Banner-classic(1x)

Banner-classic1x

The banner for afterstep-classic

Usage

Banner-Classic is intended to be spawned by Afterstep Classic.

Overview

The InitBanner displays an Afterstep Logo in the center of the screen for 3 seconds.

Invocation

Banner-Classic can be invoked by binding the action 'Module Banner' to a menu or key-stroke in the .steprc file. asclassic will search directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to locate Banner. Although nothing keeps you from launching Banner-Classic at start-up time, you probably don't want to. You can also give it an optional file parameter, like 'Banner doomface.xpm' or spcify an alternate default pixmap via configuration options.

Options

*BannerPixmap file

Tells the module to display file instead of the built in pixmap.

*BannerTimeout sec

Tells the module to display for sec seconds instead of default of 3.

Todo

Support for Animated Logos (Multiple XPM)

Releases

6 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.1–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–5.0

Author

Robert Nation

Modified for Afterstep by Robert Depenbrock email: [email protected]

From asclassic 1.1b-29 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.