cityflow(6x)

cityflow6x

Waves of boxes.

Usage

cityflow [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--count number] [--wave-speed number] [--wave-radius number] [--waves number] [--skew number] [--wireframe] [--fps]

Overview

Waves move across a sea of boxes. The city swells. The walls are closing in.

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: 20000 (0.02 seconds).

--count number

Boxes. 50 - 4000. Default: 800.

--wave-speed number

Wave speed. 5 - 150. Default: 25.

--wave-radius number

Wave overlap. 5 - 512. Default: 256.

--waves number

Wave complexity. 1 - 20. Default: 6.

--skew number

Skew. 0 - 45. Default: 12.

--wireframe | --no-wireframe

Render in wireframe instead of solid.

--fps | --no-fps

Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

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.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

--count since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --delay since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --fps since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --no-fps since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --no-wireframe since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --root since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --skew since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --visual since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --wave-radius since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --wave-speed since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --waves since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --window since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --window-id since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --wireframe since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

-count until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -delay until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -fps until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -no-fps until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -no-wireframe until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -root until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -skew until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -visual until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -wave-radius until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -wave-speed until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -waves until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -window until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -wireframe until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Author

Jamie Zawinski.

From xscreensaver-gl 6.09+dfsg1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.