telak(1) draw local or remote pictures on your root window

SYNOPSIS

telak [options]

DESCRIPTION

telak is a program that draw local or remote pictures on your root window. This is very useful if you want to have webcam, graphs or something like this drawn above your wallpaper.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h --help
Show summary of options.

-v --version
Show version of program.

-d --display
Specify display.

-c --config
Specify configuration file.

--cache
Specify cache directory.

CONFIGURATION FILE

The format is pretty simple. Each image have to be declared in a section, which is defined like this: [image_name]

After this, you will have to declare options you want.

url = <url or path>
URL (http, ftp) or path (/home...) to your picture. MANDATORY.

width = <size in px>
Force the width of the picture to X.

heigth = <size in px>
Force the heigth of the picture to X.

x = <position in px>
Position of the image.

y = <position in px>
Position of the image.

refresh = <time in seconds>
Reload image every X seconds.

reverse = <1 or 0>
Reverse color mode.

EXAMPLE

Here is a telakrc example. 

[test]
url = /home/staff/acid/test.jpg
width = 100
height = 100
x = 800
y = 600
reverse = 0
[photo]
url = http://www.somedomaine.com/somepath/arf.png
x = 200
y = 0
refresh = 300
reverse = 1

FILES

~/.telak/telakrc
Main configuration file.

~/.telak/cache
Default cache directory.

AUTHOR

Julien Danjou <[email protected]>

HOMEPAGE

http://julien.danjou.info/telak.html

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