sm(1)

SM(1) General Commands Manual SM(1)

NAME

sm - Displays a short text fullscreen

SYNOPSIS

sm [text|-]

DESCRIPTION

Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.

To clear the displayed text, press Escape.

To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q or press the button.

OPTIONS

[text]
Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "-" is passed to sm, it will read the text to display from stdin.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>.

June 14, 2007