anemone(6)

anemone6

Wiggling tentacles.

Usage

anemone [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--arms number] [--finpoints number] [--width number] [--fps]

Overview

Wiggling tentacles.

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.

--window-id number

Draw on the specified window.

--delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 40000 (0.04 seconds.).

--arms number

Arms. 2 - 500. Default: 128.

--finpoints number

Tentacles. 3 - 200. Default: 64.

--withdraw number

Frequency that the arms withdraw. Arms withdraw on randomly generated values between 1 and 11; this value determines the maximum value of that range. So 100 spends a lot of time withdrawn, while 1000,000 tends not to withdraw at all. Default: 1200.

--turnspeed number

How fast it turns. At zero, not at all, all they way up to thousands which are very fast indeed. Default: 50.

--width number

Thickness. 1 - 10. Default: 2.

--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.

XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW

The window ID to use with --root.

Author

Gabriel Finch.

From xscreensaver 6.15-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.