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)
