CYCLONE(1)

💫 cyclone — the tornado screen saver, bestie 💫

okay so picture this: you're just vibing at your computer, and then boom 💥 — TORNADOES. On your screen. That's the whole concept and honestly? iconic.

This lil cutie lives in the Really Sli...creenSavers(1) family, and this particular page is filed under General Commands Manual. iykyk 🌪️

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🌪️ NAME 🌪️

cyclone — tornado screen saver. that's it. that's the whole job. slay.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cyclone [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number] [--dpms/-M
number] [--cyclones/-c number] [--particles/-p number] [--size/-i
number] [--complexity/-C number] [--speed/-e number] [--stretch/-s]
[--no-stretch/-S] [--showcurves/-v] [--no-showcurves/-V]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Straight from Terry Walsh himself (http://reallyslick.com), and I'm quoting fr fr:

"This screen saver makes tornadoes on your screen. I wrote it for my storm chasing partner, but you can have it too."

not him writing a whole screen saver for his storm chasing partner 😭 that's main character energy and we're obsessed 🫶

And it got ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali. thank you king 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per flag, no skips, let's go ✨

• --root — draw right on the root window. going full desktop takeover, no cap 💜
• --maxfps number — sets the maximum frame rate. put a lil speed limit on the glow-up.
• --vsync number — limit redraws to the specified number of vertical refreshes. range is 0 - 100. Default: 1. she's synced, she's locked in 💖
• --dpms number — stop rendering new frames if the display isn't on. range is 0 - 1. Default: 1. like, if nobody's watching, why is she performing 🙈
• --cyclones number — number of cyclones. range is 1 - 10. Default: 1. want more than one tornado? go off, queen 🌪️🌪️🌪️
• --particles number — particles per cyclone. range is 1 - 10000. Default: 200. that's a LOT of lil sparkles bestie ✨
• --size number — particle size. range is 1 - 100. Default: 7. chunky particles or dainty ones, your call 🎀
• --complexity number — cyclone complexity. range is 1 - 10. Default: 3. she contains multitudes 🌀
• --speed number — speed. range is 1 - 100. Default: 10. how fast is this storm moving, because I need to know ⚡
• --stretch — stretch. Default: True. on by default, she's already stretched out and feeling herself 💅
• --showcurves — show curves. Default: False. off by default, but turn it on if you wanna see the curves, and honestly same 🌈

heads up bestie: the synopsis also lists --no-stretch/-S and --no-showcurves/-V. those are the off-switches, and the manual's OPTIONS section doesn't spell them out any further — so I'm not gonna make stuff up about them, periodt 🫶

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💻 ENVIRONMENT 💻

• DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. that's how she knows where to show up 💫

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• X(1),

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 2002 by Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali.

Cyclone is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. 🎉

Cyclone is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 🫶 (yes the all-caps is doing the most but that's the legal vibe, respect it)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one ships as part of X Version 11, and it's filed back under Really Sli...creenSavers(1) — go make some tornadoes, you absolute icon 🌪️💖✨