ljlatest(6x)

ljlatest6x

Prints the most recent public posts on livejournal.com.

Usage

ljlatest [--verbose] [--columns N]

Overview

The ljlatest script reads the most recent public posts made to livejournal.com, and prints them on stdout, after doing a rudimentary conversion of HTML to plain text.

This script is just a wrapper around

xscreensaver-text \
  --url http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml

As of XScreenSaver 4.21, you can just use use above URL in the "Text URL" field on the "Advanced" tab in xscreensaver-demo(1).

Releases

9 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11

Bugs

This program makes it seem like morons have invaded your screen saver.

The output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale.

Author

Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]>, 30-Aug-2003.

From xscreensaver-data-extra 5.45+dfsg1-2 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.