memscroller — scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the screen
Synopsis
memscroller [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-font font] [-delay int] [-mono | -color] [-ram | -random | -filename file] [-fps]Description
The memscroller program scrolls a dump of its own process memory across the screen in three windows at three different rates.Options
memscroller accepts the following options:- -window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
- Draw on the root window.
- -install
- Install a private colormap for the window.
- -visual visual
- Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
- -color
- Render each three bytes of memory as R, G, B. This is the default.
- -mono
- Render each byte of memory in shades of green.
- -ram
- Read from the process's address space. This is the default.
- -random
- Instead of reading from memory, generate random numbers.
- -filename file
- Instead of reading from memory, read from the given file until EOF, then re-open it. If you have permission, /dev/mem is an interesting choice here. (Note that /dev/null won't ever display anything, because it returns EOF without ever returning any data.)
- -delay microseconds
- How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. Default 10000.
- -fps
- Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
Environment
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.