xdhamma (1)

xdhamma [OPTIONS] [num]

The Dhammapada is an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It contains Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts. One of the translations is by John Richards; the other is an older translation by F. Max Muller.

xdhamma prints a graphical notification using notify\(hysend

\(hyr | \(hy\(hyrichards (Default)

Use the Richards translation.

\(hym | \(hy\(hymuller

Use the Muller translation.

\(hyp | \(hy\(hypolish

Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale).

\(hyg | \(hy\(hygrunge

Use the grunge Buddha icon with notify\(hysend.

\(hye | \(hy\(hyenso

Use the enso icon with notify\(hysend.

\(hyl | \(hy\(hylotus

Use the lotus icon with notify\(hysend.

\(hyk | \(hy\(hykdialog

Display Dhammapada verse with kdialog.

\(hyz | \(hy\(hyzenity

Display Dhammapada verse with zenity.

[num]

Print the given number verse.

To display a verse each time you log in on a graphical (X Window) session, run xdhamma in your DE session start\(hyup or ~/.xsession.

/usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hyenglish\(hytransl.txt

/usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hyalternate.txt

/usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hypolish\(hytransl.txt

notify\(hysend

Please report bugs on Launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/display-dhammapada

Author: bodhi.zazen <bodhizazen at fedoraproject dot org>

Program: Copyright GPL v3

Home Page: http://bodhizazen.net/display-dhammapada/

Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here. See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm

Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

Polish translation (by Zbigniew Becker): Public Domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain

See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/