flyingtoasters(6x)

flyingtoasters6x

3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast)

Usage

flyingtoasters [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--ntoasters number] [--nslices number] [--no-texture] [--no-fog] [--wireframe] [--fps]

Overview

Draws a squadron of shiny 3D space-age jet-powered flying toasters, and associated toast, flying across your screen.

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: 30000 (0.03 seconds.).

--speed number

How fast the toasters fly. Larger for faster. Default: 1.0.

--ntoasters number

How many toasters to draw. Default 20.

--nslices number

How many slices of toast to draw. Default 25.

--no-texture

Turn off texture mapping (for slow machines.)

--no-fog

Turn off fog (do not fade out distant toasters.)

--wireframe

Render in wireframe instead of solid.

--fps

Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.

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

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13

--delay since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --fps since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --no-fog since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --no-texture since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --nslices since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --ntoasters since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --root since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --speed since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --visual since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --window since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --window-id since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --wireframe since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

-delay until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -fps until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -no-fog until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -no-fps until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -no-texture until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -nslices until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -ntoasters until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -root until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -speed until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -visual until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -window until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -wireframe until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Author

Code by Jamie Zawinski. Object models by Baconmonkey.

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