xscreensaver-text(1)

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version 6.09 · 4 versions
, in debian trixie

✨ xscreensaver-text ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the xscreensaver-text(1) page — that's the lil script from the XScreenSaver manual and she is, genuinely, so useful 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

xscreensaver-text — prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xscreensaver-text [--verbose] [--columns N] [--lines N] [--latin1]
[--date] [--text STRING] [--file PATH] [--program CMD] [--url URL]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So the xscreensaver-text script prints out some text for use by various screensavers, and it decides what to print based on the options you set in the ~/.xscreensaver file. No cap.

It might dump the contents of a file, run a program, or load a URL — dealer's choice 🎀 And then the text gets reformatted and wrapped as appropriate, because we are nothing if not presentable.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

xscreensaver-text accepts the following options:

  • --verbose or --v — print diagnostics to stderr. Multiple -v switches increase the amount of output. (not me cranking up the verbosity for the drama 💀)
  • --columns N or --cols N — where to wrap lines; default 72 columns.
  • --lines N — truncate output to at most this many lines. Default: unlimited. go off, endless text 👑
  • --latin1 — convert any UTF-8 characters in the input to their closest Latin1 equivalent for output.

Command line options may be used to override the settings in the ~/.xscreensaver file:

  • --date — print the host name and current time.
  • --text STRING — print out the given text. It may contain % escape sequences as per strftime(2). (iykyk 🕰️)
  • --file PATH — print the contents of the given file, re-formatting it as per the other options.
  • --program CMD — run the given program and print its output, re-formatting it as per the other options.
  • --url URL — download and print the contents of the web page. If it contains HTML, RSS, or Atom, it will be converted to plain-text. This re-downloads the document every time it is run. (yes, every time, we said what we said 😭)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, http_proxy, or https_proxy — to get the default proxy host and port.

💀 BUGS 💀

URLs should be cached, use If-Modified-Since, and obey Expires.

bestie. they are not cached. they do not obey Expires. it's giving chaos. just know that going in 🙈

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver(1), fortune(1), phosphor(6x), apple2(6x), starwars(6x), fontglide(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x),

Copyright © 2005-2021 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 20-Mar-2005.

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💖 mwah. this one's from X Version 11, version 6.09, dated 07-Jun-2024 — slay, periodt ⭐🌸

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