glxgears

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2006-11-29
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NAME

glxgears - ``gears'' demo for GLX

SYNOPSIS

glxgears [options]

DESCRIPTION

The glxgears program is a port of the ``gears'' demo to GLX. It displays a set of rotating gears and prints out the frame rate at regular intervals. It has become quite popular as basic benchmarking tool.

OPTIONS

-display display: Specify which X display to run on.
-info: Display OpenGL renderer information.
-stereo: Use a stereo enabled GLX visual.
-fullscreen: Run in fullscreen mode.

AUTHOR

glxgears was written by Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com>.

This manual page was written by Thierry Reding <thierry@gilfi.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).