XDHAMMA(1)

📦 version 1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute

okay so you typed man xdhamma and now you're in the XDHAMMA(1) zone, bestie. Buckle up, this one's short but it's iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

xdhamma — graphical displayed verse from the Dhammapada. ✨

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

xdhamma [OPTIONS] [num]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so context first, because you deserve it. 🫶 The Dhammapada is an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It's full of Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts, and it's genuinely such a vibe. One of the translations is by John Richards; the other is an older translation by F. Max Muller. Both are in here, no cap.

xdhamma prints a graphical notification using notify-send. That's it, that's the whole thing. 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -r, --richards — Use the Richards translation. (This is the Default, so if you don't pick anything, this is what you get. Main character behaviour honestly.)
  • -m, --muller — Use the Muller translation.
  • -p, --polish — Use the Polish translation. (This is the default when your locale is Polish.)
  • -g, --grunge — Use the grunge Buddha icon with notify-send. 🔥
  • -e, --enso — Use the enso icon with notify-send.
  • -l, --lotus — Use the lotus icon with notify-send.
  • -k, --kdialog — Display the Dhammapada verse with kdialog.
  • -z, --zenity — Display the Dhammapada verse with zenity.
  • [num] — Print the given number verse. Like, you want verse 42? Say 42. Slay. ⭐

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Wanna get a verse every single time you log in on a graphical (X Window) session? Run xdhamma in your DE session start-up, or drop it in ~/.xsession. Lowkey the coziest little ritual. 🦋

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-english-transl.txt
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-alternate.txt
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-polish-transl.txt

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

notify-send — that's the whole list, she's the only one invited. 💜

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Please report bugs on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/display-dhammapada

Not me begging you to file the bug instead of just suffering in silence. 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here. See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm

Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

Polish translation (by Zbigniew Becker): Public Domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain

See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 Version 1.0, dated April 2003 — yes she's an elder but she still ate, and she's still serving verses to this day. Periodt. 🎀🌸💅

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