DesktopTicker

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 11 November 2019
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NAME

DesktopTicker - News Feed (RSS) Ticker on the Desktop

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/DesktopTicker [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

DESCRIPTION

DesktopTicker is a free RSS and Atom web feed aggregator application that allows you to keep an eye on the latest news from your favourite websites whilst you work on your computer.

Once feeds have been added, the article titles scroll horizontally across the screen.

Article summaries are displayed when the mouse cursor is placed over an article title, and the full article can be opened in a web browser by clicking on the article title.

The RSS feeds are automatically downloaded after the specified interval to show updated content.

See also: http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm for more information.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

Start DesktopTicker.

-i

install the DesktopTicker command to 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-u

uninstall the DesktopTicker shortcut from 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-V

print program version.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

version message displayed.

FILES

etc/DesktopTicker.cfg

config files for DesktopTicker (as ZIP file).

EXAMPLES

NOTES

Parts of this manpages were extracted from the documentation of DesktopTicker from http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm . See: http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm for more information about DesktopTicker.

BUGS

AUTHOR

DesktopTicker was developed by Mike Batt <desktopticker@battware.co.uk> (http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm) and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding to the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This document was created by man2html using the manual pages.
Time: 16:31:59 GMT, September 14, 2024