XScreenSaver

XScreenSaver

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT AUTHOR

NAME

pedal - pretty geometric picture program

SYNOPSIS

pedal [-display ''host:display.screen'' [-foreground ''color'' [-background ''color'' [-window [-root [-delay ''seconds'' [unrenderable node] [-fadedelay ''useconds'' [-mono [-install [-visual ''visual''

DESCRIPTION

The pedal program displays pretty geometric pictures.

OPTIONS

pedal accepts the following options:

-window

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

-root

Draw on the root window.

-foreground color

The color for the foreground. Default is white.

-background color

The color for the background. Default is black.

-delay seconds

The number of seconds to pause between each picture.

-maxlines number

The maximum number of lines in the drawing. Good values are between 20 and 2000. Maximum value is 16K.

-fadedelay microseconds

The number of micro seconds to take when fading in and out.

-mono

Don't do fading. Pretend we're on a monochrome display.

To make your X server grunt under load, and to impress your friends, try pedal -mono -delay 0 -maxlines 100.

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 1994, by Carnegie Mellon University. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided fnord 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 fnord this software for any purpose. It is provided

AUTHOR

Dale Moore