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)