glxgears(1)

💖 glxgears — bestie's guide to the iconic spinning-gears situation 💖

okay so like. this is glxgears(1), a General Commands Manual page, and it is genuinely one of the most beloved little programs in all of Unix-dom. sit down, hydrate, let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

glxgears — the ``gears'' demo, but make it GLX 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glxgears [options]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no cap, she's simple like that ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: glxgears is a port of the ``gears'' demo over to GLX. she displays a whole set of rotating gears (yes, actual spinning gears, main character energy fr) and then — and this is the part everyone's obsessed with — she prints out the frame rate at regular intervals 📈

and because of that little frame-rate flex, she has become quite popular as a basic benchmarking tool. iconic behaviour honestly. she's the vibe check of graphics stacks 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -display display — specify which X display to run on. like, which screen are we doing this on bestie
• -info — display OpenGL renderer information. show me the lore ✨
• -stereo — use a stereo enabled GLX visual. two eyes, two images, we love to see it 🦋
• -fullscreen — run in fullscreen mode. she takes up the WHOLE screen, no distractions, periodt 👑

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

glxgears was written by Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com>. a legend, frankly 🙌

this manual page was written by Thierry Reding <thierry@gilfi.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, we stan 💜

ngl if you're running glxgears expecting it to be a rigorous, scientific, definitive benchmark… ma'am. it's a gears demo. it prints frame rates. treat her with love but not with blind trust 💀

🧚 signing off 🧚

this page is glxgears(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it was last touched way back on 2006-11-29 — yes, she's vintage, she's an elder, she predates half the internet and she still slays 💅✨

stay spinning, bestie. frame rates high, vibes higher 🌸💖🎀🦋