decayscreen(1x)

decayscreen1x

Make a screen meltdown.

Usage

decayscreen [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay usecs]

Overview

The decayscreen program creates a melting effect by randomly shifting rectangles around the screen.

Options

decayscreen 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.

-delay microseconds

Slow it down.

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.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex).

  1. 1.2–1.3

Author

Vivek Khera <[email protected]>, 05-Aug-93; based on code by David Wald, 1988.

From xscreensaver 1.27-2 in Debian 1.3 (Bo). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.