xcowsay 1.1

xcowsay is a cute cow for your Linux desktop. Inspired by the original cowsay.<br /><br />Usage: xcowsay [OPTION]... [MESSAGE]...<br />Display a cow on your desktop with MESSAGE or standard input.<br /><br />Options:<br />-h, --help Display this message and exit.<br />-v, --version Print version information.<br />-t, --time=SECONDS Number of seconds to display message for<br />-r, --reading-speed=N Number of milliseconds to delay per word.<br />-f, --font=FONT Set message font (Pango format).<br />-d, --daemon Run xcowsay in daemon mode.<br />--cow-size=SIZE Size of the cow (small, med, large).<br />--debug Keep daemon attached to terminal.<br /><br />Default values for these options can be specified in the xcowsay config<br />file. See the man page for more information.<br /><br />If the display_time option is not set the display time will be calcuated<br />from the reading_speed parameter multiplied by the word count.<br /><br />Installation instructions:<br /><br />./configure<br />make<br />make install<br /><br />If you don't want DBus support configure with --disable-dbus<br /><br />Here are some key features of "xcowsay":<br /><br />?*A* Fully configurable!<br />?*A* Calculates display time from amount of text<br />?*A* Daemon mode! Send your cow messages over DBus!<br />?*A* Three different sized cows provided<br />?*A* fortune(6) wrapper program: xcowfortune - cow will deliver pearls of wisdom!<br />?*A* Replace the naffness that is xmessage<br />?*A* Should work with any window manager<br />?*A* Supports UTF-8 characters properly<br />

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	*nix, Linux
Keyword:	Amount,  Calculates,  Configurable,  Configure,  Daemon,  Dbus,  Desktop,  Display,  Features,  Message,  Messages,  Number,  Text,  Version,  Xcowsay,  Xcowsay 1 1
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