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Manpages XScreenSaverSection: User Commands (1)Updated: 17-Jun-99 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEwebcollage - decorate the screen with random images from the webSYNOPSISwebcollage [-display host:display.screen] [-root] [-verbose] [-delay secs] [-timeout secs] [-background bg] [-filter command] [-filter2 command] [-http-proxy host[:port]]DESCRIPTIONThe webcollage program pulls random image off of the World Wide Web and scatters them on the root window. One satisfied customer described it as "a nonstop pop culture brainbath." This program finds its images by doing random web searches, and extracting images from the returned pages. It places the images on the root window by using the giftopnm(1), djpeg(1), and xli(1), xv(1), or xloadimage(1) tools.webcollage is written in perl(1) and requires Perl 5. OPTIONSwebcollage accepts the following options:
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http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl, http://image.altavista.com/ To find random web pages. BUGSWhen drawing on the root window, it always uses the default colormap. This is actually a limitation of xv. But regardless, when using this program with xscreensaver, it must be given the default-n visual specification (see the xscreensaver(1) manual for more details.)Only the GIF and JPEG image formats are supported. Transparent and animating GIFs are not supported. It's slow. Too many of the images that it finds are text, not pictures. This is because most of the web is pictures of text. Which is pretty sad. SEE ALSOX(1), xscreensaver(1), xli(1), xv(1), xloadimage(1), ppmmake(1), giftopnm(1), pnmpaste(1), pnmscale(1), djpeg(1), cjpeg(1), xdpyinfo(1), perl(1), vidwhacker(1), dadadodo(1)COPYRIGHTCopyright © 1998, 1999 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.AUTHORJamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 24-May-98.
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