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groach(6)

pests such as roaches hide under your X windows (xroach clone)

NAME

groach - pests such as roaches hide under your X windows (xroach clone)

SYNOPSIS

groach [theme] [options] 

DESCRIPTION

Like the classic program xroach, this program makes pests appear in your X window root who then quickly scramble to hide beneath your windows.

Multiple themes are available, so you can have fish, eyes, or other fun pests, as well as the tranditional roaches that everyone loves.

OPTIONS

The most used command line options are noted here:

THEME

Specify theme name (default, eyes, eyes2, fish, squish, etc)

\fB-n, --num=NUMBER

Specify the number of groaches

\fB-s, --speed=INTERVAL

Specify the speed of groaches (in ms)

\fB--help

Show full command-line option list

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Wesley J. Landaker <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It is distributed under the same terms as groach (i.e. the GNU General Public License).

History

--help until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --num until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --speed until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -n until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).