| 1 | .TH XScreenSaver 1 "" "X Version 11" |
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| 2 | .SH NAME |
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| 3 | cynosure - gentle overlapping squares screen saver. |
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 5 | .B cynosure |
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| 6 | [\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] |
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| 7 | [\-visual \fIvisual\fP] |
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| 8 | [\-window] |
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| 9 | [\-root] |
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| 10 | [\-delay \fInumber\fP] |
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| 11 | [\-ncolors \fInumber\fP] |
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| 12 | [\-iterations \fInumber\fP] |
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| 13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 14 | A hack similar to `greynetic', but less frenetic. The first implementation |
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| 15 | was by Stephen Linhart; then Ozymandias G. Desiderata wrote a Java applet |
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| 16 | clone. That clone was discovered by Jamie Zawinski, and ported to C for |
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| 17 | inclusion here. |
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| 18 | .SH OPTIONS |
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| 19 | .TP 8 |
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| 20 | .B \-visual \fIvisual\fP |
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| 21 | Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, |
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| 22 | or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. |
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| 23 | .TP 8 |
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| 24 | .B \-window |
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| 25 | Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. |
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| 26 | .TP 8 |
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| 27 | .B \-root |
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| 28 | Draw on the root window. |
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| 29 | .TP 8 |
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| 30 | .B \-delay \fInumber\fP |
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| 31 | Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 500000 (0.50 seconds.). |
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| 32 | .TP 8 |
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| 33 | .B \-ncolors \fInumber\fP |
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| 34 | Number of Colors. Default: 128. |
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| 35 | .TP 8 |
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| 36 | .B \-iterations \fInumber\fP |
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| 37 | Duration. 2 - 200. Default: 100. |
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| 38 | .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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| 39 | .PP |
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| 40 | .TP 8 |
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| 41 | .B DISPLAY |
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| 42 | to get the default host and display number. |
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| 43 | .TP 8 |
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| 44 | .B XENVIRONMENT |
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| 45 | to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources |
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| 46 | stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. |
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| 47 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 48 | .BR X (1), |
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| 49 | .BR xscreensaver (1) |
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| 50 | .SH COPYRIGHT |
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| 51 | Copyright \(co 2002 by Stephen Linhart, Ozymandias G. Desiderata, and |
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| 52 | Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell |
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| 53 | this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted |
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| 54 | without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all |
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| 55 | copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice |
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| 56 | appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about |
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| 57 | the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as |
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| 58 | is" without express or implied warranty. |
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| 59 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 60 | Stephen Linhart, Ozymandias G. Desiderata, and Jamie Zawinski. |
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