1 .TH XScreenSaver 1 "24-Nov-97" "X Version 11"
3 slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine
6 [\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-foreground \fIcolor\fP]
7 [\-background \fIcolor\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-mono] [\-install]
8 [\-visual \fIvisual\fP] [\-ncolors \fIinteger\fP]
9 [\-iterations \fIinteger\fP] [\-points \fIinteger\fP]
10 [\-delay \fImicroseconds\fP] [\-delay2 \fImicroseconds\fP]
13 The \fIslip\fP program does lots of blits and chews up an image.
15 The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of
16 the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input,
17 or from a random file on disk, as indicated by
18 the \fIgrabDesktopImages\fP, \fIgrabVideoFrames\fP,
19 and \fIchooseRandomImages\fP options in the \fI~/.xscreensaver\fP
21 .BR xscreensaver-demo (1)
25 accepts the following options:
28 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
31 Draw on the root window.
34 If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
37 Install a private colormap for the window.
39 .B \-visual \fIvisual\fP
40 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
41 or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
43 .B \-ncolors \fIinteger\fP
44 How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200.
45 The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around
48 .B \-count \fIinteger\fP
49 How many whooziwhatsis to generate. Default 35.
51 .B \-cycles \fIinteger\fP
52 How long to frobnicate. Default 50.
54 .B \-delay \fImicroseconds\fP
55 How long we should wait between drawing each step. Default 50000,
56 or about 1/20th second.
59 Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
64 to get the default host and display number.
67 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
68 stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
72 .BR xscreensaver\-demo (1),
73 .BR xscreensaver\-getimage (1)
75 Copyright \(co 1992 by Scott Draves.
77 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
78 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
79 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
80 both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
81 supporting documentation.
83 Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>.
85 Ability to run standalone or with \fIxscreensaver\fP added by
86 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.