hollywood(1)

hollywood1

Fill your console with hollywood melodrama technobabble

Usage

hollywood [{-s | --splits SPLITS}] [{-d | --delay DELAY}]

Options

-d|--delay DELAY The delay in seconds before rearranging splits (default=10s)
-s|--splits SPLITS The number of splits to divide your screen

Overview

This utility will fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble.

It will split your byobu(1) console into a multiple panes of genuine technobabble, perfectly suitable for any Hollywood geek melodrama.

It is particularly suitable on any number of computer consoles in the background of any excellent schlock technothriller.

To quit, press Ctrl-C to kill the hollywood script itself.

hollywood tries not to overwhelm your system by running widgets with the minimum scheduling priority per nice(1).

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10
  2. 11–13

Author

This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the Apache2 License.

The complete text of the Apache2 License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 on Debian/Ubuntu systems.

From hollywood 1.21-1.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.