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glitchpeg(6)		      XScreenSaver manual		  glitchpeg(6)

NAME
       glitchpeg - glitched image screen saver.

SYNOPSIS
       glitchpeg  [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
       [--root]	[--window-id  number]  [--delay	 number]  [--duration  number]
       [--count	number]

DESCRIPTION
       Loads  an  image, corrupts it, and then displays	the corrupted version,
       several times a second. After a while, finds a new image	to corrupt.

       It glitches the image by	altering random	bytes in the compressed	 image
       file  before de-compressing it. This creates interesting	visual effects
       on JPEG files, but doesn't work well on PNG files, since	 PNG  contains
       checksums that detect simple corruption.

OPTIONS
       --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 sec-
	       onds).

       --duration number
	       How many	seconds	before loading a new image.  Default: 120.

       --count number
	       Number of glitches to introduce per iteration. Default: 400.

ENVIRONMENT
       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.

SECURITY
       Because	this  program  is feeding intentionally-invalid	data into your
       operating system's image-decoding libraries, it is possible that	it may
       crash as	a result of that corrupted data.

       That should not be possible -- but it might be.

       Please note that	if this	happens, that indicates	a serious security bug
       in your system's	image libraries!  It likely means that your  libraries
       are  susceptible	 to buffer overflow attacks or similar,	which can lead
       to remote code execution.  You should report that bug to	the  maintain-
       ers of those image libraries.

       In  the context of xscreensaver,	when configured	to load	only local im-
       age files, this should not be a direct security	concern:  this	screen
       saver crashing will not affect the xscreensaver daemon and will not un-
       lock your screen.

SEE ALSO
       X(1), xscreensaver(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2018 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, modify,
       distribute,  and	 sell this software and	its documentation for any pur-
       pose 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	repre-
       sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur-
       pose.  It is provided "as is" without express or	implied	warranty.

AUTHOR
       Jamie Zawinski.

X Version 11		      6.09 (07-Jun-2024)		  glitchpeg(6)

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