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TELAK(1)                                                              TELAK(1)

NAME
       telak - draw local or remote pictures on your root window

SYNOPSIS
       telak [options]

DESCRIPTION
       telak is a program that draw local or remote pictures on your root
       window. This is very useful if you want to have webcam, graphs or
       something like this drawn above your wallpaper.

OPTIONS
       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
       options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
       included below.

       -h --help
              Show summary of options.

       -v --version
              Show version of program.

       -d --display
              Specify display.

       -c --config
              Specify configuration file.

       --cache
              Specify cache directory.

CONFIGURATION FILE
       The format is pretty simple. Each image have to be declared in a
       section, which is defined like this: [image_name]

       After this, you will have to declare options you want.

       url = <url or path>
              URL (http, ftp) or path (/home...) to your picture. MANDATORY.

       width = <size in px>
              Force the width of the picture to X.

       heigth = <size in px>
              Force the heigth of the picture to X.

       x = <position in px>
              Position of the image.

       y = <position in px>
              Position of the image.

       refresh = <time in seconds>
              Reload image every X seconds.

       reverse = <1 or 0>
              Reverse color mode.

EXAMPLE
       Here is a telakrc example.

       [test]
       url = /home/staff/acid/test.jpg
       width = 100
       height = 100
       x = 800
       y = 600
       reverse = 0

       [photo]
       url = http://www.somedomaine.com/somepath/arf.png
       x = 200
       y = 0
       refresh = 300
       reverse = 1

FILES
       ~/.telak/telakrc
              Main configuration file.

       ~/.telak/cache
              Default cache directory.

AUTHOR
       Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>

HOMEPAGE
       http://julien.danjou.info/telak.html

                               February 8, 2005                       TELAK(1)