1boxfit(6x) XScreenSaver manual boxfit(6x)
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6 boxfit - fills space with a gradient of growing boxes or circles.
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9 boxfit [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window]
10 [-root] [-delay usecs] [-count int] [-growby int] [-spacing int] [-bor‐
11 der int] [-circles | -squares | -random] [-grab] [-peek] [-fps]
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14 Packs the screen with growing boxes or circles, colored according to a
15 horizontal or vertical gradient. The objects grow until they touch,
16 then stop. When the screen is full, they shrink away and the process
17 restarts.
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20 -visual visual
21 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
22 visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
23 visual.
24 -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
26 -root Draw on the root window.
28 -delay microseconds
30 How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the
31 animation. Default 20000, or about 0.02 seconds.
32 -count int
34 How many boxes or circles to animate simultaneously; default
35 50. Smaller numbers yield larger boxes/circles.
36 -growby int
38 How many pixels the objects should grow by, each frame. De‐
39 fault 1.
40 -spacing int
42 How many pixels of space should be left between the objects.
43 Default 1.
44 -border int
46 Thickness of the colored border around each object. Default 1.
47 -circles | -squares | -random
49 Draw circles, squares, or choose randomly (the default).
50 -grab Normally it colors the boxes with a horizontal or vertical gra‐
52 dient. If -grab is specified, it will instead load a random
53 image, and color the boxes according to the colors in that im‐
54 age. As the picture fills in, some features of the underlying
55 image may become recognisable.
56 When grabbing images, the image will be grabbed from the por‐
58 tion of the screen underlying the window, or from the system's
59 video input, or from a random file on disk, as indicated by the
60 grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and chooseRandomImages op‐
61 tions in the ~/.xscreensaver file; see xscreensaver-settings(1)
62 for more details.
63 -peek This option says to briefly show you the underlying image be‐
65 fore beginning. The default is not to show the unadulterated
66 image at all. (This only has an effect when -grab is used.)
67 -fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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71 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
72 XENVIRONMENT
74 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
75 resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
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78 X(1), xscreensaver(1) xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getim‐
79 age(6x)
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82 Copyright © 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
83 distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur‐
84 pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
85 notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
86 this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre‐
87 sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur‐
88 pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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91 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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