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gltext(6)		      XScreenSaver manual		     gltext(6)

NAME
       gltext - draws text spinning around in 3D

SYNOPSIS
       gltext  [-display  host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-visual vis‐
       ual] [-delay microseconds] [-text string] [-program command]  [-wander]
       [-no-wander]  [-spin axes] [-no-spin] [-front] [-no-front] [-wireframe]
       [-fps]

DESCRIPTION
       The gltext program draws some text spinning around in 3D, using a  font
       that appears to be made of solid tubes.

OPTIONS
       gltext accepts the following options:

       -window Draw on a newly-created window.	This is the default.

       -root   Draw on the root window.

       -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.

       -text string
	       The  text  to  display.	 This  may  contain  newlines,	but it
	       shouldn't be very long.	The default is to display the  machine
	       name and OS version.

	       This  may  also	be  a  format string acceptable to date(1) and
	       strftime(3), in which case, it will be updated once  a  second.
	       So  to  make this program display a spinning digital clock, you
	       could do this:
	       gltext -text "%A%n%d %b %Y%n%l:%M:%S %p"
	       To include a literal `%', you must double it: `%%'.

	       See the man page for strftime(3) for more details.

       -program command
	       The given program is run, and  its  output  is  displayed.   If
	       specified,  this	 overrides  -text.  The output of this program
	       will be repeatedely displayed, with new pages of text  shifting
	       in  every  few seconds.	Lines should be relatively short.  You
	       might try:
	       -program 'xscreensaver-text --cols 20'

       -wander Move the text around the screen.	 This is the default.

       -no-wander
	       Keep the text centered on the screen.

       -spin   Which axes around which the text should spin.  The  default  is
	       "XYZ",  meaning	rotate	it  freely  in space.  "-spin Z" would
	       rotate the text in the plane of the screen while	 not  rotating
	       it into or out of the screen; etc.

       -no-spin
	       Don't spin the text at all: the same as -spin "".

       -front  When  spinning,	never  spin all the way around or upside down:
	       always face mostly forward so that the text is easily readable.

       -no-front
	       Allow spins to go all the way around or upside down.   This  is
	       the default.

       -wireframe
	       Render in wireframe instead of solid.

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

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.

SEE ALSO
       X(1), xscreensaver(1) xscreensaver-text(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2001-2014 by Jamie Zawinski.	 Permission to use, copy, mod‐
       ify,  distribute,  and sell this software and its documentation for any
       purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that  the  above	 copy‐
       right  notice  appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice
       and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.  No rep‐
       resentations  are  made	about the suitability of this software for any
       purpose.	 It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

AUTHOR
       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>

X Version 11		      5.34 (24-Oct-2015)		     gltext(6)
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