Ticker's Homepage
Current version:
Ticker is a simple little program that scrolls a message across the top or
bottom line of your screen, in a manner similar to a stock ticker. In fact,
since ticker supports communicating with a program that changes the text
periodically, it could be used to implement a stock ticker. Currently, though,
the only data gathering program available is one that displays
Slashdot and
Freshmeat news headlines on the ticker.
Ticker was really designed for use at the Linux console or even better, on a
dumb terminal, but as you can see from the screenshots, it works great in an
xterm. It's sometimes nice to use the splitvt program to split the screen into
a line for ticker and a large area for a shell to run in, so you always have
ticker running at the top of your display. (If you do that and you don't use
debian, you may want to build splitvt with this
patch which allows you to run ticker in a 1 line high window.
Downloading Ticker
- Latest source code
To build ticker, you need the following:
- A recent version of the
Slang Library.
- You will also probably want perl and Time/Date.pm from the TimeDate
module, which can be found on
CPAN.
- Ticker Debian Linux packages:
- Ticker rpms:
- Anyone want to build these?
Recent Changes
Changes in version :
Contacting the Author
I welcome all bug reports, feature requests, and comments. Just
email me.