Cam 0.4 README

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Description

Cam is a Perl wrapper for feh that simlifies viewing webcams. Cam uses keyed bookmarks. Type "cam --help" at the command line for usage information.

Webcam Information

All webcam images are the property of their respective owners. If you enjoy the cam, you should check out the page too! The initial list of cam bookmarks (in the cam_bookmarks file) is a combination of webcams scoured from the #E People Page (http://bma.debian.net/~bma/e-irc/), my favorite webcams from the Stile Project's cam pages (http://www.stileproject.com/), and additional #e people cams that have come online since cam's original release (0.1).

Installation

Copy the "cam" script to a location in your PATH (ex /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, or $HOME/bin), and make sure hte execute bit on the script is set (type "chmod a+x $HOME/.cam_bookmarks").
Copy the "cam_bookmarks" file to $HOME/.cam_bookmarks and make sure cam can see it by typing "cam --list".
Optionally, modify the options inside the cam script. You can pass feh any options before the image by adjusting the $PRE variable, and any options after the image by adjustin the $POST variable. For example, I like to keep all cam images by default; you can enable this behavior with the -k command line option, or enable it permanently by adding it to the $PRE flags in cam.

About the Authors

Paul Duncan <pabs@pablotron.org>, pabs on #e http://www.pablotron.org/

Richard Lowe <richlowe@btinternet.com>, richlowe on #e http://www.richlowe.btinternet.co.uk/

...but the real credit goes to Tom Gilbert for making feh, an awesome image viewer. :)