NAME

       ticker - scroll messages across the screen

SYNOPSIS

       ticker [options] [message]

DESCRIPTION

       ticker  is  a  program  that  continually  scrolls  a  given message across the screen.  There is also an
       interface to allow other programs to change the message.

KEYS

       +, [up arrow]
              Increase scroll speed.

       -, [down arrw]
              Decrease scroll speed.

       [space]
              Pause. Press any key to unpause.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -u, --upper
              Scroll text on the top line of the screen. (Default)

       -l, --lower
              Scroll text on the bottom line of the screen.

       -fcolor, --foreground=color
              Use the specified color as the foreground color of the text that is scrolled.  The colors that may
              be used are:
               black           gray
               red             brightred
               green           brightgreen
               brown           yellow
               blue            brightblue
               magenta         brightmagenta
               cyan            brightcyan
               lightgray       white

       -bcolor, --background=color
              Use the specified color as the background color of the text that is scrolled. On  most  terminals,
              the background color can only be one of the colors listed in the first column above.

       -dsecs, --delay=secs
              Number  of  seconds delay between updates of the display. This controls how fast the text scrolls.
              You may use decimals to specify faster scroll speeds.  The default delay is 1 second; I  find  0.1
              more pleasing.

       -snum, --sysv=num
              Read  messages  to display from the sysv shared memory segment with an id of num. This is only for
              use by other programs that need to be able to change the text ticker displays.

       -Snum, --size=num
              Size of the shared memory segment to read, when using shared  memory  communication  with  another
              program. Default is 80 characters.

       -csecs, --check=secs
              Minimum  time  between  checks  of  the shared memory segment for a new message.  Default is every
              second. It may in fact check considerably less often, as it only checks for a new message once per
              time that the current message scrolls around the screen.

       message
              The message to scroll. Required unless -s is used, in which case it is optional.

NOTES

       To use the other 23 or so lines of your screen for something useful while  the  ticker  is  running,  you
       might want to use splitvt(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

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