BANNER(1x)

📦 version 2.2.12, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about Banner today. this is a 1x manual page, iykyk, and it's literally the whole personality of one tiny little module. no cap, it's short, it's iconic, let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Banner — the AfterStep Logo module 🎀

like. that's it. that's the name. it does the logo thing. main character energy fr fr.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Banner

that's the whole invocation bestie, just the one word, no flags, no arguments, nothing. she's low maintenance 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: the Banner module displays an AfterStep Logo on the screen for 20 seconds. twenty. seconds. that's the whole show. she shows up, she slays, she leaves 🌈

ngl, even though Banner can be run from the command line, that's not how she usually rolls. normally she gets spawned by afterstep in the autoexec file, like this, exactly this:

Module    "I"  Banner
Wait      "I"  Banner

see how she's got a whole Wait line? yeah, because you gotta let her cook. periodt 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • afterstep(1x) — her parent, her origin story, the whole ecosystem 💜

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, based on the old afterstep's Banner manual page, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). giving credit where credit is due, we love to see it 💖

🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

and that's the tea bestie — this page is from February 20th, 2005, living in the BANNER(1x) section of the manual. old but iconic, we stan a legacy page 💅✨🦋

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