NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

-display display_name

Specifies the X11 display to use.

-onroot

Indicates the resulting images should appear on the root window. Note: rubberband zoom boxes don't work on the root window.

-private

Indicates that xfractint should allocate as many colors as possible in a private colormap. Normally xfractint will use 128 colors; this flag will let you use all 256, but may mess up the colors in other windows. This is not necessary if you are using greater than 8-bit color.

-slowdisplay

Indicates that the machine has a slow display, so the scrolling window should be updated infrequently. Use this flag if xfractint hangs on the title screen.

-fast

Indicates that xfractint should use the faster drawing mode. Instead of drawing each pixel immediately, xfractint will save up pixels and then refresh the screen every 5 seconds. Depending on your X implementation, this may make drawing twice as fast.

-disk

Use disk video. That is, generate the picture in memory instead of to the screen. The resulting picture can be saved as a gif file or printer file.

-fixcolors num

Specifies the number of colors to use. This number must be a power of two. Also, this number can't be greater than the number of colors available. And, it can't be greater than 256.

-geometry WxH[{+-X}{+-Y}]

This sets the size and position of the image window. The default is 800x600 pixels.

-share

Indicates that xfractint should share the current colormap. That is, xfractint uses as many colors as possible, but doesn't modify the colormap. This is not necessary with greater than 8-bit colors.

-simple

Uses simpler keyboard handling. Use this flag if you wish to debug xfractint with gdb, or else you may get "(gdb)" repeated infinitely.

xxx=yyy

Sets variable xxx to value yyy. See the online documentation for more details on the possible variables.

@filename

Loads parameters from the specified file.

@filename/groupname

Reads a named group of parameters from the specified file.

-psviewer

Allows the user to change the default postscript viewer. The viewer is called when the user prints an image with ctrl-p. The default viewer is gv.

-ctrlwindow

Allows the user to have a separate control window similar to the ncurses interface.

-font

Loads the selected font.

-fontbold

Loads the selected bold font.

BUGS

Boundary tracing sometimes locks up.

Passes=2 has problems??

Symmetry that is offset slightly doesn't always complete the image.

The top of the help screens are messed up. Starting your xterm with

-geometry 80x25 fixes this.

Xfractint uses a bizarre (to Unix users) user interface which was directly copied from the IBM version. If you don't have the appropriate keys, use the following key mappings:

IBM             Unix
F1 to F10       Shift-1 to Shift-0
INSERT          I
DELETE          D
PAGE_UP         U
PAGE_DOWN       N
LEFT_ARROW      H
RIGHT_ARROW     L
UP_ARROW        K
DOWN_ARROW      J
HOME            O
END             E
CTL_PLUS        }
CTL_MINUS       {

COPYRIGHT

AUTHORS

The original Unix port was done by Ken Shirriff (shirriff@eng.sun.com).
Xfractint was updated to Fractint 19.5 by Tim Wegner (twegner@fractint.org)
under Linux 2.0. Please report updates for other platforms to Tim Wegner.
The current official release is 20.0.
The primary authors of Fractint 20.0 are:
Timothy Wegner         twegner@fractint.org
Jonathan Osuch         josuch@fractint.org
George Martin          ggmartin@compuserve.com
Robin Bussell          robin.b2@ukonline.co.uk