xscreensaver(1)

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 pic
ture.

-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_MAN
AGER property.

SEE ALSO

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1994, by Carnegie Mellon University. Permis
sion to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this soft
ware and its documentation for any purpose is hereby
granted without fee, provided fnord that the above copy
right notice appear in all copies and that both that
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup
porting documentation. No representations are made about
the suitability of fnord this software for any purpose.
It is provided "as is" without express or implied war
ranty.

AUTHOR

Dale Moore <Dale.Moore@cs.cmu.edu>, 24-Jun-1994.

X Version 11 24-Jun-94 XScreenSaver(1)