NAME¶
xstarfish - tiled root window wallpaper generator
SYNOPSIS¶
xstarfish [
options ]
DESCRIPTION¶
XStarfish generates colourful, tiled images using random numbers fed through
mathematical functions and draws them on the background of your desktop. It
does not use source image files, so it can generate its images nearly forever
without running out of material.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help, --usage
- Print the message you're reading now.
- -v, --version
- Current version of the program.
- -d, --daemon INTERVAL
[UNITS]
- Fork off into the background. XStarfish will generate a
pattern, sleep for INTERVAL UNITS, then repeat. Valid units are:
seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
Seconds are the default interval.
- -p, --pidfile
- Creates a $HOME/.xstarfish* file containing the pid
of the daemon if xstarfish is forking into the background.0
- --display DISPLAY
- Name of the target display.
- -g, --geometry W[xH]
- Size of desired image. If you omit the height, a square
pattern WxW will be generated.
- -o, --outfile FILE
- Specify an output file. If you use this option, xstarfish
will write a png file instead of setting the X11 desktop.
- -z, --zoom X[xY]
- Zoom factor of image. If you omit the y-scale, a uniform
zoom of XxX will be applied.
- -s, --size SIZE
- An approximate size in English. Valid size arguments are
small, medium, large, full, and random.
Full size creates patterns the exact size of your display's default
monitor. Small, medium, and large are randomly sizes
at appropriate fractions of the default monitor size. Random can be
any size from 64x64 up to the whole monitor. Size always overrides
geometry.
- -r, --random SEED
- Seed for rand() call - for debugging purposes.
NOTES¶
The default size is 256x256.
AUTHOR¶
Mars Saxman <mars@redplanetsw.com>