XTT(1) xtt XTT(1)
13 Jan 1995
NAME
xtt - XTimeTable
SYNOPSIS
xtt [X-Toolkit Options...] [XTT Options]
DESCRIPTION
This program is mainly for students, like me, that have to try to drag
themselves away from a computer in time for lectures. It reads in a
timetable from a file (~/.xtt) and displays it in a window a day at a
time. A warning is popped up a number of minutes before a lecture or
appointment is due to start.
OPTIONS
Xtt accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along
with the additional options listed below. See X(1).
-slots number
This sets the number of slots or entries for each day
(default: 9). The tabletable file must contain exactly 5
times this number of entries - one for each day of the week.
-hour hour
This is the hour digit of the time the first slot of each day
starts (default: 9).
-minute minutes
This is the offset in minutes of every slot from the hour
(default: 5 - all slots start at 5 minutes past the hour).
-12
Switch to 12 hour clock notation, instead of the default 24.
-nowarn
This disables the warnings which popup a certain time before
each non-empty slot is due to start.
-warning minutes
This defines the length of time before non-empty slots that a
warning is given, if not disabled (default: 10).
-file xtt_file
This specifies a different file to be read as the timetable
file, instead of the default ~/.xtt. This is useful to see if
a collegue is at a lecture - if their .xtt file is readable by
you, do: xtt ~usercode/.xtt.
-mono
This activates reduced colour mode which is entirely black and
white, apart from the about popup. This option is
automatically set if the program is run on a black and white
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display.
-bcol colour
This option can be used to change the colour of all buttons.
The default setting is "chocolate", or "white" if the -mono
option is set.
FILE FORMAT
The file format for the timetable file is as follows:
Lines beginning with '#' and blank lines are ignored. There must be
an entry for every slot of every weekday, one per line - which is 5 *
(number of slots in a day) lines of entries. An entry beginning with
'-' indicates an empty slot - no warning for it is given. All entries
are of the form description/location/colour. The two rightmost
sections can be omitted. The first two sections, description and
location are printed in two columns, for each slot. The colour section
specifies the background colour of that slot. To aid colouring by
subject, if no colour is specified, all previous entries are searched
for the same description section, and the colour of that is used.
Therefore the colour of a subject only needs to be given once, for its
first ocurrence in the file.
LIMITATIONS
It is intended for a specific purpose, and is therefore fairly
inflexible. The offset from the hour of the lectures, the number and
start time of lectures can be changed, but they can only be on
weekdays, and all last one hour. If you want a flexible appointment
system then go somewhere else.
FILES
~/.xtt file containing the timetable to be displayed
AUTHOR
Matt Chapman
csuoq@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~csuoq
COPYRIGHT
IMPORTANT: This software comes with NO warranty whatsoever. I
therefore take no responsibility for any damages, losses or problems
caused through use or misuse of this program.
I hereby grant permission for this program to be freely copied and
distributed by any means, provided that this and all other copyright
notices remain unchanged. However, this program and all its code still
belong to me, and I reserve the right to be identified as the author
of it.
Matthew Chapman. Jan 1995.
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