gflux(6) XScreenSaver manual gflux(6)

NAME

gflux - rippling surface graphics hack

SYNOPSIS

gflux [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root]
[--window-id number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay
microseconds] [--squares num] [--resolution num] [--mode mode]
[--flat num] [--speed num] [--rotationx num] [--rotationy num]
[--rotationz num] [--waves num] [--waveChange num] [--waveHeight num]
[--waveFreq num] [--zoom num] [--wireframe] [--fps]

DESCRIPTION

The gflux program draws a colourfull animated rippling square
rotating in 3D space.

OPTIONS

gflux 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.

--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.

--squares num
Specifies the size of the grid in squares. default 19

--resolution num
Specifies the wireframe detail of the squares. default 4

--mode mode
Specifies the draw method: wireframe; solid (meaning a solid
colored surface); light (same as solid, but with lighting
effects); checker (a texture-mapped checkerboard pattern); or
grab (meaning grab an image to manipulate.)

When grabbing images, the image will be grabbed from the
portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the
system's video input, or from a random file on disk, as
indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and
chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file; see
xscreensaver-settings(1) for more details.

--wireframe
Same as "-mode wire".

--flat num
0 for smooth shading 1 for flat. default 0

--speed num
Specifies speed of ripples flowing over the surface. default
0.05

--rotationx num --rotationy num --rotationz num
Specifies the speed of rotation of the surface in these axis

--waves num
Specifies the number of ripple centres at any one time.
Values should be greater than 1. default 3

--waveChange num
Specifies the duration of a ripple centre. after this they
fade away to be reborn elsewhere with a different frequency.
default 50

--waveHeight num
Specifies the height of ripples on the surface. default 1.0

--waveFreq num
Specifies the maximum frequency of ripples. default 3.0

--zoom num
Specifies the size of the viewport. Smaller values fill the
screen with rippling surface. default 1.0

--delay microseconds
How long to pause between frames. Default is 20000, or 0.02
second.

--fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.

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) xscreensaver-settings(1),
xscreensaver-getimage(6)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000 by Josiah Pease. 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.

AUTHOR

Josiah Pease <gflux@jpease.force9.co.uk>, 10-Jun-2000.


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