DTHELLO(1)

💖 dthello — CDE login transitional greeting 💖

okay so this is the dthello(user cmd) manual page, bestie — it's giving “CDE login transitional greeting” in the most literal way possible. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

dthello — CDE login transitional greeting. Periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dthello [-display &<display>]  [-fground &<color>]  [-bground &<color>]
[-font &<fontname>]  [-string &<message>]  [-file &<filename>]
[-timeout &<seconds>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The dthello client provides transition visuals from the end of login to the start of the window manager in the user's session. Iconic transition behavior. ✨

Upon invocation, the dthello client will create an override-redirect window the size of the screen and draw a specified message on it. At the same time, a 1x1 window is created that will be picked up by the window manager. When the window manager reparents the little window — an indication that the window manager has started — this program exits. 💀

The message may be specified on the command line, or in a text file. Easy. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Note: The dthello client is designed to be started by the system and is not intended to be started directly by users. fr fr, leave this one to the system, bestie. 🙈

• -display display — Display id. 🖥️
• -fground color — Foreground color. 🎨
• -bground color — Background color. 🖌️
• -font fontname — Font. 🔤
• -string message — String to be displayed in window. 💬
• -file filename — Text file name whose contents will be displayed in window. This option may be specified up to five times. Five! Not four, not six, iykyk. 🗂️
• -timeout seconds — Number of seconds before giving up on the window manager and terminating. ⏳

🌈 RETURN 🌈

Exit values are:

• 0 — Successful completion. Slay. ✅
• >0 — Error condition occurred. Oops. 🚨

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

The example is literally this, line break and all:

dthello -string Welcome to the Desktop Transition window will contain
this message.

So the window will contain that message — the example and the explanation are kinda holding hands here. 🫶

🎀 RESOURCES 🎀

NOTE: Resources should be prefaced with the string "Dthello*" when specified. Resources should be specified in the Dthello app-defaults file. 🎀

The resource table has these columns: Name, Class, Type, Default. Here's every row, no cap:

• Name: vbackground — Class: Vbackground — Type: Pixel — Default: dynamic
• Name: vforeground — Class: Vforeground — Type: Pixel — Default: dynamic
• Name: vfont — Class: Vfont — Type: FontList — Default: dynamic
• Name: string — Class: String — Type: String — Default: .........
• Name: file — Class: File — Type: String — Default: NULL
• Name: timeout — Class: Timeout — Type: Integer — Default: 240

💜 vbackground 💜

The original literally drops a stray Caret1 line right here, so we're keeping it exactly:

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Specifies the background color for the transition message. Background color, handled. ✨

💙 vforeground 💙

Specifies the foreground color for the transition message. 🎨

🧚 vfont 🧚

Specifies the font to use for the transition message. 🔤

🌸 string 🌸

Specifies the text to use in the transition message. 💬

🦋 file 🦋

Specifies a file whose contents is to be displayed in addition to the transition message. Only one file may be specified. One. Uno. 🗂️

⏳ timeout ⏳

Number of seconds before giving up on the window manager and terminating. ⏳

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💖 and that's the whole dthello(user cmd) page, bestie — the footer only has dthello(user cmd) again, with no extra source/version or date deets, so this cute sign-off is standing in for it. 🎀✨