately, it can simply scroll whole sentences  from
       right to left.


OPTIONS

       fontglide accepts the following options:

       -window Draw on a newly-created window.	This is the default.

       -root   Draw on the root window.

       -install
	       Install a private colormap for the window.

       -visual visual
	       Specify	which  visual  to use.	Legal values are the name of a
	       visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of  a  specific
	       visual.

       -delay usecs
	       The  delay  between  steps  of  the animation, in microseconds:
	       default 10000.

       -page   With this option, a page full of text will glide in,  and  dis-
	       perse.

       -scroll With  this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.

       -random The default is to pick randomly between -page and  -scroll.

       -speed float
	       How fast to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means  half  as
	       fast.  Default 1.0.

       -linger float
	       How  long  to  leave  the assembled text on the screen in -page
	       mode; 2 means twice as long, 0.5 means half as  long.   Default
	       1.0.   (The  more  words there are on the screen, the longer it
	       lingers.)

       -program sh-command
	       The command to run to  generate	the  text  to  display.   This
	       option  may  be	any string acceptable to /bin/sh.  The program
	       will be run at the end of a pipe, and any words that it	prints
	       to  stdout  will  end  up  on the window.  (Whitespace and line
	       breaks are ignored.)  If the program exits, it will be launched
	       again  after  we  have  processed  all  the  text  it produced.
	       Default: xscreensaver-text(1).

       -font string
	       The base font pattern to use when loading fonts.   The  default
	       is  to search for any Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on the
	       system.	Once a base font is selected, it will be loaded  in  a
	       random size.

       -bw int How  thick an outline to draw around the characters.  Default 2
	       pixels.

       -trails Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text.  Default off.

       -no-db  Turn off double-buffering.  It may be faster, but will flicker.

       -debug  Draw  some  boxes showing character metrics, and print the name
	       of the current font to stderr.


ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

       XENVIRONMENT
	       to get the name of a resource file that	overrides  the	global
	       resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.


SEE ALSO

       xscreensaver(1),    xscreensaver-text(1),    fortune(1),   phosphor(1),
       apple2(1), starwars(1), ljlatest(1), dadadodo(1), webcollage(1), drift-
       net(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek


COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, modify,
       distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for  any  pur-
       pose  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 repre-
       sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur-
       pose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.


AUTHOR

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



X Version 11		      4.24 (21-Oct-2005)	       XScreenSaver(1)


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