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NAMEsm - Displays a short text fullscreenSYNOPSISsm [ OPTIONS ] [ text | - ]DESCRIPTIONScreen 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 invert the colors of the text and the background, press Ctrl-I. To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q, or Escape twice, or click the "Quit"-button. OPTIONS
REMOTE CONTROLLING SMIf sm is called with - as a command line argument, it will read the text to be shown from the standard input. It will read the input until it reaches the end of the file, or the line feed character \f, and show the input read so far at once. Newline characters at the beginning or the end are ignored. The input is assumed to be UTF-8 encoded (see utf8(7)).This can be used to create automatic displays of changing data or similar tricks. For example, the following command will create a simple digital watch: (while sleep 1; do date +%T; echo -e '\f'; done) | sm - AUTHORThis 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.
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