Upstream url: http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Shellshow
This is a program Mark Krenz wrote the week before Indiana Linux Fest 2012 for his @climagic presentation. It allows you to pass textfile filenames as arguments and then display the files in slideshow fashion in the terminal emulator window with various transitions (wipes) in between them. It is currently written in Perl and doesn't require any special libraries to run.
You will probably want to run it locally because it can consume a fair amount of bandwidth to perform some of transitions.
Just make the program executable and if you want, put it somewhere in your path.
chmod a+x shellshow
I'd recommend using a terminal with white text on black non-transparent background for using the fadeout/fadein transition.
./shellshow file1 file2 file3 file4 ....
Once started, use one of the following keys to move between the frames in various ways:
- SPACE, ENTER = Forward, full frame slide transition
- BACKSPACE, 'b' = Backward, full frame slide transition
- l = Forward, slide line by line transition
- k = Backward, slide line by line transition
- f = Forward, fade out/in
- d = Backward, fade out/in
- ] = Move forward without transition
- [ = Move backward without transition
If you use this script, the author would be curious to know for what and how it went. You can e-mail him at deltaray#slugbug#org. Thanks.
Probably rewrite this in C and make it easier for other developers to jump in and make transitions/wipes of their own.