Using Colored Smoke

Colored Smoke is the icosmoke binary. Pick it in CySaver, or run it from a shell when you want a look on the desk before you arm the saver.

Under CySaver

Customize > Screen Saver lists Colored Smoke with the other hacks when icosmoke is installed. Hack options (body count, smoke channels, drop, bounce, colour, greyscale / and related) land in ~/.cyanotype/cysaver.conf and are passed on arm and on Test Full Screen.

Preview embeds with -window-id and -no-input-exit so fader tweaks do not kill the child.
Fullscreen idle and Test pass -fullscreen. Key or pointer exits so CySaver can hand off to the lock greeter when lock is enabled.

Windowed On The Desk

icosmoke
icosmoke -count 12 -colors 2
icosmoke -greyscale
icosmoke -halftone

Default is an ordinary framed window. Greyscale drops chroma on spheres and smoke. Halftone is a 1-bit Bayer newsprint look and implies greyscale.

Fullscreen Without CySaver

icosmoke -fullscreen

Override-redirect full screen; exits on input. Same contract as the saver path.

Embed And Prefs Preview

icosmoke -window-id 0xWIN -no-input-exit

Use -no-input-exit whenever a parent window owns the session (CySaver preview or any wrapper that must survive key and mouse). Without it, fullscreen still exits on activity.

Colour Looks

-color auto -- default body colouring
-color scheme -- follow the desk scheme where supported
-color red|green|blue|#RRGGBB -- fixed body colour
-scheme-rgb #R #G #B -- optional scheme-tinted pure smoke channels
-colors N -- how many pure smoke channels (1..3, default 3)

Using Colored Smoke