deco - draw tacky 70s basement wall panelling
deco [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground
color] [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id
number] [--mono] [--install] [--visual visual] [--delay
seconds] [--max-depth int] [--min-width int]
[--min-height int] [--line-width yIint]
[--smooth-colors] [--golden-ratio] [--mondrian]
[--fps]
The deco program subdivides and colors rectangles randomly.
It looks kind of like Brady-Bunch-era rec-room wall paneling. (Raven says:
"This screensaver is ugly enough to peel paint.") Can also produce
more aesthetically pleasing displays via options.
deco 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.
- --delay
seconds
- How long to wait before starting over. Default 5 seconds.
- --max-depth
integer
- How deep to subdivide. Default 12.
- --min-width
integer
- --min-height
integer
- The size of the smallest rectangle to draw. Default 20x20.
- --line-width
integer
- Width of lines drawn between rectangles. Default zero (minimal
width).
- --smooth-colors
- --no-smooth-colors
- Whether to use a smooth color palette instead of a random one. Less
jarring. Default False.
- --golden-ratio
- --no-golden-ratio
- Whether to subdivide rectangles using the golden ratio instead of 1/2.
This ratio is supposed to be more aesthetically pleasing. Default
false.
- --mondrian
- --no-mondrian
- Whether to imitiate style of some famous paintings by Piet Mondrian.
Overrides line-width and colormap options. Default false.
- --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.
Copyright © 1997 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>, 26-Apr-97, based on code by
Michael D. Bayne <mdb@go2net.com>. Golden ratio and Mondrian settings
by Lars Huttar.