slip
Section: XScreenSaver manual (6)
Updated: 5.40 (12-Aug-2018)
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NAME
slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine
SYNOPSIS
slip
[-display
host:display.screen] [-foreground
color]
[-background
color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install]
[-visual
visual] [-ncolors
integer]
[-iterations
integer] [-points
integer]
[-delay
microseconds] [-delay2
microseconds]
[-fps]
DESCRIPTION
The
slip 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 grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames,
and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver
file; see
xscreensaver-demo(1)
for more details.
OPTIONS
slip
accepts the following options:
- -window
-
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
-
Draw on the root window.
- -mono
-
If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
- -install
-
Install a private colormap for the window.
- -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.
- -ncolors integer
-
How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200.
The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around
the color wheel.
- -count integer
-
How many whooziwhatsis to generate. Default 35.
- -cycles integer
-
How long to frobnicate. Default 50.
- -delay microseconds
-
How long we should wait between drawing each step. Default 50000,
or about 1/20th second.
- -fps
-
Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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),
xscreensaver-demo(1),
xscreensaver-getimage(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1992 by Scott Draves.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation.
AUTHOR
Scott Graves <
spot@cs.cmu.edu>.
Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.