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sm

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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