debian man page for sm

Query: sm

OS: debian

Section: 6

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SM(6)								   Games Manual 							     SM(6)

NAME
sm - Displays a short text fullscreen
SYNOPSIS
sm [OPTIONS] [text|-]
DESCRIPTION
Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running. After a short timeout, the text entry and the quit button will disappear, leaving nothing on the screen but the entered text. To continue entering text, just start typing or (left-)click anywhere on the screen. To clear the displayed text, press Escape. To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q or press the button.
OPTIONS
[text] Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "-" is passed to sm, it will read the text to display from stdin. -f, --foreground=colordesc Define a different color to use for the foreground of the text to display than black. The text string can be in any of the forms accepted by XParseColor; these include name for a color from rgb.txt, such as DarkSlateGray, or a hex specification such as #3050b2 or #35b. -b, --background=colordesc Define a different color to use for the background of the text to display than white. For possible values, see above. -n, --font=fontspec Define a different font to use than the default sans-serif font of your system. The fontspec be the complete name for a truetype font (like "DejaVu Sans" or "Bitstream Vera Serif") or just a short font family specification ("serif", "sans-serif"). -r, --rotate=rotation Rotates the display by rotation*90 degrees counter-clock-wise. So -r 1 rotates the display to the left, and -r 2 puts it upside down. -- (Double dash) End option parsing. This is used to be able to actually hand over text that starts of with an dash. -h, --help This option will give you a short usage message summarizing the recognized options and quits. -V, --version This prints the project name together with its version number quits.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> and updated by Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> to reflect addi- tions for commandline option handling. August 05, 2008 SM(6)
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