freshmeat-ticker(1)

NAME

freshmeat-ticker - scroll freshmeat news headlines across the screen

freshmeat-ticker [options] -- [ticker options]

freshmeat-ticker displays Freshmeat headlines. It will query freshmeat for new headlines every 30 minutes.

Please see the KEYS section in ticker(1)

-m num, --max=num: Display a maximum of this many messages, rather than all messages.

-a min, --age=min: Display only articles that were posted less than this many minutes ago. Note that using an age of less than 30 is pointless since the display only updates every 30 minutes anyway.

ticker options: Options to pass on to ticker(1) , the program that is responsible for actually scrolling news on the display. For example, you can use "-d.1" to increase the scrolling speed. See ticker(1) for more options.

http_proxy: If set, this points to a http proxy to use instead of connecting to the servers directly. If your proxy caches pages for longer than 30 minutes, this may not be a good thing to use, simply unset the variable to disable.

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)