## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

The xscreensaver-text script prints out some text for use by various screensavers, according to the options set in the ~/.xscreensaver file. This may dump the contents of a file, run a program, or load a URL.

## OPTIONS

xscreensaver-text accepts the following options:

--columns N or --cols N Where to wrap lines; default 72 columns.

--verbose or -v Print diagnostics to stderr. Multiple -v switches increase the amount of output.

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

--string STRING Print the given string. It may contain % escape sequences as per strftime (2).

--file PATH Print the contents of the given file. If --cols is specified, re-wrap the lines; otherwise, print them as-is.

--program CMD Run the given program and print its output. If --cols is specified, re-wrap the output.

--url HTTP-URL Download and print the contents of the HTTP document. If it contains HTML, RSS, or Atom, it will be converted to plain-text.

Note: this re-downloads the document every time it is run! It might be considered abusive for you to point this at a web server that you do not control!

## ENVIRONMENT

HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy to get the default HTTP proxy host and port.

## BUGS

The RSS and Atom output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale.

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

## SEE ALSO

xscreensaver-demo (1), xscreensaver (1), fortune (1), phosphor (1), apple2 (1), starwars (1), fontglide (1), dadadodo (1), webcollage (1)

http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss,

driftnet (1), EtherPEG, EtherPeek

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2005 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.