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NAMEvgd - Viewglob communication daemon. SYNOPSISvgd [options] DESCRIPTIONvgd acts as a mediator between any number of vgseer(1) processes and a single Viewglob display process (which it controls). It keeps track of the active terminal and passes information from the corresponding vgseer (if there is one) to the display. While vgseer can be used on a remote machine using ssh or telnet, it only makes sense for vgd to be running on the same X server as the user (meaning, in most cases, locally). After successful startup, vgd uses the syslog interface for error reporting if running as a daemon. This program is slightly misnamed; traditionally, a single daemon process provides a service on a machine for all users. In Viewglob's case, there should be separate vgd processes for each physical user running Viewglob. The viewglob startup script handles this automatically, and is recommended for simple usage. OPTIONSThis program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes. A summary is included below.
--black=<colour>
Define the colours used for interpreting LS_COLORS as you
would in an .Xdefaults file. This means <colour> can be a name such as
“DarkSlateGray” or a hex specification like #RRGGBB (quoted on
the command line). There are also other forms: see XParseColor(3) for
more information. The defaults are easy to read on a light coloured
background, but probably not suitable for a dark background. For that case,
these should be a good starting point (add to vgd.conf):
black #000000
red #c11125 green #50881e yellow #c4b400 blue #1662a2 magenta #ef709a cyan #2ca3a4 white #ffffff
NOTESvgd keeps track of the active terminal by querying the X server. This doesn't work great for tabbed terminals such as gnome-terminal and konsole, because they share an X window. With these, you will need to wake up vgd when you shuffle around. If you switch to a shell and the display doesn't automatically update, send it the refocus command C-g <TAB>. By default vgmini is in jump/resize mode, which means it'll move to be near the active terminal and change its dimensions to try to match. Some window managers just don't deal with this well and the resizing can get wacky. If you're seeing this behaviour, you can disable jump/resize mode (or switch to a different window manager). FILES~/.viewglob/vgd.conf
~/.viewglob/.<port>
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DIAGNOSTICSAUTHORSStephen Bach <sjbach@users.sourceforge.net> SEE ALSOviewglob(1), vgseer(1), ls(1),
dir_colors(5), XParseColor(3),
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