drempels - Hallucinatory desktop enhancer.
drempels [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number] [--dpms/-M number] [--blur/-b number] [--speed/-s number] [--scale/-S number] [--cells/-c number] [--cellresolution/-R number] [--images/-i directory] [--texinterval/-I number] [--texfadeinterval/-f number] [--gentexsize/-g number] [--no-shader/-H]
From Ryan M. Geiss (http://www.geisswerks.com/about_drempels.html): "A hallucinatory desktop enhancer - bring your wallpaper to life with graceful, swirling imagery. Runs beautifully as animated wallpaper, or as a screensaver." Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali.
--root Draw on the root window. --maxfps number Set maximum frame rate. --vsync number Limit redraws to specified number of vertical refreshes. 0 - 100. Default: 1 --dpms number Stop rendering new frames if the display is not on. 0 - 1. Default: 1 --blur number Blurring between frames. 0 - 10. Default: 7 --speed number Speed of flow, bigger is faster. 0 - 20. Default: 10 --scale number Scale of flow, bigger is zoomed in. 0 - 20. Default: 10 --cells number Number of cells (i.e. control points) in width/height in powers of two. 4 - 8. Default: 4 --cellresolution number Resolution of each cell in powers of two. 4 - 8. Default: 4 --images directory Cycle through the images in the specified directory. --texinterval number Seconds to dwell on each texture. 1 - 3600. Default: 10 --texfadeinterval number Fade time between subsequent textures, in tenths of second. 1 - 100. Default: 10 --gentexsize number Resolution of randomly generated textures, in powers of two. 4 - 12. Default: 8 --no-shader Disables use of vertex/fragment shaders, in case they do not work as expected.
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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Copyright 2009 by Ryan M. Geiss and Tugrul Galatali. Drempels is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. Drempels 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.
Ryan M. Geiss and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>
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