X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fmemscroller.man;h=33754a2e68c7937bd42cf0ae93a011e5190fedc4;hb=c1b9b55ad8d59dc05ef55e316aebf5863e7dfa56;hp=c4732a3da65424ef1b49dfeb924b0684fdf01e0e;hpb=ffd8c0873576a9e3065696a624dce6b766b77062;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/memscroller.man b/hacks/memscroller.man index c4732a3d..33754a2e 100644 --- a/hacks/memscroller.man +++ b/hacks/memscroller.man @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ memscroller - scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the screen [\-font \fIfont\fP] [\-delay \fIint\fP] [\-mono | -color] -[\-ram | -random] +[\-ram | -random | \-filename \fIfile\fP] +[\-fps] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fImemscroller\fP program scrolls a dump of its own process memory across the screen in three windows at three different rates. @@ -41,9 +42,18 @@ Read from the process's address space. This is the default. .B \-random Instead of reading from memory, generate random numbers. .TP 8 +.B \-filename \fIfile\fP +Instead of reading from memory, read from the given file until EOF, then +re-open it. If you have permission, /dev/mem is an interesting choice here. +(Note that /dev/null won't ever display anything, because it returns EOF +without ever returning any data.) +.TP 8 .B \-delay \fImicroseconds\fP How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. -Default 100000, or about 1/10th second. +Default 10000. +.TP 8 +.B \-fps +Display the current frame rate and CPU load. .SH ENVIRONMENT .PP .TP 8