Introduction: ------------ 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: ------------------------- 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>.
