xscreensaver(1)

NAME

spotlight - move spotlight around desktop

SYNOPSIS

spotlight   [-display   host:display.screen]  [-foreground
color]  [-background  color]  [-window]  [-root]   [-mono]
[-install]  [-visual  visual] [-delay usecs] [-radius pix_
els]

DESCRIPTION

The spotlight program takes an image and exposes small sections of it as if through a wandering spotlight beam.

The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the
portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the
system's video input, or from a random file on disk, as
indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file;
see xscreensaver-demo(1) for more details.

OPTIONS

spotlight 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.
-delay microseconds
Slow it down.
-radius pixels
Radius of the spotlight in pixels.

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), xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreen saver-getimage(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1999 by Rick Schultz. 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.

CREDITS

Hacked together by Rick Schultz <rick@skapunx.net>, based
on StefView for BackSpace by Darcy Brockbank and on sev
eral other xscreensaver hacks.
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