xphoon(6) Games Manual xphoon(6)NAME
xphoon - displays the PHase of the mOON on the root window
SYNOPSIS
xphoon [-b] [-t interval [-i]] [-s] [-display name]
DESCRIPTION
Xphoon sets the X root window to a picture of the moon in its current phase, including the partial lighting of the dark side by reflected
earthlight.
OPTIONS -b Defeats the earthlight feature, forcing the dark side to be black.
-t Have xphoon keep running and update the picture every interval minutes. (Normally, xphoon just sets the root picture and exits.)
-i Forks a background process and prints the process-id to stdout. Useful if you want to make menu commands to refresh or kill xphoon.
-s Rotate the whole picture 180 degrees, resulting in a moon picture as viewed fom the Southern hemisphere.
-demo Demonstrate xphoon by rapidly stepping through moon phases.
NOTES
The original motivation for this program was that xsetroot was too slow. Loading a full-screen bitmap took about 15 seconds. We made a
trivial program that had fullmoon.bitmap compiled in, and it ran in less than a second. (And incidentally, the executable was smaller than
fullmoon.xbm.) Then later we came up with the phase hacking, the earthlight, and the auto-scaling.
SEE ALSO phoon(1), xsetroot(1)AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres.
The moon-phase computation is from "moontool.c" by John Walker.
6 April 1999 xphoon(6)
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CONJUNCT(1) General Commands Manual CONJUNCT(1)NAME
conjunct - find dates of equinox or new or full moon
SYNOPSIS
conjunct [options]
DESCRIPTION
conjunct searches for one of these events: spring equinox (default), summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice, new moon, or full
moon.
OPTIONS -s, --start date
Set starting date (default is current date). The date may be either a Julian day number (e.g. 2454180.0 for noon, 2007 March 20) or
an ISO 8601 date (e.g. 2007-03-20).
-e, --end date
Set ending date (default is one year from now).
-V, --vernal, --spring
Search for spring equinox (default).
-S, --summer
Search for summer solstice.
-A, --autumn, --fall
Search for autumn equinox.
-W, --winter
Search for winter solstice.
-N, --newmoon
Search for new moon.
-F, --fullmoon
Search for full moon.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
SEE ALSO aa(1).
AUTHOR
conjunct was written by Stephen L. Moshier <steve@moshier.net>.
This manual page was written by James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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