gears - draw interlocking gears, for xscreensaver.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gears
-[\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP]
+[\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-install]
[\-visual \fIvisual\fP]
-[\-window]
-[\-root]
-[-delay \fInumber\fP]
-[-cycles \fInumber\fP]
-[-planetary]
+[\-delay \fIusecs\fP]
+[\-speed \fIfloat\fP]
+[\-no\-spin]
+[\-no\-wander]
+[-count \fIinteger\fP]
[-wireframe]
[-fps]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-This draws sets of turning, interlocking gears, rotating in three
-dimensions.
+This draws a set of rotating gears.
.SH OPTIONS
-.TP 8
-.B \-visual \fIvisual\fP
-Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
-or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
+.I gears
+accepts the following options:
.TP 8
.B \-window
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
.B \-root
Draw on the root window.
.TP 8
-.B \-delay \fInumber\fP
-Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds.).
+.B \-install
+Install a private colormap for the window.
+.TP 8
+.B \-visual \fIvisual\fP
+Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
+or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
+.TP 8
+.B \-delay \fIusecs\fP
+The delay between frames of the animation, in microseconds.
+Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.)
+.TP 8
+.B \-speed \fIfloat\fP
+Larger numbers mean run faster. Default: 1.0.
+.TP 8
+.B \-no\-spin
+Don't rotate the object.
.TP 8
-.B \-cycles \fInumber\fP
-Rotational Speed. 1 - 30. Default: 2.
+.B \-no\-wander
+Don't wander the object around the screen.
.TP 8
-.B \-planetary
-Draw a planetary gear system, instead of three simple gears.
+.B \-count \fIinteger\fP
+How many gears to draw. Default: 0 for random.
.TP 8
.B \-wireframe
Render in wireframe instead of solid.
.TP 8
-.B \-fps | \-no-fps
-Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.
+.B \-fps
+Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
.TP 8
.BR X (1),
.BR xscreensaver (1)
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2002 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
+Copyright \(co 2007 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is
hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear
in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice
suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty.
.SH AUTHOR
-By Danny Sung, Brian Paul, Ed Mackey, and Jamie Zawinski.
+Jamie Zawinski.
+
+An earlier version of this program by Brian Paul was written in 1997;
+this version was rewritten from scratch by jwz in 2007.