xscreensaver(1)
NAME
gltext - draws text spinning around in 3D
SYNOPSIS
gltext [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-visual visual] [-delay microseconds] [-fps] [-text string] [-wander] [-no-wander] [-spin axes] [-no-spin]
DESCRIPTION
The gltext program draws some text spinning around in 3D,
using a font that appears to be made of solid tubes.
OPTIONS
gltext 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. - -text string
- The text to display. This may contain newlines,
but it shouldn't be very long. The default is to
display the machine name and OS version. - This may also be a format string acceptable to
date(1) and strftime(3), in which case, it will be updated once a second. So to make this program
display a spinning digital clock, you could do
this:
gltext -text "%A%n%d %b %Y%n%l:%M:%S %p" - To include a literal `%', you must double it:
`%%'. - See the man page for strftime(3) for more details.
- -fps Display a running tally of how many frames per
- second are being rendered. In conjunction with
-delay 0, this can be a useful benchmark of your GL performance. - -wander Move the text around the screen. This is the
- default.
- -no-wander
- Keep the text centered on the screen.
- -spin Which axes around which the text should spin. The
- default is "XYZ", meaning rotate it freely in
space. "-spin Z" would rotate the text in the plane of the screen while not rotating it into or
out of the screen; etc. - -no-spin
- Don't spin the text at all: the same as -spin "".
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
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001 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>