.\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- .TH XDHAMMA 1 "April 2003" "1.0" "xdhamma man page" .SH NAME .P xdhamma \- graphical displayed verse from the Dhammapada. .SH SYNOPSIS .P .B xdhamma .I [OPTIONS] [num] .SH DESCRIPTION .P The Dhammapada is an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It contains Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts. One of the translations is by John Richards; the other is an older translation by F. Max Muller. .P .B xdhamma prints a graphical notification using .B notify\(hysend .SH OPTIONS .P .TP 8 .B \(hyr | \(hy\(hyrichards (Default) Use the Richards translation. .TP 8 .B \(hym | \(hy\(hymuller Use the Muller translation. .TP 8 .B \(hyp | \(hy\(hypolish Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale). .TP 8 .B \(hyg | \(hy\(hygrunge Use the grunge Buddha icon with notify\(hysend. .TP 8 .B \(hye | \(hy\(hyenso Use the enso icon with notify\(hysend. .TP 8 .B \(hyl | \(hy\(hylotus Use the lotus icon with notify\(hysend. .TP 8 .B \(hyk | \(hy\(hykdialog Display Dhammapada verse with kdialog. .TP 8 .B \(hyz | \(hy\(hyzenity Display Dhammapada verse with zenity. .TP 8 .B [num] Print the given number verse. .P .SH EXAMPLES .P To display a verse each time you log in on a graphical (X Window) session, run .B xdhamma in your DE session start\(hyup or .IR ~/.xsession . .SH FILES .P .I /usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hyenglish\(hytransl.txt .P .I /usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hyalternate.txt .P .I /usr/share/display\(hydhammapada/dhammapada\(hypolish\(hytransl.txt .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR notify\(hysend .SH BUGS .P Please report bugs on Launchpad : .I https://bugs.launchpad.net/display-dhammapada .SH AUTHORS .P Author: .B bodhi.zazen .P Program: .B Copyright GPL v3 .P Home Page: .I http://bodhizazen.net/display-dhammapada/ .P Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here. See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm .P Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg. .P Polish translation (by Zbigniew Becker): Public Domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain .br See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/