NAME¶

xfishtank - Fish swimming across your Root Window

SYNOPSIS¶

xfishtank [-c <color>] [-b <limit>] [-f <limit>] [-i <mult>] [-r <rate>] [-m <num>] [-C <num>] [-d] [-p <file>] [host:display]

DESCRIPTION¶

xfishtank is a animation program to simulate an Aquarium on your X desktop.

Each fish can have up to 255 colors, but on startup the program takes all the colors from all the fish, and squeezes them down to all fit into the default colormap as best it can. Any fish can be any size in width and height. To make them look more like they are swimming, fish are animated (Very simple 2 frame animation). Fish CANNOT swim over each other, they will turn around if they are about to collide.

OPTIONS¶

-c color

Background color of the fishtank

-b limit

Number of bubbles (Default is set to 32)

-f limit

Number of fishes (Default is set to 10)

-i inter

Move interval (Default is set to 0.2)

-r rate

Move frequency (Default is set to 0.2)

-m num

Median cut to this many colors

-C num

Use only this many color cells

-d

Clip fish, swim on root window

-p file

Fish swim on picture in file

-host:dpy

This option specifies the X server to contact.

SEE ALSO¶

X(1), xsetroot(1x)

AUTHORS¶

Eric Bina, <ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu> (Original author)

Dave Black, <dlbb0@amdahl.com> (Linux port)

TJ Phan, <phan@aur.alcatel.com> (TrueColor Support)

Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> (man page, Debian packaging)

Marius Gavrilescu (new implementation of -p option)

Jim Rees <jim@rees.org> (various updates; send bug reports here)