glxheads(1)

💚 glxheads — bestie, let's open SO many GLX connections

okay so picture this: it's a manual page from the General Commands Manual section 1, and it's all about a lil program called glxheads that just... opens a bunch of GLX connections and vibes. no cap. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

glxheads — exercise multiple GLX connections 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glxheads [display ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the whole deal, bestie: the glxheads program will try to open GLX connections on multiple X displays — as many as you specify on the command-line, like a whole group chat of displays. 💖

if a connection can be made, it will try to create a direct GLX context — and if that fails, bestie, it falls back to using indirect contexts instead (we love a resilient queen 🫶). then it opens up a window displaying a spinning green triangle 🔥 like. it's giving main character. it's giving geometry. iconic.

and if you specify no display names at all? no worries, she's got you: glxheads will default to opening a single local connection on display 0. lowkey cozy. 🙈

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

wanna open a local connection on display 0 plus two remote connections — one to the host mars (display 0) and one to the host venus (display 1)? periodt. just run glxheads with this command-line, verbatim:

$ glxheads :0 mars:0 venus:1

three displays, three spinning green triangles, zero regrets. 🌈⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

glxheads was written by Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com>. 💜

this manual page was written by Thierry Reding <thierry@gilfi.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to them fr fr, absolute icons.

🧚 that's the whole page bestie, every flag and every fact intact — go forth and spin those triangles 💖

and that's a wrap on this one, dated 2006-11-29, from the glxheads(1) page itself 🌸 ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💅