abarbarian Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Came across this rather neat program that has been resurrected after being dormant since 2011. Add A News Ticker To Your Desktop With TICKR (Scrolling News Feed Widget) Quote It's also worth noting that the application is not new. However, there were no new releases for many years - between 2013 and 2020 there was only a beta release. It looks like its developer is active again though, with a new major version being released in 2020, followed by a minor release last month. Even so, the application continues to use GTK2 for now. The home site Latest News on your Desktop, in just a click ... Quote TICKR version 0.7.1 is a Free Open Source, GTK-based RSS READER application which displays RSS FEEDS in a TICKER bar on your desktop. With a single click, you get the latest headlines scrolling in a thin window on your desktop, as what can be seen on Cable News TV channels. Quote TICKR can also be used with any text files instead of remote XML resources. And it can be used in shell scripts as all parameters can be set from command line. The help files are useful https://www.open-tickr.net/help.php Just some links for RSS inspiration https://www.open-tickr.net/help.php https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-rss-feeds/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494 Top 100 World News RSS Feeds Top 90 Linux RSS Feeds I made a short video, 12 mins long , 64 MB, which might be of interest, it shows tickr in use. A fantastic video of Tickr in use. I installed it on my Arch set up doing this after I cd'd into the tickr folder. ./configure make make check make install check sudo make install It installed and runs ok. I will eventually make a Arch PKGBUILD just to keep things tidy. This is a very neat program and is not too intrusive. I have set it to autostart when booting the system up and will continue to play around with it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Cool, I wonder if that could be added to polybar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 29, 2021 Author Share Posted August 29, 2021 No idea about polybar. However it can be positioned anywhere on the monitor, width height,text, etc et c can be fiddled with. I think that you can have different coloured backgrounds and text as well. Also I just remembered you can run several of them. I have several RSS feeds running one after the other but you can just have one feed running through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Well since I only use i3wm, it would have to be on my status bar or not at all. Well I could probably make it work but I would have to keep in a floating window mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 18 hours ago, securitybreach said: Cool, I wonder if that could be added to polybar Could you have an instance of i3bar configured with i3blockor i3status running tickr in addition to polybar ? Seems easy enough to do looking at the i3wm user guide. User guide see section 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 That would be a waste of space in my opinion. One status bar on one monitor is enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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