linuxnews-ticker(1)

NAME

linuxnews-ticker, slashdot-ticker, freshmeat-ticker - scroll linux news headlines across the screen

SYNOPSIS

linuxnews-ticker [options] -- [ticker options]
slashdot-ticker [options] -- [ticker options]
freshmeat-ticker [options] -- [ticker options]

DESCRIPTION

linuxnexw-ticker , freshmeat-ticker , and slashdot-ticker put a display of current headlines on your screen. linuxnews-ticker displays both Slashdot and Freshmeat headlines, the other two commands display only only headlines from their respective web sites. It will query the servers for new headlines every 30 minutes. (Slashdot does not want us to query them more often, and Freshmeat only updates every 2 hours.)

KEYS

Please see the KEYS section in ticker(1)

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Show summary of options.

-f, --finger: Get new headlines via finger protocol, rather than the default of http. Only useful if Slashdot headlines are being displayed, ignored for Freshmeat.

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

-c, --comments: Do not display the number of comments on an article.

-s, --section: Do not display the section of an article.

-d, --dept: Do not display the department of an article.

-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.

ENVIRONMENT

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.

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)

BUGS

Currently the --age option assumes that slashdot and freshmeat are in the EDT timezone. This will probably change sometime this fall, and break the program. Hopefully by then I will have fixed it.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <[email protected]>