xaff is a clone of Stefan Gustavson's xteddy with one basic difference
and some additional features. The basic difference is the fact that
unfortunately only a small part of the population of our planet knows
its prototype, the "Äffle" that - with his friend "Pferdle" - fills
up the breaks between the ads in the regional TV of the "Südwestrundfunk"
in the Southwest of Germany. The intention of this wonderful program
is making this sympathetic monkey famous throughout the whole world by free
distribution on (I hope) non-crashing non-Microsoft systems. Like xteddy it can
be stopped by pressing 'q' or 'Q' with the mouse pointer over it.
With its version 2.0 xaff (New Xaff) has started moving and new convenient options
have been added for people who don't like to strike too many keys.
The current version xaff 3.0 is able to adopt different shapes. It can appear as a monkey
(Äffle), horse (Pferdle) or zebra. xaff 3.0 includes man pages in English
(man xaff) as well as in German (man
xaffd) and is also available as an RPM package.
Have you ever heard about a Windoze 95 software package of comparable quality?
Have you ever heard about a Windoze 95 software package that can be installed
and deinstalled correctly in such an easy way?
Micro$oft systems become more and more obsolete.
-aff, -aeffle, -monkey, -mongele, -xaff -> monkey -pferd, -pferdle, -gaul, -horse, -horsele, -xpferd -> horse -zebra, -xzebra -> zebra
-gosch <color> -mouth <color> color of mouth or horse's zebra strips -xicht <color> -face <color> color of face or horse's face excluding zebra strips -aug <color> -eye <color> color of eyes -ohr <color> -ear <color> color of ears -hemd <color> -shirt <color> color of horse's shirt -all <color> The whole head is set to <color>. Following color options are taken into account. -mono b/m mode<color> must be a valid entry of rgb.txt. If you specify "none", "None", "transparent" or "Transparent" as the color the refering part will become transparent.
-x <value> -y <value> initial position -center <value> x and y refer to the screen center -vx <value> initial horizontal velocity in pixel / 100 ms -vy <value> initial vertical velocity in pixel / 100 ms -acc random accelerations -display <terminal> works -f xaff always stays on top