xscreensaver(1)
NAME
galaxy - draws spinning galaxies
SYNOPSIS
galaxy [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-ncolors integer] [-delay microseconds] [-cycles integer] [-count integer] [-size integer] [-tracks] [-no-tracks]
DESCRIPTION
The galaxy program draws spinning galaxies.
OPTIONS
galaxy accepts the following options:
- -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the
- default.
- -root Draw on the root 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 64. The colors used cycle through the
hue, making N stops around the color wheel. - -cycles integer
- -count integer
- -size integer
- -tracks
- -no-tracks
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_MAN
AGER property.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1994 by Hubert Feyrer.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this soft
ware 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
- Original Amiga version by Uli Siegmund <uli@wom
bat.okapi.sub.org> - for EGS in Cluster.
- Ported from Cluster/EGS to C/Intuition by Harald Backert.
- Ported to X11 and xlockmore by Hubert Feyrer
<hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 30-Sep-94. - Modified by David Bagley <bagleyd@bigfoot.com>, 23-Oct-94.
- Modified by Dave Mitchell <davem@magnet.com>, 7-Apr-97.
- Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97.