xphoon(6) [debian man page]

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)

PNGPHOON(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PNGPHOON(1)

NAME

       pngphoon -- Creates a png file with the current phase of the moon

SYNOPSIS

       pngphoon [-w width]  [-h height]  [-f filename]	[-x moons_in_x]  [-y moons_in_y]  [-s density]	[-b]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pngphoon command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       pngphoon is a program that creates a PNG image of the current phase of the moon. It is a successor to xphoon but does not write to the root
       window, but to a file.  You can use it with window managers that accept commands for their background image  settings.	It  is	pronounced
       "pingphoon" (like "typhoon").

OPTIONS

       This program takes the following options.

       -h	 Mandatory.  Gives the image height. The image must be at least 760px high to be able to contain the moon. If the image is smaller
		 only the stars will be plotted.

       -w	 Mandatory. Gives the image width. The image must be at least 760px wide to be able to contain the moon. If the image  is  smaller
		 only the stars will be plotted.

       -f	 Mandatory. File name the PNG image shall be written to, for output to stdout use - instead of a filename

       -x	 Number of moons in x axis (for multihead configurations)

       -y	 Number of moons in y axis (for multihead configurations)

       -s	 Star density

       -b	 Black (no earthlight)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written  by Meike Reichle meike@alphascorpii.net for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

																       PNGPHOON(1)