cynosure - gentle overlapping squares screen saver.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Stephen Linhart, Ozymandias G. Desiderata, and Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use,
copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted
without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about
the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied
warranty.
Description
A hack similar to `greynetic', but less frenetic. The first implementation was by Stephen Linhart; then
Ozymandias G. Desiderata wrote a Java applet clone. That clone was discovered by Jamie Zawinski, and
ported to C for inclusion here.
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.
Name
cynosure - gentle overlapping squares screen saver.
Options
--visualvisual
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-idnumber
Draw on the specified window.
--delaynumber
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 500000 (0.50 seconds.).
--ncolorsnumber
Number of Colors. Default: 128.
--iterationsnumber
Duration. 2 - 200. Default: 100.
--fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
See Also
X(1), xscreensaver(1)
Synopsis
cynosure [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number]
[--delay number] [--ncolors number] [--iterations number] [--fps]
