sm(6)
NAME
sm - Displays a short text fullscreen
SYNOPSIS
sm [ OPTIONS ] [ text | - ]
DESCRIPTION
Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running. After a short timeout, the text entry and the quit button will disappear, leaving nothing on the screen but the entered text. To continue entering text, just start typing or (left-)click anywhere on the screen. To clear the displayed text, press Escape. To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q, or Escape twice, or click the "Quit"-button.
OPTIONS
[ text | - ]
Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "-" is passed
to sm, it will read the text to display from the standard input,
see REMOTE CONTROLLING SM.
-f, --foreground=colordesc
Define a different color to use for the foreground of the text
to display than black. The text string can be in any of the
forms accepted by XParseColor; these include name for a color
from rgb.txt, such as DarkSlateGray, or a hex specification such
as #3050b2 or #35b.
-b, --background=colordesc
Define a different color to use for the background of the text
to display than white. For possible values, see above.
-n, --font=fontspec
Define a different font to use than the default sans-serif font
of your system. The fontspec be the complete name for a truetype
font (like "DejaVu Sans" or "Bitstream Vera Serif") or just a
short font family specification ("serif", "sans-serif").
-r, --rotate=rotation
Rotates the display by rotation*90 degrees counter-clock-wise.
So -r 1 rotates the display to the left, and -r 2 puts it upside
down.
-a, --align=alignment
Aligns the text centered (-a 0), left (-a 1) or right (-a 2).
-- (Double dash) End option parsing. This is used to be able to
actually hand over text that starts of with an dash.
-h, --help
This option will give you a short usage message summarizing the
recognized options and quits.
-V, --version
This prints the project name together with its version number
quits.
REMOTE CONTROLLING SM
If sm is called with - as a command line argument, it will read the text to be shown from the standard input. It will read the input until it reaches the end of the file, or the line feed character \f, and show the input read so far at once. Newline characters at the beginning or the end are ignored. The input is assumed to be UTF-8 encoded (see utf8(7)). This can be used to create automatic displays of changing data or similar tricks. For example, the following command will create a simple digital watch: (while sleep 1; do date +%T; echo -e '\f'; done) | sm -
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-
breitner.de> and updated by Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> to reflect
additions for commandline option handling.
November 24, 2012 SM(6)
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