Flashnux

GNU/Linux man pages

Livre :
Expressions régulières,
Syntaxe et mise en oeuvre :

ISBN : 978-2-7460-9712-4
EAN : 9782746097124
(Editions ENI)

GNU/Linux

CentOS 5.1

pamx(1)



pamx

Updated: 25 March 2006
Table Of Contents

NAME

pamx - display Netpbm image in X Window System window

SYNOPSIS

pamx [-fullscreen] [-install] [-private] [-fit] [-pixmap] [-verbose]
[-display=x-display] [-title=text] [-foreground=color] [-background=color]
[-border=color] [-geometry=x-geometry-string] [-visual=name] netpbm_file

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use
two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use either white
space or an equals sign between an option name and its value.

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm.

pamx displays a Netpbm image in an X Window System window. It is like a very
simple version of the classic X image viewer xloadimage.

If you don’t specify the input file netpbm_file, the input is from Standard
Input. The input image can be any Netpbm image format. If the input is a
multi-image stream, pamx ignores all but the first image.

pamx is not the best choice for general purpose viewing of images, because
it is a traditional simple Netpbm building block. It is a good thing to
build into other programs and can be useful for debugging more complex
systems, but you can get much more powerful viewers that can display Netpbm
images. For example, xloadimage, xli, xzgv, and any web browser.

The initial window is at most 90% of the size of the display unless the
window manager does not correctly handle window size requests or if you’ve
used the -fullscreen option. You may move the image around in the window by
dragging with the first mouse button. The cursor will indicate which
directions you may drag, if any. You may exit the window by typing ’q’ or
control-C when the keyboard focus is on the window.

ppmsvgalib is a similar program that displays an image on a Linux system
without the need for the X Window System.

X RESOURCE CLASS

pamx uses the resource class name Xloadimage for window managers which need
this resource set. This is, of course, the same resource class that the
conventional viewer program xloadimage uses.

OPTIONS

-border=color
This sets the background portion of the window which is not covered
by any images to be color.

-display=display_name
This names the X display in which to put the window. E.g. 0:0.

-fit
Force image to use the default visual and colormap. This is useful if
you do not want technicolor effects when the colormap focus is inside
the image window, but it may reduce the quality of the displayed
image.

-fullscreen
Use the entire screen to display the image.

-geometry=WxH[{+,-}X{+,-}Y
This sets the size and position of the window in which pamx displays
the image.

By default, the window size exactly matches the image size, except
that if you don’t specify -fullscreen, the maximum is 90% of the
screen dimensions.

-install
Forcibly install the image’s colormap when the window is focused.
This violates ICCCM standards and only exists to allow operation with
naive window managers. Use this option only if your window manager
does not install colormaps properly.

-pixmap
Force the use of a pixmap as backing-store. This is provided for
servers where backing-store is broken (such as some versions of the
AIXWindows server). It may improve scrolling performance on servers
which provide backing-store.

-private
Force pamx to use of a private colormap. By default, pamx allocates
colors shared unless there are not enough colors available.

-verbose
Causes pamx to print various information about what it’s doing to
Standard Error.

-visual=visual_name
Force the use of a specific visual type to display an image. By
default, pamx tries to pick the best available image for a particular
image type. The available visual types are: DirectColor, TrueColor,
PseudoColor, StaticColor, GrayScale, and StaticGray. You may use the
shortest unique prefix of these names, and case is not significant.

-background=color
Use color as the background color instead of the default (usually
white but this depends on the image type) if you are transferring a
monochrome image to a color display.

-foreground=color
Use color as the foreground color instead of black if you are
transferring a monochrome image to a color display. You can also use
this to invert the foreground and background colors of a monochrome
image.

-title=text
Set the title bar title of the window. Default is the file name of
the input file, or "stdin" if the image is from Standard Input.

SEE ALSO

ppmsvgalib, pam, pnm, xzgv, xloadimage, xli

AUTHOR

pamx is by Bryan Henderson, in March 2006, based on xloadimage by Jim Frost,
Centerline Software, jimf@centerline.com, 1989-1993.

Jim’s code contained the following copyright notice and license:

Copyright 1989, 1993 Jim Frost

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. The author makes no representations about the suitability
of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express
or implied warranty.

THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Lots of other people contributed to Xloadimage, and they are listed in the
file COPYRIGHT in the source code.

HISTORY

pamx was new in Netpbm 10.34 (May 2006).

pamx is essentially based on the classic X displayer program xloadimage by
Jim Frost, 1989. Bryan Henderson stripped it down and adapted it to Netpbm
in March 2006.

The following features of xloadimage are left out of pamx, to be more
compatible with Netpbm’s philosophy of simple building blocks. Note that
there are other programs in Netpbm that do all of these things:
* slide show
* zoom in/out
* ability to accept formats other than Netpbm
* ability to display on the root window
* image transformations (brightening, clipping, rotating, etc)
* decompressing and other decoding of input

pamx also differs from xloadimage in that it uses Libnetpbm.

There is virtually no code from xloadimage actually in pamx, because Bryan
rewrote it all to make it easier to understand.
_________________________________________________________________

Table Of Contents

* SYNOPSIS
* DESCRIPTION
* X RESOURCE CLASS
* OPTIONS
* SEE ALSO
* AUTHOR



pamx(1)