termsaver (1)

termsaver [SCREEN] [OPTIONS]

Termsaver is a simple alternative for simulating command-line based screensavers right on the terminal, in text-based format.

To start the screensaver, execute Termsaver command with proper options as described in detail below, and to close it, just use the standard Ctrl+C to interrupt it (or close the terminal window if you are on a desktop environment and no longer need it).

The Termsaver application, to work properly, requires a screen as argument, which represents the name of the screensaver to be loaded. Each screen, in turn, will have its own set of optional arguments, documented in its help option.

Here follows a list of currently available screens (note that this information might become outdated if updates are not fully documented here, so always rely on the help option to display all screens available):

quotes4all

displays recent quotes from quotes4all.net

asciiartfarts

displays ascii images from asciiartfarts.com (NSFW)

rssfeed

displays rss feed information

clock

displays a digital clock on screen

randtxt

displays word in random places on screen

rfc

randomly displays RFC contents

programmer

displays source code in typing animation

urlfetcher

displays url contents with typing animation

jokes4all

displays recent jokes from jokes4all.net (NSFW)

matrix

displays a matrix movie alike screensaver

sysmon

displays a graphic of CPU/MEM usage over time

Refer to help option for additional information for each screen usage and example.

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Displays this help message

-v, --verbose

Displays python exception errors (for debugging)

Check all available screens to use:

termsaver --help

Run random text screensaver with extra arguments:

termsaver randtxt --word HelloWorld --delay 1

See more information about this project at:

http://termsaver.info

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Termsaver was written by Bruno Braga <[email protected]>,

and contributors.

Report bugs to authors at:

http://github.com/brunobraga/termsaver