1swirl(6x)                     XScreenSaver manual                    swirl(6x)
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NAME

6       swirl - draws swirly color-cycling patterns
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SYNOPSIS

9       swirl  [--display  host:display.screen]  [--foreground  color] [--back‐
10       ground color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id  number][--mono]  [--in‐
11       stall]  [--visual  visual]  [--ncolors  integer] [--delay microseconds]
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DESCRIPTION

17       The swirl program draws swirly color-cycling patterns.
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OPTIONS

20       swirl accepts the following options:
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22       --window
23               Draw on a newly-created window.  This is the default.
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25       --root  Draw on the root window.
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27       --window-id number
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30       --mono  If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
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32       --install
33               Install a private colormap for the window.
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35       --visual visual
36               Specify which visual to use.  Legal values are the  name  of  a
37               visual  class,  or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
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41               How many colors should be used (if possible).  Default 200.
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ENVIRONMENT

49       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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52               to get the name of a resource file that  overrides  the  global
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SEE ALSO

59       X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)
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62       Copyright © 1994 M. Dobie.
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64       Permission  to  use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
65       documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby  granted,  pro‐
66       vided  that  the  above  copyright notice appear in all copies and that
67       both that copyright notice and this permission notice  appear  in  sup‐
68       porting documentation.
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AUTHOR

72       M.Dobie <mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, 1994.
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74       Ability  to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski
75       <jwz@jwz.org>, 13-May-97.
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