fontglide(6x)							XScreenSaver manual						     fontglide(6x)

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] [-fps]

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 disperse.

       -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  sys-
	       tem.  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.

       -fps    Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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(6x),  apple2(6x),  starwars(6x),	ljlatest(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x),
       driftnet(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
       purpose	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 representations are made about the suitability of this software for  any
       purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

AUTHOR

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

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