NAME¶

xdhamma - graphical displayed verse from the Dhammapada.

SYNOPSIS¶

xdhamma [OPTIONS] [num]

DESCRIPTION¶

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‐send

OPTIONS¶

‐r | ‐‐richards (Default)

Use the Richards translation.

‐m | ‐‐muller

Use the Muller translation.

‐p | ‐‐polish

Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale).

‐g | ‐‐grunge

Use the grunge Buddha icon with notify‐send.

‐e | ‐‐enso

Use the enso icon with notify‐send.

‐l | ‐‐lotus

Use the lotus icon with notify‐send.

‐k | ‐‐kdialog

Display Dhammapada verse with kdialog.

‐z | ‐‐zenity

Display Dhammapada verse with zenity.

[num]

Print the given number verse.

EXAMPLES¶

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

FILES¶

/usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐english‐transl.txt

/usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐alternate.txt

/usr/share/display‐dhammapada/dhammapada‐polish‐transl.txt

SEE ALSO¶

notify‐send

BUGS¶

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

AUTHORS¶

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/