1. NAME▲

glxgears - ``gears'' demo for GLX

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

glxgears [ options ]

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

The glxgears program is a port of the ``gears'' demo to GLX. It displays a set of rotating gears and prints out the frame rate at regular intervals. It has become quite popular as basic benchmarking tool.

4. OPTIONS ▲

-display display
        Specify which X display to run on.

-info

        Display OpenGL renderer information.

-stereo

        Use a stereo enabled GLX visual.

-fullscreen

        Run in fullscreen mode.

5. AUTHOR ▲

glxgears was written by Brian Paul <>.

This manual page was written by Thierry Reding <>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).