1glitchpeg(6x) XScreenSaver manual glitchpeg(6x)
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6 glitchpeg - glitched image screen saver.
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9 glitchpeg [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window]
10 [-root] [-delay number] [-duration number] [-count number]
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13 Loads an image, corrupts it, and then displays the corrupted version,
14 several times a second. After a while, finds a new image to corrupt.
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16 It glitches the image by altering random bytes in the compressed image
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18 on JPEG files, but doesn't work well on PNG files, since PNG contains
19 checksums that detect simple corruption.
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22 -visual visual
23 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
24 visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
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27 -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
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29 -root Draw on the root window.
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31 -delay number
32 Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 sec‐
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36 How many seconds before loading a new image. Default: 120.
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39 Number of glitches to introduce per iteration. Default: 100.
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42 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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45 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
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49 Because this program is feeding intentionally-invalid data into your
50 operating system's image-decoding libraries, it is possible that it may
51 crash as a result of that corrupted data.
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53 That should not be possible -- but it might be.
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55 Please note that if this happens, that indicates a serious security bug
56 in your system's image libraries! It likely means that your libraries
57 are susceptible to buffer overflow attacks or similar, which can lead
58 to remote code execution. You should report that bug to the maintain‐
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61 In the context of xscreensaver, when configured to load only local
62 image files, this should not be a direct security concern: this screen
63 saver crashing will not affect the xscreensaver daemon and will not
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70 Copyright © 2018 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
71 distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur‐
72 pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
73 notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
74 this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre‐
75 sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur‐
76 pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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79 Jamie Zawinski.
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