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.TH SM 6 "August 05, 2008"
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.SH NAME
sm \- Displays a short text fullscreen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sm
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.RI [ text | \- ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR Screen\ Message
will display a given multi-line message as large as
possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either
when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.
.PP
After a short timeout, the text entry and the quit button will disappear, leaving
nothing on the screen but the entered text. To continue entering text, just start
typing or (left-)click anywhere on the screen.
.PP
To clear the displayed text, press Escape.
.PP
To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q or press the button.
.br
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.RI [ text ]
Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "\-" is passed to sm,
it will read the text to display from stdin.
.TP
.BI \-f,\ \-\-foreground= colordesc
Define a different color to use for the foreground of the text to
display than black. The text string can be in any of the forms accepted
by XParseColor; these include name for a color from rgb.txt, such as
DarkSlateGray, or a hex specification such as #3050b2 or #35b.
.TP
.BI \-b,\ \-\-background= colordesc
Define a different color to use for the background of the text to
display than white. For possible values, see above.
.TP
.BI \-n,\ \-\-font= fontspec
Define a different font to use than the default sans-serif font of your
system. The fontspec be the complete name for a truetype font (like
"DejaVu Sans" or "Bitstream Vera Serif") or just a short font family
specification ("serif", "sans-serif").
.TP
.BI \-r,\ \-\-rotate= rotation
Rotates the display by rotation*90 degrees counter-clock-wise. So \-r 1
rotates the display to the left, and \-r 2 puts it upside down.
.TP
.BI \-\-
(Double dash) End option parsing. This is used to be able to actually hand over text
that starts of with an dash.
.TP
.BI \-h,\ \-\-help
This option will give you a short usage message summarizing the
recognized options and quits.
.TP
.BI \-V,\ \-\-version
This prints the project name together with its version number
quits.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner
<mail@joachim-breitner.de> and updated by Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>
to reflect additions for commandline option handling.
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