XTickertape is an demonstration of how much information can be extracted from a single line of scrolling text. It can receive elvin notifications from a variety news sources (including CVS) and also from other tickertapes. It relies on the Motif widget set although it is known to work with LessTif.

xtickertape 2.0rc1 This is the latest release. It requires libelvin version 4.0.0-4.3.x. RPMs and DEBs will be made available soon.
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		A wide range of Unix versions are supported using a source code distribution. It will build happily against 4.0.0 through 4.3.x releases of Elvin C SDK.	Various	Source

Overview of changes in xtickertape-2.0rc1

• Notification format upgraded to conform to version 3.1 of the tickertape chat protocol.
• It's now finally possible to reload a groups file in which the keys for a group have changed. It's also possible to reload the keys file or all config files (with a SIGHUP).
• It is now possible to reply to a message in a 'no menu' group.
• Fixed a thinko in the metamail invocation which caused the first argument to be lost and thus metamail would cause it to hang.

Overview of changes in xtickertape-2.0b2

• Fixed a bug that prevented the connection status from being updated properly.
• Added the `-u' option to show-url command, making it possible to specify the URL on the command-line rather than writing it to a file first.
• Changed the metamail invocation to use execlp instead of execl, which means that the PATH environment variable is consulted. The corresponding app-default has changed name from [Mm]etamailPath to simply [Mm]etamail.
• Binary package support for Redhat, Mandrake and Debian.