flame(6) XScreenSaver manual flame(6)

NAME

flame - draw weird cosmic fractals

SYNOPSIS

flame [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
[--install] [--visual visual] [--colors integer] [--iterations
integer] [--points integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2
microseconds] [--fps]

DESCRIPTION

The flame program generates colorful fractal displays.

OPTIONS

flame accepts the following options:

--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.

--mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.

--install
Install a private colormap for the window.

--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.

--colors integer
How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64.

--iterations integer
How many fractals to generate. Default 25.

--points integer
How many pixels to draw for each fractal. Default 10000.

--delay microseconds
How long we should wait between drawing each fractal.
Default 50000, or about 1/20th second.

--delay2 microseconds
How long we should wait before clearing the screen when each
run ends. Default 2000000, or two seconds.

--fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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.

SEE ALSO

X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation.

AUTHOR

Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91.n

Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie
Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.

X Version 11 6.09 (07-Jun-2024) flame(6)