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WMBDAY(1)		     General Commands Manual		       WMBDAY(1)

NAME
     wmbday - dockable birthday reminder

SYNOPSIS
     wmbday [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTIOIN
     wmbday displays the next 4 coming birthdays in a WindowMaker dock app.

     While running left clicking on one of the names will give information about
     the  certain  name in an xmessage box. A left click somewhere in the window
     while wmbday notifies you about a birthday will stop the animation.

     As of version 0.3 wmbday provides a modern look which is similar to various
     other dockapps. By pressing the right mouse button you can now  switch  the
     backlight on or off.

OPTIONS
      -d name, --display=name
	    Specifies the X server to contact. See X(7x).

      -t, --text
	    Enables the classical look.

      -f file, --file=file
	    Use file as data file instead of ~/.wmbday/data

      -B color, --bgcolor=color
	    Specifies  either  the  color string (see section "Colors") used for
	    filling the background or the backlight color.

      -F color, --fontcolor=color
	    Specifies the color string (see section "Colors") used for	painting
	    normal text (also valid when using the new GUI).

      -H color, --hicolor=color
	    Specifies  the color string (see section "Colors") used for painting
	    blinking text (also valid when using the new GUI).

      -h, --help
	    Gives some help text.

      -v, --version
	    Outputs the program version.

FORMAT OF THE DATA FILE
     Since version 0.2 wmbday supports two types of data files: vCard or simple.

     The format of the usual data file is quite simple. The  first  column  con-
     tains  the date and the second one the name. They are separated by an arbi-
     trary amount of whitespaces (" ", "\r", "\t", "\n").

     dd.mm.yyyy[whitespace]name

     Notice that the date format is German and not English here.

     Names given in quotation can also be handled by wmbday.

     Also note that a line must not exceed 100 characters. But this  should  not
     be a problem due to the limited space of the dockapp.

     On  the other hand you can use a vCard-address-book like it is used by KAd-
     dressbook for example. wmbday will only read the "FN" and "BDAY" lines. For
     more information on vCards see RFC 2426.

SIGNALS
     wmbday responds to the SIGHUP signal which makes it reload the data file.

COLORS
     Colors for wmbday can be specified in two ways. Either by the name  ("red",
     "blue",  "green") or by RGB values. For a complete list of color names sup-
     ported by the Xlib please refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt.  It would go
     beyond the scope of this manpage. For exotic colors you would have  to  use
     the second method anyway. But you have to note that different monitors show
     those colors differently. Names by Colors are more portable.

     If  you  want  to	specify the RGB value the format must be "#rrrrggggbbbb"
     where "r", "g" and "b" indicate the amount  of  the  corresponding  primary
     color in the target color in hexadecimal numbers. Numbers with less than 12
     digits  are filled with zeros so you can easily use "#rrggbb" instead. Note
     that you maybe have to escape the leading "#" in the shell.

FILES
      ~/.wmbday/data
	    wmbday data file.

VERSION
     This man page is conform to version 0.3 of wmbday.

BUGS
     Please report any bugs you may find as well as feature requests to the  au-
     thor.

AUTHOR
     wmbday was written by astratis <steffen@x-berg.de>

     http://buzzinhornetz.ath.cx/wmbday/

				    July 2005			       WMBDAY(1)

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