spotlight(6) XScreenSaver manual spotlight(6) NAME spotlight - move spotlight around desktop SYNOPSIS spotlight [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--back- ground color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install] [--visual visual] [--delay usecs] [--duration secs] [--radius pixels] [--fps] DESCRIPTION The spotlight program takes an image and exposes small sections of it as if through a wandering spotlight beam. The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, or from a random file on disk, as indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVide- oFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file; see xscreensaver-settings(1) for more details. OPTIONS spotlight 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 microseconds Slow it down. --duration seconds How long to run before loading a new image. Default 120 seconds. --radius pixels Radius of the spotlight in pixels. --fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load. ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global re- sources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW The window ID to use with --root. SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1999 by Rick Schultz. Permission to use, copy, modify, dis- tribute, 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 no- tice 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. CREDITS Hacked together by Rick Schultz <rick@skapunx.net>, based on StefView for BackSpace by Darcy Brockbank and on several other xscreensaver hacks. X Version 11 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) spotlight(6)
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