whirlygig(1)

whirlygig1

Usage

whirlygig [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-background] [-foreground] [-xspeed] [-yspeed] [-whirlies] [-nlines]

Overview

The whirlygig program draws a series of circles on your screen. They then move about in a cyclic pattern

Options

whirlygig accepts the following options:

-window

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

-root

Draw on the root 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.

-xspeed speed

Specify how fast the dots should cycle horizontally. Try out values from .01 to 4000

-yspeed speed

Specify how fast the dots should cycle vertically. Try out values from .01 to 4000

-whirlies a number

Specify how many whilrlies you want

-nlines number of lines

Specify how many lines of whirlies you want

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.

Author

Ashton Trey Belew <[email protected]>, 31-Mar-01

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