beforelight(1)

🌈 beforelight(1) — screen saver, but make it bestie 🌈

okay so this is the beforelight(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and it's giving very tiny-but-iconic screen-saver energy. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

• beforelight — screen saver.

That's it, that's the name. No cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

beforelight [ -toolkitoption ... ]

okay so the synopsis is literally that: beforelight [ -toolkitoption ... ]. The -toolkitoption ... part stays exactly as written; don't go renaming it, bestie. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

beforelight is a sample implementation of a screen saver for X servers supporting the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. That's the whole vibe: sample implementation of a screen saver, MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension, X servers that support it. ✨🦋

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The author credit is Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium. Iconic. No notes. 👑

Signed off with X Version 11 and beforelight 1.0.6 — that's the source/version tea. The original footer didn't list a date, so I'm not inventing one, bestie. 💖