XTESTPICTURE(1)XTESTPICTURE(1)NAMExtestpicture - draw a simple monitor test pattern
SYNOPSISxtestpicture [-s[aturated]] [-d[isplay] display] [-v[ersion]]
DESCRIPTION
This program creates a single window covering the whole screen, and
draws several test patterns in it. The window is configured to be not
intercepted by a window manager and raised to the top of the window
stack, so it should be the only picture on the screen at all.
A couple of lines between the opposite corners, two rectangles near the
border of the screen, a single rectangle, and a circle in the middle of
the screen are mainly useful for convergency and linearity considera‐
tions.
A box with alternating black and white vertical lines above the center
of the screen, two pixels thick on the left side and one pixel thick
each on the right side is intented to evaluate the sharpness and band‐
width of the monitor.
Finally, there's a box containing a palette of eight colors. These are
the basic CRT colors red, green, and blue, along with their mutual mix‐
ture colors magenta, cyan, yellow, and white, accompanied by a black
rectangle to complete the series. The colors are fully saturated in the
top row, i. e. with 100 % intensity and not intermixed with white,
while the saturation decreases in steps of 25 % towards the bottom row,
which is plain gray scale (0 % saturation).
Since this color palette causes a total cost of 32 color cells, it can
be avoided by starting xtestpicture with the option -s[aturated]. This
will cause the program to display only fully saturated colors.
The program will exit if any pointer button is pressed.
Specifying the option -v[ersion] will cause the program to print its
version identification to stderr and exit.
AUTHOR
Joerg Wunsch, Dresden <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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