Ticker

A Linux RSS monitor (RSS reader, "lecteur de flux RSS," "agregateur RSS," "agregador de noticias") for RSS and Atom feeds that lets you monitor many feeds at once and supports feed access through a web (HTTP) proxy. Configure a feed to your liking, click "add/update" to record your data and "instantiate" to create a window for the feed. Right-click on the feed browser to display the feed menu, or use the main menu. A ticker window for a feed displays headlines for all articles in the feed. Right-click on the window or on the main menu to display the "article" menu, where you may display the text of the article, view it in a browser, follow the article link if there was one or display a browser for all articles in the feed. Right-click on the browser or the article content view to display the article menu and apply it to the currently selected article. Right-click on the article text view to display the "article" menu. Article text views will be collected when the feed updates. The headline view will flash/beep when the data in the feed change. You may have to experiment to find a font that displays your language correctly. I have found that Helvetica works well with Google's German, French and Spanish feeds e.g. at

http://news.google.de/?output=rss .

You may monitor newsgroups at Google e.g. at

http://groups.google.com/group/es.ciencia.matematicas/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml .

If you do not like to use lynx to browse articles you may find mozilla.sh useful (directory "Scripts") which will contact/start a running mozilla browser to display the article text/link. This is the script: 
#! /bin/bash
#

if [ -r $1 ]; then
    cp $1 /tmp/ticker.html
    URL=/tmp/ticker.html
else
    URL=$1
fi

/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote "openurl($URL,new-window)"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo contacted mozilla process
else
    echo starting mozilla
    /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla $URL &
fi
Ticker.app will remember your feeds and your open windows from one invocation to the next in the defaults database. Enjoy!

There is an RSS feed for Ticker.app where you can find the latest news. This is the link: Ticker.xml.

Download it here (TGZ) or here (ZIP; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6).

New! Maintenance release from July 2008

Download it here (Ticker2.tgz) or here (Ticker2.zip; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6). This maintenance release became necessary because Ticker.app no longer compiled with the latest GNUstep release. Compiler warnings and missing header file includes have been fixed. The character set is now NSISOLatin1StringEncoding, making it possible to display languages like French and Spanish without difficulty. The external browser has konqueror as its default.
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