xscreensaver-text - prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers.

       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 20-Mar-2005.

X Version 11                                   6.08 (10-Oct-2023)                           xscreensaver-text(1)

       URLs should be cached, use "If-Modified-Since", and obey "Expires".

       Copyright  ©  2005-2021  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.

       The  xscreensaver-text  script  prints  out  some  text for use by various screensavers, according to the
       options set in the ~/.xscreensaver file.  This may dump the contents of a file, run a program, or load  a
       URL.  The text is reformatted and wrapped as appropriate.

HTTP_PROXY,HTTPS_PROXY,http_proxy,orhttps_proxy
           to get the default proxy host and port.

       xscreensaver-text - prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers.

xscreensaver-text accepts the following options:

       --verbose or --v
               Print diagnostics to stderr.  Multiple -v switches increase the amount of output.

       --columnsNor--colsN
               Where to wrap lines; default 72 columns.

       --linesN
               Truncate output to at most this many lines.  Default: unlimited.

       --latin1
               Convert any UTF-8 characters in the input to their closest Latin1 equivalent for output.

       Command line options may be used to override the settings in the ~/.xscreensaver file:

       --date  Print the host name and current time.

       --textSTRING
               Print out the given text.  It may contain % escape sequences as per strftime(2).

       --filePATH
               Print the contents of the given file, re-formatting it as per the other options.

       --programCMD
               Run the given program and print its output, re-formatting it as per the other options.

       --urlURL
               Download  and  print the contents of the web page.  If it contains HTML, RSS, or Atom, it will be
               converted to plain-text.  This re-downloads the document every time it is run.

xscreensaver-settings(1),   xscreensaver(1),   fortune(1),   phosphor(6x),   apple2(6x),    starwars(6x),
       fontglide(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x),

xscreensaver-text [--verbose] [--columns N] [--lines N] [--latin1] [--date] [--text STRING] [--file PATH]
       [--program CMD] [--url URL]