ticker.app - a ticker dockapp

ticker.app [options]

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ticker.app is just like a ticker, and is designed as a dockapp that is supported by X window managers such as Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment.

It reads a file that is specified on the command line, and displays each line in a viewing area periodically. It rereads automatically when the file has been modified. If you run in a tail-mode, it ticks only the last line.

Another area to display is a popup window. The popup window may be opened by clicking the up arrow button.

You can skip to the next line by clicking the right button, and control the viewing area by dragging the horizontal scrollbar or by using the mouse wheel.

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-f, --file <file>

file to display

-t, --tail

run the application in tail mode

-d, --display <string>

display to use

-fg, --foreground <color>

foreground color (white is default)

-bg, --background <color>

background color (rgb:52/52/52 is defalt)

-p, --popup

run the application with popup window

-pp, --popup-pos [+-]x[+-]y

position of popup window

-fn, --font <fontname>

font to use

-fp, --font-popup <fontname>

font to use in popup window

-sf, --speed-fast

fast scrolling

-ss, --speed-slow

slow scrolling

-bw, --broken-wm

activate broken window manager fix

-h, --help

show this help text and exit

-v, --version

show program version and exit

-w, --windowed

run the application in windowed mode

-h, --help

show summary of options.

-v, --version

show version of program.

Ticker.app is based on WMTicker, originally written by Jiro Sekiba <jir@shiratori.riec.tohoku.ac.jp>. More than 90% of the code has been rewritten by Seiichi SATO <ssato@sh.rim.or.jp>.

This manual page was written by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Various changes and updates performed by Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org>