flip6x
Astonish your friends with interesting x effects
Usage
flip [-planes]
[-vert]
[-oblic]
[{-fast | -random}]
[-times
number]
[-display
displayname]
meltdown [-planes]
[-display
displayname]
[-delay
x]
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the flip, and meltdown commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.
The programs play with the X display, producing some interesting effects. One traditional use of these commands is to have them run and affect someone else's X display, as a practical joke.
Options
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-display displayname -
The X display to operate on.
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-planes -
Operate on a singleplane at a time.
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-vert -
Flip the screen vertically.
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-oblic -
Flip the screen vertically and horizontally at the same time.
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-random -
Flip small random peices of the screen instead of the while display.
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-times number -
Specifies the number of peices of the screen to flip when -random is used. Default is 300.
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-delay x -
Meltdown may run too fast on fast computers to be fully appreciated; this can be used to slow it down. If specified, every x times the display is updated, a 1 microsecond delay will be inserted. The default is no delay at all. Reasonable values for x are in the 20 to 200 range.
Releases
4 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 2 times.
-delay since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-display since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-oblic since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-planes since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-random since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-times since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-vert since Debian 2.2 (Potato).