boxfit - fills space with a gradient of growing boxes or
circles.
boxfit [--display host:display.screen] [--visual
visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay
usecs] [--count int] [--growby int] [--spacing
int] [--border int] [--circles | --squares | --random]
[--grab] [--peek] [--fps]
Packs the screen with growing boxes or circles, colored according
to a horizontal or vertical gradient. The objects grow until they touch,
then stop. When the screen is full, they shrink away and the process
restarts.
- --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.
- --window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- --root
- Draw on the root window.
- --window-id number
- Draw on the specified window.
- --delay
microseconds
- How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation.
Default 20000, or about 0.02 seconds.
- --count
int
- How many boxes or circles to animate simultaneously; default 50. Smaller
numbers yield larger boxes/circles.
- --growby
int
- How many pixels the objects should grow by, each frame. Default 1.
- --spacing
int
- How many pixels of space should be left between the objects. Default
1.
- --border
int
- Thickness of the colored border around each object. Default 1.
- --circles |
--squares | --random
- Draw circles, squares, or choose randomly (the default).
- --grab
- Normally it colors the boxes with a horizontal or vertical gradient. If
--grab is specified, it will instead load a random image, and color
the boxes according to the colors in that image. As the picture fills in,
some features of the underlying image may become recognisable.
When grabbing images, the image 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-settings(1) for more details.
- --peek
- This option says to briefly show you the underlying image before
beginning. The default is not to show the unadulterated image at all.
(This only has an effect when --grab is used.)
- --fps
- Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
- 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_MANAGER property.
- XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
- The window ID to use with --root.
X(1), xscreensaver(1)
xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6x)
Copyright © 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. 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.
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>