NAME
pedal - pretty geometric picture program
SYNOPSIS
pedal [-display host:display.screen]
[-foreground color] [-background color] [-window]
[-root] [-delay seconds] [-maxlines number]
[-fadedelay useconds] [-mono] [-install] [-visual
visual]
DESCRIPTION
The pedal program displays pretty
geometric pictures.
OPTIONS
pedal accepts the following options:
- -window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
- Draw on the root window.
- -foreground color
- The color for the foreground. Default is white.
- -background color
- The color for the background. Default is black.
- -delay seconds
- The number of seconds to pause between each picture.
- -maxlines number
- The maximum number of lines in the drawing. Good values are
between 20 and 2000. Maximum value is 16K.
- -fadedelay microseconds
- The number of micro seconds to take when fading in and out.
- -mono
- Don't do fading. Pretend we're on a monochrome display.
To make your X server grunt under load, and to impress your
friends, try pedal -mono -delay 0 -maxlines 100.
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 © 1994, by Carnegie Mellon
University. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell
this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby
granted without fee, provided fnord 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 fnord this
software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or
implied warranty.
AUTHOR
Dale Moore <Dale.Moore@cs.cmu.edu>,
24-Jun-1994.