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NAME

       aosd_cat - displays text on the screen

SYNOPSIS

       aosd_cat [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       Displays UTF-8 text in a transparent OSD frame.

       For  parameters	marked with asterisk (*) valid range is 0-255.	Those, which are marked with double asterisk (**), accept negative values.
       Coloring parameters are specified in either #RGB format or from rgb.txt.  Timing parameters are specified in milliseconds.  Scrollback lim-
       its are cancelled with 0 parameter.  Age is in seconds.

       Geometry Options:

       -p, --position
	      Sets  the OSD window position. Or to be more precise, selects the point of the screen which is told to be the beginning of the coor-
	      dinates (the 0,0 point) AND selects the point of the OSD window to collocate with it. Valid range is 0-8, where 0 is top-left corner
	      and 8 is bottom-right corner.  Default value is 6.

       -x, --x-offset **
	      Sets the x-axis window offset from the (0,0) point. Default value is 50.

       -y, --y-offset **
	      Sets the y-axis window offset from the (0,0) point. Default value is -50.

       -e, --shadow-offset **
	      Sets the shadow offset. Default value is 2.

       -d, --padding *
	      Sets the margin from the edge to the contents. Default value is 0.

       Appearance Options:

       -t, --transparency
	      Sets the transparency mode. 0=none, 1=fake, 2=composite. Default value is 2.

       -n, --font
	      Sets the OSD font. No default value.

       -w, --width
	      Sets  the  OSD wrapping width in pixels. If set to zero, text will be wrapped on screen width or will not be wrapped at all if other
	      parameters make it impossible to layout correctly. Default value is 0.

       Coloring Options:

       -B, --back-color
	      Sets the background color. No default value.

       -S, --shadow-color
	      Sets the shadow color. Default value is black.

       -R, --fore-color
	      Sets the foreground color. Default value is green.

       Opacity Options:

       -b, --back-opacity *
	      Sets the background opacity. Default value is 0.

       -s, --shadow-opacity *
	      Sets the shadow opacity. Default value is 192.

       -r, --fore-opacity *
	      Sets the foreground opacity. Default value is 255.

       Timing Options:

       -f, --fade-in
	      Sets the fade in time. Default value is 300.

       -u, --fade-full
	      Sets the time to show with full opacity. Default value is 3000.

       -o, --fade-out
	      Sets the fade out time. Default value is 300.

       Scrollback Options:

       -a, --age
	      Sets the line age removal limit. Default value is 0.

       -l, --lines
	      Sets the line amount removal limit. Default value is 1.

       Application Options:

       -i, --input
	      Sets the input text source. Default value is -.

BUGS

       This manpage may be out of date. Use --help to get the latest options.

       Thank you for using libaosd!  Please send bug reports to: http://jira.atheme.org/

aosd_cat							   November 2007							   AOSD(1)