dzen2 - general-purpose messaging and notification for X11
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Description
Dzen is a general-purpose messaging and notification program for X11, desigend to be scriptable in any
language and integrate well with window managers like dwm, wmii and xmonad though it will work with any
windowmanger.
Dzen expects the status message on its standard input, and uses a custom formatting language for colors
and several other features (like bar meters and such). See README for detailed usage and scripting
instructions.
Name
dzen2 - general-purpose messaging and notification for X11
Options
-fg<color>
Set foreground color. The <color> can be specified either as symbolic name (e.g. red, darkgreen,
etc.) or as #rrggbb hex-value (e.g. #ffffaa).
-bg<color>
Set background color (same format as -fg).
-fn<font>
Set font (using the format of xlsfonts and xfontsel).
-ta<l|c|r>
Set alignment of title window content: l(eft), c(center) or r(ight).
-tw<pixels>
Set title window width.
-sa<l|c|r>
Set alignment of slave window (see -ta ).
-l<lines>
Number of lines to display in slave window (see (1) in README).
-e<event1=action1:option1:...,action2;event2=...>
Set up events and actions, eg. responses to mouse clicks (see (2) in README).
-m Start up in menu mode (see (3) in README).
-u Update contents of title and slave window simultaneously, see (see (4) in README).
-p[<timeout>]
Persist EOF (optional timeout in seconds).
-x<pixels>
Set x position on the screen.
-y<pixels>
Set y position on the screen.
-h<pixels>
Set line height (defaults to fontheight + 2 pixels).
-w<pixels>
width
-xs<n>
Set the Xinerama screen number where dzen should appear.
-v Display version information.
See Also
dzen2-dbar(1), dzen2-gcpubar(1), dzen2-gdbar(1), and dzen2-textwidth(1). More detailed documentation (especially on the formatting language of dzen2) is available in /usr/share/doc/dzen2/README.gz. DZEN(1)
Synopsis
dzen2 [-v] [-p [seconds]] [-m [v|h]] [-ta <l|c|r>] [-sa <l|c|r>]
[-x <pixel>] [-y <pixel>] [-w <pixel>] [-tw <pixel>] [-u]
[-e <string>] [-l <lines>] [-fn <font>] [-bg <color>]
[-fg <color>] [-xs <screen>]
