pulsar
Section: XScreenSaver manual (6)
Updated: 5.40 (12-Aug-2018)
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NAME
pulsar - intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures.
SYNOPSIS
pulsar
[-display
host:display.screen]
[-visual
visual]
[-window]
[-root]
[-no-light]
[-wire]
[-delay
number]
[-quads
number]
[-image
file]
[-light]
[-fog]
[-texture]
[-mipmap]
[-no-blend]
[-antialias]
[-texture_quality]
[-do_depth]
[-fps]
DESCRIPTION
Draws some intersecting planes, making use of alpha blending, fog,
textures, and mipmaps, plus a ``frames per second'' meter so that you can
tell how fast your graphics card is... Requires OpenGL.
OPTIONS
- -visual visual
-
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.
- -window
-
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
-
Draw on the root window.
- -light | -no-light
-
Use Flat Coloring.
- -wire
-
Render in wireframe instead of solid.
- -delay number
-
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 10000 (0.01 seconds.).
- -image file
-
The texture map to use.
- -quads number
-
Quad Count. 1 - 50. Default: 5.
- -light | -no-light
-
Whether to enable lighting.
- -fog | -no-fog
-
Whether to enable fog.
- -texture | -no-texture
-
Whether to enable texturing.
- -mipmap | -no-mipmap
-
Whether to enable texture mipmaps.
- -blend | -no-blend
-
Whether to enable blending.
- -antialias | -no-antialias
-
Whether to anti-alias lines.
- -texture_quality | -no-texture_quality
-
Whether to enable texture filtering.
- -do_depth | -no-do_depth
-
Whether to enable depth buffer.
- -fps
-
Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.
ENVIRONMENT
- DISPLAY
-
to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
-
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
SEE ALSO
X(1),
xscreensaver(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2002 by David Konerding. 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
appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the
suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty.
AUTHOR
David Konerding.