NAME
memscroller - scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the
screen
SYNOPSIS
memscroller [-display
host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install]
[-visual visual] [-font font] [-delay int]
[-mono | -color] [-ram | -random | -filename file]
DESCRIPTION
The memscroller program scrolls a dump
of its own process memory across the screen in three windows at
three different rates.
OPTIONS
memscroller accepts the following options:
- -window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
- Draw on the root 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.
- -color
- Render each three bytes of memory as R, G, B. This is the
default.
- -mono
- Render each byte of memory in shades of green.
- -ram
- Read from the process's address space. This is the default.
- -random
- Instead of reading from memory, generate random numbers.
- -filename file
- Instead of reading from memory, read from the given file until
EOF, then re-open it. If you have permission, /dev/mem is an
interesting choice here. (Note that /dev/null won't ever display
anything, because it returns EOF without ever returning any data.)
- -delay microseconds
- How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the
animation. Default 100000, or about 1/10th second.
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.
SEE ALSO
X(1),
xscreensaver(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 by Jamie Zawinski.
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
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 14-Aug-2004.