X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fslip.man;h=63a405cb5956324c3b0539fbe3866963158bc7d5;hb=ccb7f4903325f92555a9722bba74b58346654ba0;hp=d513654c2e61cda72963fe95b4dba1e19d769462;hpb=ce3185de9d9705e259f2b60dd4b5509007fa17d4;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/slip.man b/hacks/slip.man index d513654c..63a405cb 100644 --- a/hacks/slip.man +++ b/hacks/slip.man @@ -3,9 +3,22 @@ slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine .SH SYNOPSIS .B slip -[\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-foreground \fIcolor\fP] [\-background \fIcolor\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-mono] [\-install] [\-visual \fIvisual\fP] [\-ncolors \fIinteger\fP] [\-iterations \fIinteger\fP] [\-points \fIinteger\fP] [\-delay \fImicroseconds\fP] [\-delay2 \fImicroseconds\fP] +[\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-foreground \fIcolor\fP] +[\-background \fIcolor\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-mono] [\-install] +[\-visual \fIvisual\fP] [\-ncolors \fIinteger\fP] +[\-iterations \fIinteger\fP] [\-points \fIinteger\fP] +[\-delay \fImicroseconds\fP] [\-delay2 \fImicroseconds\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION -The \fIslip\fP program does lots of blits and chews up your screen image. +The \fIslip\fP program does lots of blits and chews up an image. + +The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of +the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, +or from a random file on disk, as indicated by +the \fIgrabDesktopImages\fP, \fIgrabVideoFrames\fP, +and \fIchooseRandomImages\fP options in the \fI~/.xscreensaver\fP +file; see +.BR xscreensaver-demo (1) +for more details. .SH OPTIONS .I slip accepts the following options: @@ -27,7 +40,7 @@ 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 \-ncolors \fIinteger\fP -How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 128. +How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel. .TP 8 @@ -40,31 +53,6 @@ How long to frobnicate. Default 50. .B \-delay \fImicroseconds\fP How long we should wait between drawing each step. Default 50000, or about 1/20th second. - -.SH RESOURCES -On some systems (currently, only SGIs), this program can, instead of grabbing -a desktop image, grab a frame of video from an external camera and manipulate -that instead. The following resources control that. -.PP -.TP 8 -.B grabVideoProbability \fR(Float)\fP -What portion of the time to grab video rather than a screen image, -between 0.0 and 1.0. Defaults to 0.5, or half the time. -.TP 8 -.B videoDevice \fR(Integer)\fP -The number of the default video input device to check first. If unspecified, -the default camera (from videopanel(1)) will be checked first. After that, all -other available video input devices will be checked in order. - -The first one which produces a non-black image will be used. If all images -are black, the others will be re-checked a few times before giving up and -falling back to simply grabbing a desktop image (but note that this takes a -few seconds, so if you don't actually have any video sources hooked up, you -should consider turning off video grabbing by setting -\fBgrabVideoProbability\fP to 0.0.) -.TP 8 -.B videoGain \fR(Float)\fP -The amount by which to brighten the grabbed image. This defaults to 2.2. .SH ENVIRONMENT .PP .TP 8 @@ -77,7 +65,8 @@ stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), -.BR xlock (1) +.BR xscreensaver\-demo (1), +.BR xscreensaver\-getimage (1) .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 1992 by Scott Draves.