# The x11/wminfo port

## wminfo-1.51p1 – wm-dockapp; displays scrolling text

## Description

    This Window Maker Dockapp is designed to be very general purposed.
    It is capable to display any kind of information as long as it's
    in text-format.  It uses plugins (or modules if you like) to retrieve
    the information, any script or program that sends its output to
    stdout can be used.  wminfo simply captures this information and
    displays it row by row.  You can scroll the information both
    vertically and horizontally so even though the window only fits 5
    rows at a time you can scroll down (by clicking with the mouse in
    the lower left corner) and reveal more rows.  Vertically you can
    scroll a specific row by clicking it or scroll all rows by clicking
    the upper right corner.

    Possible uses for this application is system logging, whats-on-tv-ticker,
    news headline ticker, weather info, freshmeat announcements, stock
    ticker, you name it! If the plugin fetches information by http or
    ftp it is obviously best if it uses common utilities like lynx or
    wget for the retrieval.  There are switches in the app that (by
    default) discards HTML-tags and multiple consecutive blanks so
    that the parsing won't be such a pain in the *ss :).  Another useful
    option is to have wminfo monitor changes in the information and
    start scrolling the rows that changed.

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