pedal(1)

pedal1

Pretty geometric picture program

Usage

pedal [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-delay seconds] [-maxlines number] [-fadedelay useconds] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual]

Overview

The pedal program displays pretty geometric pictures.

Options

pedal accepts the following options:

-window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

-root

Draw on the root window.

-foreground color

The color for the foreground. Default is white.

-background color

The color for the background. Default is black.

-delay seconds

The number of seconds to pause between each picture.

-maxlines number

The maximum number of lines in the drawing. Good values are between 20 and 2000. Maximum value is 16K.

-fadedelay microseconds

The number of micro seconds to take when fading in and out.

-mono

Don't do fading. Pretend we're on a monochrome display.

To make your X server grunt under load, and to impress your friends, try pedal -mono -delay 0 -maxlines 100.

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 4 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm).

  1. 2.0–3.0

Author

Dale Moore <[email protected]>, 24-Jun-1994.

From xscreensaver 3.34-3 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.