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NAME

       xdesktopwaves - simulation of water waves on the X Windows desktop

SYNOPSIS

       xdesktopwaves [option]...

DESCRIPTION

       xdesktopwaves  is  a  cellular  automata  setting the background of your X Windows desktop
       under water.  Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea.  Each movement of these ends up
       in  moving  water waves.  You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water (-rain
       0-10, -storm 0-10).

       In shaped mode, which is enabled by default, xdesktopwaves  usually  works  good  together
       with  other desktop background programs like xfishtank, xpenguins, xsnow and xearth.  They
       are all under water.

       xdesktopwaves has many options.  The most important ones are -quality 0-9 and  -colortheme
       0-9.   The first one is for adjusting the balance between display quality and system load.
       And the other option is for selecting a set of colors for visualization.  Choose  a  color
       theme suitable for your background picture.  There are even options for fine-tuning.

       Window Managers

       If  you are using the KDE window manager, please enable "Allow programs in desktop window"
       in the KDE desktop  configuration  (right-click  on  the  desktop  and  choose  "Configure
       Desktop").   Otherwise  xdesktopwaves  may not be visible.  If you are using Enlightenment
       0.16 with "Multiple Desktops" instead of "Virtual Desktops", xdesktopwaves appears  always
       on  the  first  desktop.  A solution is -wmbackdrop, but read the comments on that option.
       With most other window managers xdesktopwaves should work without difficulties.   If  not,
       try -root, -wmbackdrop or -window, and/or -opaque.

       If supported by the window manager, you should decide to enable opaque moving and resizing
       of windows ("display content in moving  windows"  or  something  like  that),  instead  of
       displaying  just a frame.  This may result in very dynamic wave effects - try to pile up a
       big wave by moving a window slowly.  But: unfortunately some window managers  seem  to  be
       very  CPU-intensive  while  moving  a  window opaque.  In that case xdesktopwaves does not
       perform very smooth.

       Starting and stopping

       For a first try, open  a  shell  and  type  xdesktopwaves  followed  by  desired  options.
       Example:

              xdesktopwaves -quality 4 -colortheme 3

       Just press CTRL-C for stopping.

       Now,  if  you  want  to create menu entries in your desktop environment, window manager or
       wherever: For starting, create an entry containing a command like the example above.   And
       for stopping, create an entry containing this command:

              xdesktopwaves -end

       Hint:  Whenever  xdesktopwaves  is  starting,  it  automatically  tells other instances of
       xdesktopwaves to terminate.  So there cannot be more than one instance.

       xdesktopwaves every day?

       Depending on the quality settings, xdesktopwaves can be very CPU-intensive.  To get  along
       with this, the program goes into an idle mode if there are no waves on the water or if the
       output  window  is  obscured.  The  cellular  automata  stops  computing  in  that   mode.
       Additionally, you can give a lower priority to the xdesktopwaves process (see -nice).

       If  you  want  to have xdesktopwaves automatically started when starting X Windows, insert
       the start command in the file $HOME/.xinitrc (see startx(1)).  But don't forget to  append
       &  to  the  command.  This way, xdesktopwaves is started before the window manager (may or
       may not work, depending on the type of window manager).

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h or -help
              Print a short help and exit.

       -V or -version
              Print version and exit.

       -v or -verbose
              Print some information about what's going on.

       -vv or -veryverbose
              Print much information (for debugging).

       -d name or -display name
              Connect to the display named name.

       -e or -end
              Exit after terminating a possibly already existing instance of xdesktopwaves.

WINDOW CREATION OPTIONS

       -r or -root
              Do not create any window, draw the waves to the (virtual) root window.  This option
              implies -stippled if not -opaque.

       -b or -backdrop (default)
              Create an override-redirect backdrop window on the (virtual) root window.

       -wmb or -wmbackdrop
              Create  a  backdrop  window  using  the extended window manager hints.  This is not
              supported by every window manager.  And if it is, there's still the problem that it
              may  not be possible to activate icons or menus on the desktop background (possibly
              just at every second scan-line in shaped mode).

       -w or -window
              Create an ordinary normal window.  For some window managers  you'll  even  have  to
              give -opaque.

TRANSPARENCY OPTIONS

       -o or -opaque
              Have no transparency at all.

       -t or -stippled
              Have  faked  transparency.  This lets the desktop background picture shine through.
              Other desktop background programs and desktop icons may not be visible.  The window
              of  xdesktopwaves  inherits  the background from the root window, and the waves are
              drawn in stippled mode.  This option implies -nodoublebuffer.

       -s or -shaped (default)
              Have better transparency.  Everything behind  xdesktopwaves  shines  through.   The
              window  of  xdesktopwaves  is  shaped  by  every second scan-line, using the XShape
              extension.  This  option  is  ignored  if  -root,  otherwise  this  option  implies
              -doublebuffer.

       -wmo percent or -wmopacity percent
              Have  best  transparency.   This  is still highly experimental!  It sets the window
              property  _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY,  which  is  a  hint  for   the   window   manager
              respectively  composite  manager  to  render  the window with alpha blending.  This
              option is ignored if -root.

PERFORMANCE OPTIONS

       -q number or -quality number (default: 5)
              Set overall quality of the waves.  number can be 0 to 9.  The higher  the  quality,
              the  higher  the  CPU/network  load.   This option is a comfortable alternative for
              -framerate, -simsperframe, -eventsperframe, -resdivision, -cellsize and -maxcolors.

       -fr rate or -framerate rate
              Set maximum frame rate in hertz.  This option is overridden by -quality.

       -sf count or -simsperframe count
              Set number of simulation steps per frame.  Hereby you can adapt the  speed  of  the
              waves.  This option is overridden by -quality.

       -ef count or -eventsperframe count
              Set  number  of  event  processings per frame.  This can improve the trails of fast
              moving objects (mouse and windows), but it can even incur  a  sensible  higher  CPU
              load,  because  of  a worse cache utilization.  Maximum is the number of simulation
              steps per frame.  This option is overridden by -quality.

       -rd rdx rdy or -resdivision rdx rdy
              Set overall division of resolution  in  x  and  y  direction.   These  values  have
              dramatic influence on the CPU usage on both sides, the client and the server.  This
              option is overridden by -quality.

       -cs cw ch or -cellsize cw ch
              Set width and height of the cells of water.  These values have  dramatic  influence
              on  the  CPU  usage  on  the client side.  The water surface is made of rectangular
              cells.  This is a kind of an image, where each pixel is a cell.   For  each  frame,
              that  image  is scaled up to the screen size in two steps.  In the first step it is
              scaled by (cw, ch) with bi-linear interpolation, and  in  the  second  step  it  is
              scaled by (rdx, rdy) without interpolation.  This option is overridden by -quality.

       -mc count or -maxcolors count
              Set  maximum  number  of colors for drawing the waves.  The higher the color count,
              the more rectangles may be sent to the X server.  count can  be  2  to  128.   This
              option is overridden by -quality.

       -db or -doublebuffer (default)
              Draw with double buffering.  This option is ignored if -stippled.

       -ndb or -nodoublebuffer
              Draw without double buffering.  This option is ignored if -shaped.

       -n increment or -nice increment (default: 0)
              Increment  nice value of the xdesktopwaves process.  The higher the nice value, the
              lower the process priority.  A typical value for increment is 10.

       -i or -idle (default)
              Go idle if there are no waves or if the output window is obscured.  This can  spare
              CPU cycles.

       -ni or -noidle
              Never go idle.

       -mo number or -maxoptimization number (default: 2)
              Set  maximum optimization by CPU instruction set.  If compiled with GCC for x86 (32
              or 64-bit), 1 means MMX and 2 means SSE2.  0 means to have no special optimization.

COLOR OPTIONS

       -c number or -colortheme number (default: 0)
              Select a color theme.  number can be 0 to 9.  Just try them through.   This  option
              is a comfortable alternative for -watercolor, -skycolor and -lightcolor.

       -wc color or -watercolor color
              Set color of water.  This option is overridden by -colortheme.

       -sc color or -skycolor color
              Set color of sky reflections.  This option is overridden by -colortheme.

       -lc color or -lightcolor color
              Set color of light reflections.  This option is overridden by -colortheme.

PHYSICS OPTIONS

       -wm or -wavesbymouse (default)
              Produce waves by mouse pointer movements.

       -nwm or -nowavesbymouse
              Ignore the mouse.

       -ww or -wavesbywindows (default)
              Produce waves by client windows.

       -nww or -nowavesbywindows
              Ignore client windows.

       -rn intensity or -rain intensity (default: 0)
              Simulate  raindrops  falling  on  the  water.   intensity  can be 0 (no rain) to 10
              (cloudburst).

       -st intensity or -storm intensity (default: 0)
              Simulate a storm blowing on the water.  intensity can be 0 (no wind) to 10  (strong
              storm).

       -vs value or -viscosity value (default: 3)
              Set  viscosity  of  the fluid.  value can be 1 to 5.  The higher the viscosity, the
              shorter the lifetime of waves.

       -si intensity or -skyintensity intensity (default: 5)
              Set intensity of sky reflections.  intensity can be 1 to 10.

       -li intensity or -lightintensity intensity (default: 5)
              Set intensity of light reflections.  intensity can be 1 to 10.

       -lal degrees or -lightaltitude degrees (default: 30)
              Set altitude of the source of light.  degrees can be 0 to 90.

       -laz degrees or -lightazimuth degrees (default: -35)
              Set azimuth of the source of light.  degrees can be -360 to 360.

EXAMPLES

       xdesktopwaves -quality 6 -colortheme 1 -verbose
              Increased quality.   Blue  color  theme.   Print  information  about  settings  and
              performance.

       xdesktopwaves -q 6 -c 1 -v
              Short cut of the previous example.

       xdesktopwaves -c 2 -rn 8 -r -o
              Dark  night with flashy lights.  It's raining.  Draw to the root window without any
              transparency.

SEE ALSO

       xfishtank, xpenguins(1), xearth(1), xsnow(1), xlife(1x), xsetroot(1), startx(1)

HOMEPAGE

       http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       Oliver Hamann (olha@users.sourceforge.net)

COPYRIGHT

       xdesktopwaves is copyrighted (C) 2004 by Oliver Hamann

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the  GNU  General  Public  License  as  published  by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;
       without  even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if  not,  write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
       MA 02111-1307 USA