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NAME
xteddy - cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop.
SYNOPSIS
xteddy [ -wm -float -noquit -F<file> ]
[ -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y -display SERVER ]
DESCRIPTION
Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop.
Normally, xteddy just sits around doing nothing. After all, that's
what teddy bears are for. Look at him, talk to him, place heavy
windows on top of him, zap him around until he becomes dizzy, do what
you like; he will always be your true (albeit virtual) friend.
You can move xteddy with the mouse by pointing at him and dragging him
around. When clicked upon, he will pop up on top of all other windows.
If you type "q" on him, he will die (or, as I like to think of it, be
tucked away in the file system until you need him next time).
That's it. But he's cute.
OPTIONS
-wm Use the window manager. Normally, xteddy sets the
override_redirect flag for his window, which will cause most
window managers to ignore him. However, some window managers
might have problems coping with a window that is nailed directly
to the root. In that case, use this option. If possible,
instruct your window manager not to put any title bar or window
frame on the window, or xteddy will lose some of his charm.
-float
Float up on top of overlapping windows. This will make xteddy
stay in sight at all times, so you won't lose him. However, this
is a bit intrusive and quite unlike a real teddy bear, so it is
not the default action.
-noquit
Disable the "quit" command (do not quit when typing "q" in the
window, but of course still on explicit window kills or process
kills). This might seem an unnecessary option, but if you use
the -wm option Xteddy might keep receiving keyboard events even
after the mouse has left his window. I you use the -wm option in
conjunction with a click-to-type window manager, you would
probably want to include this option.
-F < file > Display another image instead of xteddy. file can be the
full name of an image file which reasonably should contain a
transparent background. If there is no such file in the current
working directory xteddy searches in
$(installation_prefix)/share/xteddy, where $(installation_prefix)
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is determined at compile time (for instance /usr/X11R6). If this
fails by default /usr/share/xteddy is searched. If there is no
such file in these directories the following appendixes where
appended to the given name: xpm, png, tif, jpg, jpeg, gif and
pnm. These files will be searched in the three directories. If
all files the last try is to append the extensions in upper
cases.
If no `-F` parameter is given file equals to xteddy or more precisely
to the name of the calling program. For instance if there is a
symlink
ln -s xteddy xpenguin
then file equals to xpenguin and the appropriate pixmaps with the name
xpenguin are searched for.
-geometry
The standard X geometry specification. Only X and Y position requests
are honored. Any height and width specifications will be ignored.
-display
Specify an X server other than the local display.
AUTHOR
Stefan Gustavson, ISY-LiTH (stegu@itn.liu.se). Xteddy is distributed
under the GNU General Public License.
BUGS
The Desktop Manager in Sun CDE (Common Desktop Environment) does not
like xteddy. Xteddy by default does not use the window manager, and so
he shows up as a sticky window on all desktops. If you don't like
this, and try to circumvent it by running him with the -wm option,
move him by grabbing him by the tummy instead of by the title bar, and
then move him partly off the screen, the image is lost and never
redrawn again, so all you see is a silhouette of a teddy bear. I have
no idea why this happens. If you know, please tell me, and if you can
fix it, please do. If you run CDE on other platforms than Sun, please
tell me if it works for you. CDE does something which xteddy does not
handle properly, and since I have a Sun with CDE myself I would like
to know what the problem is.
For most X servers, the -float option does not work properly if xteddy
is moved partially off the screen. This is the X server's fault, not
mine.
If two copies of xteddy are placed so they overlap, and both were run
with the -float option, the X server will try to put each on top of
the other in an endless loop, which looks very bad and takes a lot of
CPU power.
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Xteddy does not make use of the X resource database. I just didn't get
around to that.
Please send bug reports, fixes, suggestions, fan mail or or hacks to:
stegu@itn.liu.se.
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