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XROOTCONSOLE(1) BSD General Commands Manual XROOTCONSOLE(1) NAME
xrootconsole -- display a file (or stdin) to a transparent window SYNOPSIS
xrootconsole [options] [file] DESCRIPTION
xrootconsole is a small utility which displays its input in a transparent text box on X's root window. It will read from any file listed on the command line or, by default, from stdin. It is most useful when it reads from a FIFO; this allows you to redirect multiple commands to the FIFO and monitor their output. The options are as follows: -fg color This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. The default is ``black.'' -bg color This option specifies the color to AND with the root window, for shaded transparency. The default is ``clear.'' -bw number This option specifies the width of the border around xrootconsole in pixels. The default is 0. -bd color This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window. The default is ``black.'' -fn font This option specifies the font to use for displaying text. The default is ``fixed.'' -c number This option produces output that is number columns wide. Text is written vertically down each column in the order in which text is received from the input file. The default is 1. --topdown Forces xrootconsole to display new lines from its input at the top of the screen, scrolling previous lines down. Default behav- ior is to insert new lines at the bottom and scroll the previous lines up. --wrap Rather than truncating long lines, this option specifies that xrootconsole should wrap excess text to the following line or lines, as necessary. --ansi-color Enable color support by parsing ANSI escape sequences. -geometry geometry This option specifies the preferred size and position of the window; see X(1). The default is ``80x10+0+0.'' -h, --help Displays a detailed usage message and exits. -v, --version Displays the program version and exits. file Optionally specifies a file from which to read input; by default, xrootconsole reads from the standard input. DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails for any reason. AUTHORS
Eric Youngblut is the original author of xrootconsole. Bob Galloway <bob@de-fac.to> is the current maintainer. Alexandre Duret-Lutz elimi- nated flicker by storing the background pixmap and drawing off-screen. This manual page was written by Zak Johnson <zakj@i.am>. BSD
May 19, 2000 BSD
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XDITVIEW(1) General Commands Manual XDITVIEW(1) NAME
xditview - display ditroff output SYNOPSIS
xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename ] DESCRIPTION
The xditview program displays ditroff output on an X display. It uses no special metrics and automatically converts the printer coordi- nates into screen coordinates; using the user-specified screen resolution, rather than the actual resolution so that the appropriate fonts can be found. If ``-'' is given as the filename, xditview reads from standard input. If ``|'' is the first character of filename, xditview forks sh to run the rest of the ``file name'' and uses the standard output of that command. OPTIONS
Xditview accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along with the additional options listed below: -page page-number This option specifies the page number of the document to be displayed at start up time. -resolution screen-resolution This specifies the desired screen resolution to use; fonts will be opened by requesting this resolution field in the XLFD names. -noPolyText Some X servers incorrectly implement PolyText with multiple strings per request. This option suppresses the use of this feature in xditview. -backingStore backing-store-type Redisplay can take up to a second or so; this option causes the server to save the window contents so that when it is scrolled around the viewport, the window is painted from contents saved in backing store. backing-store-type can be one of Always, When- Mapped or NotUseful. The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments are commonly used with xditview: -bg color This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window. The default is white. -bd color This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window. The default is black. -bw number This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the window. -fg color This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. The default is black. -fn font This option specifies the font to be used for displaying widget text. The default is fixed. -rv This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by swapping the foreground and background colors. -geometry geometry This option specifies the preferred size and position of the window. -display host:display This option specifies the X server to contact. -xrm resourcestring This option specifies a resource string to be used. X DEFAULTS
This program uses a Dvi widget. It understands all of the core resource names and classes as well as: width (class Width) Specifies the width of the window. height (class Height) Specifies the height of the window. foreground (class Foreground) Specifies the default foreground color. font (class Font) Specifies the font to be used for error messages. FontMap (class FontMap) To associate the ditroff fonts with appropriate X fonts, this string resource contains a set of new-line separated specifications, each of which consists of a ditroff name, some white space and an XLFD pattern with * characters in appropriate places to allow all sizes to be listed. The default fontMap is: R -*-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 I -*-times-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 B -*-times-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 F -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 BI -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 C -*-courier-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 CO -*-courier-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 CB -*-courier-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 CF -*-courier-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 H -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 HO -*-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 HB -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 HF -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 N -*-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 NI -*-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 NB -*-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 NF -*-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 A -*-charter-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 AI -*-charter-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 AB -*-charter-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 AF -*-charter-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 S -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific S2 -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific USING XDITVIEW WITH DITROFF
You can use any ditroff output file with xditview, although files which use the fonts appropriate to the fontMap will look more accurate on the screen. On servers which support scaled fonts, all requested font sizes will be accurately reflected on the screen; for servers which do not support scaled xditview will use the closest font from the same family. SEE ALSO
X(7), xrdb(1), ditroff(1), X Logical Font Description Conventions ORIGIN
Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was derived from suntroff. COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1994 X Consortium See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions. AUTHORS
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium) Richard L. Hyde (Purdue) David Slattengren (Berkeley) Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research) Mark Moraes (University of Toronto) X Version 11 xditview 1.0.2 XDITVIEW(1)