XPenguins(1)

NAME
xpenguins - cute little penguins that walk along the tops of your windows

SYNOPSIS
xpenguins [-option ...]

DESCRIPTION
XPenguins animates a friendly family of penguins in your root window. They drop in from the top of the screen, walk along the tops of your windows, up the side of your windows, up the side of the screen, and sometimes even levitate with their genetically-modified go-go-gadget 'copter ability. Be careful when you move windows as the little guys squash easily. If you send the program an interupt signal (such as by hitting Ctrl-C) they will burst.

OPTIONS

-display display
    Send the penguins to the specified display.

-n, -penguins number
    The number of penguins to start. The default is 8 and the maximum is 256.

-delay delay
    The delay between each frame in milliseconds. Default is 50.

-ignorepopups
    Penguins fall through `popup' windows (those with the save-under attribute set). Note that this includes the KDE panel.

-rectwin
    Penguins regard all windows as rectangular. This option results in faster calculation of window positions, but if you use one of those fancy new window managers with shaped windows then your penguins might sometimes look like they're walking on thin air.

-q, -quiet, --quiet
    Suppress the anouncement that the penguins are exploding when an interupt is received.

-v, -version, --version
    Print out the current version.

-h, -?, -help, --help
    Print out a message describing the available options.

AUTHOR
Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk>.

CREDITS
Inspiration provided by Rick Jansen <rick@sara.nl> in the form of the classic xsnow. The penguin images were taken from Pingus, a free lemmings clone that can be found at <http://pingus.seul.org/>, and were designed by Joel Fauche <joel.fauche@wanadoo.fr>. XPenguins uses vroot.h for use with virtual window managers. vroot.h is copyright 1991 by Andreas Stolcke, copyright 1990 by Solbourne Computer Inc. <stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>.

NOTES
XPenguins can load an X server and/or network (although the CPU time used is small), and if a large number of penguins are spawned then they may begin to flicker, depending on the speed of the X server.

The xpenguins homepage is located at:

http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swrhgnrj/xpenguins/

SEE ALSO
xsnow(1), xroach(1), pingus(6)