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Introduction:
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Run "ticker text" to just display text on the screen. See the man page for
more info.
If you're a slashdot news junkie, you'll want to use slashdot-ticker. I'm
fond of running it with the following options, myself:
slashdot-ticker -a 120 -- -d 0.3
(Ie, scroll fairly fast, and only display articles younger than 2 hours
old.)
If you're into freshmeat, use freshmeat-ticker, or if you like them both,
linuxnews-ticker.
The programming interface:
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Setting up a program to communicate with ticker and make it change the text
it displays periodically isn't too hard if you understand shared memory.
Take a look at the sysinfo-ticker for a simple example that you can modify
for your own purposes. Basically, you open a non-private shared memory
segment of a given size, and then you pass its id number to ticker via -s
Please report any problems to Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>.
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