TELAK(1)TELAK(1)NAME
telak - draw local or remote pictures on your root window
SYNOPSIS
telak [options]
DESCRIPTION
telak is a program that draw local or remote pictures on your root window. This is very useful if you want to have webcam, graphs or some-
thing like this drawn above your wallpaper.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-h --help
Show summary of options.
-v --version
Show version of program.
-d --display
Specify display.
-c --config
Specify configuration file.
--cache
Specify cache directory.
CONFIGURATION FILE
The format is pretty simple. Each image have to be declared in a section, which is defined like this: [image_name]
After this, you will have to declare options you want.
url = <url or path>
URL (http, ftp) or path (/home...) to your picture. MANDATORY.
width = <size in px>
Force the width of the picture to X.
heigth = <size in px>
Force the heigth of the picture to X.
x = <position in px>
Position of the image.
y = <position in px>
Position of the image.
refresh = <time in seconds>
Reload image every X seconds.
reverse = <1 or 0>
Reverse color mode.
EXAMPLE
Here is a telakrc example.
[test]
url = /home/staff/acid/test.jpg
width = 100
height = 100
x = 800
y = 600
reverse = 0
[photo]
url = http://www.somedomaine.com/somepath/arf.png
x = 200
y = 0
refresh = 300
reverse = 1
FILES
~/.telak/telakrc
Main configuration file.
~/.telak/cache
Default cache directory.
AUTHOR
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
HOMEPAGE
http://julien.danjou.info/telak.html
February 8, 2005 TELAK(1)
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GKRELLKAM-LIST(5) File Formats Manual GKRELLKAM-LIST(5)NAME
gkrellkam-list - format of the list description files used by GKrellKam
DESCRIPTION
GKrellKam lists describe a series of image sources, used in order or at random by the GKrellKam plugin. Online lists (downloadable by
GKrellKam with HTTP) use this same syntax.
Blank lines and comments (beginning with '#') in GKrellKam lists are ignored. Every line of text that does not begin with a tab character
is considered an image source.
An image source can be one of several types:
image Sources of type image consist of a complete local filename to an image file.
url Type url is just that; a ftp:// or http:// URL pointing at an online image file.
script Type script is a system command, executed in a shell by GKrellKam when it's time to get this image. The output of the command is
assumed to be a complete filename of a local image file, optionally terminated with newlines/whitespace. The corresponding image is
loaded.
list Type list causes a different GKrellKam list to be included in the current one.
Each image source line should look like this:
type: name
The "type: " part of the line can be omitted for images and URLs, to make these list files backwards compatible with earlier versions of
GKrellKam, but it is suggested that you specify them. It will enhance the readability of the list file.
There are also properties that can be applied to types image, url, and script. Properties must follow the image source line that they mod-
ify, and must begin with a tab character. These include:
tooltip
This sets the message shown when the mouse is kept over the image panel in GKrellKam for a few seconds. If not set, the image's
filename or URL is shown instead.
seconds
This changes the number of seconds that an image will remain displayed. If not set, the "Default number of seconds" set for that
panel in the GKrellM configuration window will be used.
refresh
If set, this sets the minimum length of time that must elapse before the image is re-loaded. If the image cycles up before that
time, the old image will be used. For script types, this means that the script will not be re-run. For url types, the image will not
be fetched using wget. When this property is not set, url images will be downloaded every time they are displayed, and scripts will
be run every time.
EXAMPLE
This is a simple example of a GKrellKam list. For a better example, see example.list from this distribution.
# .krellkam.list
# This list rotates through ~/pics/mypic[1-4].jpg along with a
# webcam, and then displays the pictures in ~/lists/sub.list
image: /home/paul/pics/mypic1.jpg
/home/paul/pics/mypic2.jpg
image: /home/paul/pics/mypic3.jpg
http://www.usu.edu/webcam/fullsize.jpg
[tab] tooltip: This is the building where I work
image: /home/paul/pics/mypic4.jpg
[tab] seconds: 4
[tab] tooltip: Don't display this one very long
list: /home/paul/lists/sub.list
FILES
$HOME/.krellkam.list - The default source for the first GKrellKam panel
example.list - A sample GKrellKam list
AUTHOR
GKrellKam was written by paul cannon <paul@cannon.cs.usu.edu>. This manual page was written by the same author for inclusion in the GKrel-
lKam distribution, and may be used by others.
SEE ALSO wget(8)
Dec 7, 2001 GKRELLKAM-LIST(5)