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SM(6) Games Manual SM(6)

NAME

sm - Displays a short text fullscreen

SYNOPSIS

sm [OPTIONS] [text|-]

DESCRIPTION

Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.
After a short timeout, the text entry and the quit button will disappear, leaving nothing on the screen but the entered text. To continue entering text, just start typing or (left-)click anywhere on the screen.
To clear the displayed text, press Escape.
To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q or press the button.
 
 

OPTIONS

[text]
Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "-" is passed to sm, it will read the text to display from stdin.
-f, --foreground=colordesc
Define a different color to use for the foreground of the text to display than black. The text string can be in any of the forms accepted by XParseColor; these include name for a color from rgb.txt, such as DarkSlateGray, or a hex specification such as #3050b2 or #35b.
-b, --background=colordesc
Define a different color to use for the background of the text to display than white. For possible values, see above.
-n, --font=fontspec
Define a different font to use than the default sans-serif font of your system. The fontspec be the complete name for a truetype font (like "DejaVu Sans" or "Bitstream Vera Serif") or just a short font family specification ("serif", "sans-serif").
-r, --rotate=rotation
Rotates the display by rotation*90 degrees counter-clock-wise. So -r 1 rotates the display to the left, and -r 2 puts it upside down.
--
(Double dash) End option parsing. This is used to be able to actually hand over text that starts of with an dash.
-h, --help
This option will give you a short usage message summarizing the recognized options and quits.
-V, --version
This prints the project name together with its version number quits.
 

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> and updated by Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> to reflect additions for commandline option handling.
August 5, 2008