NAME

       slip - sucks your screen into a jet engine

SYNOPSIS

       slip  [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background color] [--window]
       [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install] [--visual  visual]  [--ncolors  integer]
       [--iterations  integer]  [--points integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2 microseconds]
       [--fps]

DESCRIPTION

       The slip program does lots of blits and chews up an image.

       The image that it manipulates 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.

OPTIONS

       slip accepts the following options:

       --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.

       --mono  If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.

       --install
               Install a private colormap for the window.

       --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.

       --ncolors integer
               How many colors should be used (if possible).  Default 200.  The colors used cycle
               through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel.

       --count integer
               How many whooziwhatsis to generate.  Default 35.

       --cycles integer
               How long to frobnicate.  Default 50.

       --delay microseconds
               How long we should wait between drawing each step.  Default 50000, or about 1/20th
               second.

       --fps   Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

ENVIRONMENT

       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.

SEE ALSO

       X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6x)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 1992 by Scott Draves.

       Permission  to  use,  copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for
       any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the  above  copyright  notice
       appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear
       in supporting documentation.

AUTHOR

       Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>.

       Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver  added  by  Jamie  Zawinski  <jwz@jwz.org>,
       18-Oct-93.