---
name: "xflip"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "xflip"
version: "1.01-28"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xflip"
---

# xflip(6)

astonish your friends with interesting X effects

## NAME

xflip, meltdown - astonish your friends with interesting X effects

## SYNOPSIS

**xflip** *\[-planes\] \[-vert\] \[-oblic\] \[-fast \| -random\] \[-times number\] \[-display displayname\]*\
 **meltdown** *\[-planes\] \[-display displayname\] \[-delay x\] \[-wait n \| -wait 0\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **xflip**, and **meltdown** commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.

The programs play with the X display, producing some interesting effects. One traditional use of these commands is to have them run and affect someone else's X display, as a practical joke.

## OPTIONS

- **-display displayname**

  The X display to operate on.

- **-planes**

  Operate on a singleplane at a time.

- **-vert**

  Flip the screen vertically.

- **-oblic**

  Flip the screen vertically and horizontally at the same time.

- **-random**

  Flip small random pieces of the screen instead of the while display.

- **-times number**

  Specifies the number of pieces of the screen to flip when -random is used. Default is 300.

- **-delay x**

  Meltdown may run too fast on fast computers to be fully appreciated; this can be used to slow it down. If specified, every x times the display is updated, a 1 microsecond delay will be inserted. The default is no delay at all. Reasonable values for x are in the 20 to 200 range.

- **-wait n**

  Makes meltdown wait for n seconds after the screen is totally black. If you pass 0 to -wait, it will wait until you press a key or mouse button.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.