winduprobot6

Usage

Overview

A swarm of wind-up toy robots wander around the table-top, bumping into each other. Each robot contains a mechanically accurate gear system inside, which you can see when the robot's shell occasionally fades to transparency.

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: 20000 (0.02 seconds).

--count number

Number of robots. 1 - 100. Default: 25.

--speed ratio

Animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.

--size ratio

Robot size. 2.0 means twice as big, 0.5 means half as big.

--opacity ratio

Robot skin transparency. 0.0 - 1.0. Default: 1.0.

--talk ratio

How often to occasionally pop up a word bubble with random text in it. 0.0 means never. 1.0 means often.

--texture | --no-texture

Whether the robot's surface should be reflective chrome.

--fade | --no-fade

Whether to sometimes fade the robot's opacity to show the inner mechanism.

--fps | --no-fps

Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

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.