NAME

wmlife - Conway's Game of Life dock app

SYNOPSIS

wmlife [-b] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

wmlife is a dock app running Conway's Game of Life.

o Left click to run a program
o Middle click to randomise the grid
o Right click to pause
o Mouse wheel up or down launches a glider at mouse co-ordinates

Wmlife is a dock app running Conway's Game of Life. Life is played on a grid of square cells where a cell can be either live or dead. In the rules, you count the number of live neighbours for each cell to determine whether a cell lives or dies.

1. A dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell (birth).

2. A live cell with two or three live neighbours stays alive (survival).

3. In all other cases, a cell dies or remains dead (overcrowding or loneliness).

Normally Life is implemented on an infinite board but due to size restraints wmlife implements the grid as a torus. In a torus the grid wraps at the edges from top to bottom and left to right.

OPTIONS

-c [...]

Program to run on a left mouse click

-g [{+-}X{+-}Y]

Set initial window position

-h

Show help

-l [...]

Set life cycle in milliseconds

-y

Set window sticky for window managers which do not support dock apps

EXAMPLES

wmlife -g -0-0 -c xterm

BUGS

Please report any bugs you may find to:

swanson@ukfsn.org

AUTHOR

Alan Swanson <alan.swanson@ukfsn.org>

http://www.swanson.ukfsn.org