On Sunday 14 August 2005 21:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Tried my best in /usr/ports, but couldn't find any console-based > newsticker. Or so. > snownews is great, but needs user intervention. > > This is what I intend to do: I am running a firewall behind closed doors > but with a nice big window. Sure I don't want a kiosk with user > interaction. But a bit of advertisement for OpenBSD would be fine ! > So I tried snownews, but it wants user interaction; I couldn't get it > displaying the stream of BBC (e.g.) on its own. > That would be best: show headlines and then article by article for a > preset time. > Then I was thinking to show the ticker on BBC World; but I couldn't find a > console-based app to make the headlines run across the screen. > I think you get the idea. > Do we have anything like this in OpenBSD ? or outside ? > > Uwe
I discovered that the 3.7 konqueror correctly displays <marqee>...</marqee> as moving text. You can see this work at cloakanddagger.de. Just run Konqueror and periodically update the html file being displayed.
