| 1 | .TH XScreenSaver 1 "24-Nov-97" "X Version 11" |
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| 2 | .SH NAME |
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| 3 | slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine |
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 5 | .B slip |
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| 6 | [\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP] [\-foreground \fIcolor\fP] |
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| 7 | [\-background \fIcolor\fP] [\-window] [\-root] [\-mono] [\-install] |
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| 8 | [\-visual \fIvisual\fP] [\-ncolors \fIinteger\fP] |
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| 9 | [\-iterations \fIinteger\fP] [\-points \fIinteger\fP] |
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| 10 | [\-delay \fImicroseconds\fP] [\-delay2 \fImicroseconds\fP] |
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| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 12 | The \fIslip\fP program does lots of blits and chews up an image. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of |
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| 15 | the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, |
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| 16 | or from a random file on disk, as indicated by |
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| 17 | the \fIgrabDesktopImages\fP, \fIgrabVideoFrames\fP, |
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| 18 | and \fIchooseRandomImages\fP options in the \fI~/.xscreensaver\fP |
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| 19 | file; see |
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| 20 | .BR xscreensaver-demo (1) |
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| 21 | for more details. |
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| 22 | .SH OPTIONS |
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| 23 | .I slip |
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| 24 | accepts the following options: |
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| 25 | .TP 8 |
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| 26 | .B \-window |
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| 27 | Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. |
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| 28 | .TP 8 |
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| 29 | .B \-root |
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| 30 | Draw on the root window. |
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| 31 | .TP 8 |
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| 32 | .B \-mono |
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| 33 | If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. |
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| 34 | .TP 8 |
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| 35 | .B \-install |
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| 36 | Install a private colormap for the window. |
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| 37 | .TP 8 |
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| 38 | .B \-visual \fIvisual\fP |
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| 39 | Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, |
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| 40 | or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. |
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| 41 | .TP 8 |
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| 42 | .B \-ncolors \fIinteger\fP |
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| 43 | How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 128. |
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| 44 | The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around |
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| 45 | the color wheel. |
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| 46 | .TP 8 |
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| 47 | .B \-count \fIinteger\fP |
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| 48 | How many whooziwhatsis to generate. Default 35. |
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| 49 | .TP 8 |
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| 50 | .B \-cycles \fIinteger\fP |
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| 51 | How long to frobnicate. Default 50. |
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| 52 | .TP 8 |
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| 53 | .B \-delay \fImicroseconds\fP |
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| 54 | How long we should wait between drawing each step. Default 50000, |
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| 55 | or about 1/20th second. |
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| 56 | .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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| 57 | .PP |
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| 58 | .TP 8 |
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| 59 | .B DISPLAY |
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| 60 | to get the default host and display number. |
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| 61 | .TP 8 |
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| 62 | .B XENVIRONMENT |
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| 63 | to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources |
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| 64 | stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. |
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| 65 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 66 | .BR X (1), |
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| 67 | .BR xscreensaver (1), |
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| 68 | .BR xscreensaver\-demo (1), |
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| 69 | .BR xscreensaver\-getimage (1) |
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| 70 | .SH COPYRIGHT |
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| 71 | Copyright \(co 1992 by Scott Draves. |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its |
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| 74 | documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, |
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| 75 | provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that |
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| 76 | both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in |
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| 77 | supporting documentation. |
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| 78 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 79 | Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>. |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | Ability to run standalone or with \fIxscreensaver\fP added by |
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| 82 | Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93. |
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