---
name: "kcometen4.kss"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kcometen4"
version: "1.0.8-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kcometen4.kss"
---

# kcometen4.kss(1)

An OpenGL screensaver with exploding comets.

## NAME

kcometen4.kss - An OpenGL screensaver with exploding comets.

## SYNOPSIS

**kcometen4.kss** \[*Qt options*\] \[*KDE options*\] \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

KCometen4 is an OpenGL screensaver. A variety of multi-colored comets bounce inside a room until they explode. Occasionally lightning will also strike and blow them up. Meanwhile, a free-floating camera watches the action and sometimes enters a slow motion "bullet time" mode. It is suprisingly hypnotic.

## OPTIONS

### Options:

- **--setup**

  Setup screen saver

- **--window-id** *wid*

  Run in the specified XWindow

- **--root**

  Run in the root XWindow

- **--demo**

  Start screen saver in demo mode \[default\]

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v, --version**

  Show version information

- **--license**

  Show license information

- **--**

  End of options

###

### KDE options:

- **--caption** *caption*

  Use *caption* as name in the titlebar

- **--icon** *icon*

  Use *icon* as the application icon

- **--config** *filename*

  Use alternative configuration file

- **--nocrashhandler**

  Disable crash handler, to get core dumps

- **--waitforwm**

  Waits for a **WM\_NET** compatible windowmanager

- **--style** *style*

  sets the application GUI style

- **--geometry** *geometry*

  sets the client geometry of the main widget - see [**X**(7)](/X/7.md) for the argument format

###

### Qt options:

- **--display** *displayname*

  Use the X-server display *displayname*

- **--session** *sessionId*

  Restore the application for the given *sessionId*

- **--cmap**

  Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display

- **--ncols** *count*

  Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the **QApplication::ManyColor** color specification

- **--nograb**

  tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard

- **--dograb**

  running under a debugger can cause an implicit **-nograb**, use **-dograb** to override

- **--sync**

  switches to synchronous mode for debugging

- **--fn, --font** *fontname*

  defines the application font

- **--bg, --background** *color*

  sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)

- **--fg, --foreground** *color*

  sets the default foreground color

- **--btn, --button** *color*

  sets the default button color

- **--name** *name*

  sets the application name

- **--title** *title*

  sets the application caption title

- **--visual TrueColor**

  forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display

- **--inputstyle** *inputstyle*

  sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are **onthespot**, **overthespot**, **offthespot**, and **root**

- **--im** *XIM server*

  set XIM server

- **--noxim**

  disable XIM

- **--reverse**

  mirrors the whole layout of widgets

- **--stylesheet** *file.qss*

  applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

### Peter Müller \<pmueller@cs.tu-berlin.de\> wrote the original program for KDE3

## AUTHORS

as KCometen3.\
 John Stamp \<jstamp@users.sourceforge.net\> ported it to KDE4 and added a few bugfixes and features.

This manual page was written by John Stamp \<jstamp@users.sourceforge.net\>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.