alienbeacon(6) XScreenSaver manual alienbeacon(6) NAME alienbeacon - screen saver. SYNOPSIS alienbeacon [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--scale number] [--fps] DESCRIPTION Our investigation of the signal from the planet's surface brought us to what seems to be an alien beacon. Based on the rock formation around the beacon, it was probably left here millions of years ago. 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. --delay number Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds). --speed number Animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. --scale number Frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. Default 1.0, full quality. --fps | --no-fps Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. 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), https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ld2SzK COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2014 by Otavio Good. 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. AUTHOR Otavio Good. X Version 11 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) alienbeacon(6)
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