slip(6) XScreenSaver manual slip(6)

NAME

slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

The slip program does lots of blits and chews up an image.

The image that it manipulates 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.

OPTIONS

slip 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.

--ncolors integer
How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200.
The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around
the color wheel.

--count integer
How many whooziwhatsis to generate. Default 35.

--cycles integer
How long to frobnicate. Default 50.

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

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1992 by Scott Draves.

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>.

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) slip(6)