worldpieces6

Usage

Overview

The Earth fills up with countries one at a time, solving international relations like a jigsaw puzzle.

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.

--delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).

--speed ratio

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

--wander | --no-wander

Whether the planet should wander around the screen.

--spin ratio

Whether and how fast the planet should rotate around the axis. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.

--roll | --no-roll

Whether the planet should wobble.

--stars | --no-stars

Whether to display a star field.

--underground | --no-underground

Whether to show the seamy underbelly of the countries.

--fastforward | --no-fastforward

If you are impatient waiting for the countries to fill in, this will initially skip ahead a bit.

--wireframe | --no-wireframe

Render in wireframe instead of solid.

--image file

The image to use for the Earth's surface.

--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.