flyingtoasters - Man Page

flyingtoasters [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--ntoasters number] [--nslices number] [--no-texture] [--no-fog] [--wireframe] [--fps]

Draws a squadron of shiny 3D space-age jet-powered flying toasters, and associated toast, flying across your screen.

--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.

--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.

--delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds.  Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.).

--speed number

How fast the toasters fly.  Larger for faster.  Default: 1.0.

--ntoasters number

How many toasters to draw.  Default 20.

--nslices number

How many slices of toast to draw.  Default 25.

--no-texture

Turn off texture mapping (for slow machines.)

--no-fog

Turn off fog (do not fade out distant toasters.)

--wireframe

Render in wireframe instead of solid.

--fps

Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.

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.

X(1), xscreensaver(1) AfterDark

Copyright © 2003 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.

The original After Dark flying toasters, with the fluffy white wings, were a trademark of Berkeley Systems.  Berkeley Systems ceased to exist some time in 1998, having been gobbled up by Sierra Online, who were subsequently gobbled up by Flipside and/or Vivendi (it's hard to tell exactly what happened when.)

I doubt anyone even cares any more, but if they do, hopefully this homage, with the space-age 3D jet-plane toasters, will be considered different enough that whoever still owns the trademark to the fluffy-winged 2D bitmapped toasters won't get all huffy at us.

Code by Jamie Zawinski.  Object models by Baconmonkey.