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NAME
       gltext - draws text spinning around in 3D

SYNOPSIS
       gltext  [-display  host:display.screen]  [-window] [-root]
       [-visual  visual]  [-delay  microseconds]  [-fps]   [-text
       string] [-wander] [-no-wander] [-spin axes] [-no-spin]

DESCRIPTION
       The  gltext program draws some text spinning around in 3D,
       using a font that appears to be made of solid tubes.

OPTIONS
       gltext accepts the following options:

       -window Draw on  a  newly-created  window.   This  is  the
               default.

       -root   Draw on the root window.

       -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.

       -text string
               The  text  to display.  This may contain newlines,
               but it shouldn't be very long.  The default is  to
               display the machine name and OS version.

               This  may  also  be  a format string acceptable to
               date(e) and strftime(e), in which case, it will be
               updated  once  a  second.  So to make this program
               display a spinning digital  clock,  you  could  do
               this:

                    gltext -text "%A%n%d %b %Y%n%l:%M:%S %p"

               To  include  a  literal  `%',  you must double it:
               `%%'.

               See the man page for strftime(e) for more details.

       -fps    Display  a  running  tally  of how many frames per
               second are being rendered.   In  conjunction  with
               -delay  0,  this can be a useful benchmark of your
               GL performance.

       -wander Move the text around  the  screen.   This  is  the
               default.

       -no-wander
               Keep the text centered on the screen.

       -spin   Which axes around which the text should spin.  The
               default is "XYZ",  meaning  rotate  it  freely  in
               space.   "-spin  Z"  would  rotate the text in the
               plane of the screen while not rotating it into  or
               out of the screen; etc.

       -no-spin
               Don't  spin the text at all: the same as -spin "".

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_MAN-
               AGER property.

SEE ALSO
       X(X), xscreensaver(r)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2001 by Jamie Zawinski.  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
       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>



X Version 11                25-Jul-98             XScreenSaver(r)