droste(6x) XScreenSaver manual droste(6x)

droste - screen saver.

droste [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--delay number] [--duration seconds] [--speed ratio] [--r1 ratio] [--r2 ratio] [--fps]

Mise en abyme: infinite spiral recursion within images.

Works best with images that have a central circular feature.

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.
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
Draw on the root window.
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).
How long until loading a new image, in seconds. Default: 2 minutes.
Speed of zooming into the image. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. Negative to zoom out.
Inner radius of the spiral. Default: 0.2.
Outer radius of the spiral. Default: 0.7.
Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

to get the default host and display number.
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
The window ID to use with --root.

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

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Jamie Zawinski.

6.08 (10-Oct-2023) X Version 11