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Name

xaniroc - X animated root cursor - makes root cursor spin

Synopsis

xaniroc [-h] [-speed n] [-fc colorname] [-bc colorname] [-t] [-display display]

Description

Xaniroc will change the root window cursor of an X11 screen into a rotating X. To use xaniroc your system should be able to create cursors with a size of at least 16x16.

The flags the xaniroc program understands are;

-h
print help text.
-speed n
set rotation speed (n must be greater than zero; default n is 25).
-fc colorname
set the cursor foreground color (default is black)
-bc colorname
set the cursor border color (default is white)
-t
set the cursor foreground to transparent
-display display
set the display

Author

Christian Zaenker (zaenker@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)

Acknowledgements

Many thanx to:

- David L. Crow (from IBM) for the routines to detect EnterNotify and LeaveNotify

events on the root window

- Stan Kalinowski (from Tektronix) for the signal

handler routines and the base for the manpage

- Ian Darwin for the idea to make the display option

Bug Reports to

zaenker@informatik.tu-muenchen.de


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