GOBAN(1)

✨ GOBAN(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for goban — it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's genuinely one of the most chill little programs out there. iykyk 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

goban — the Goban screensaver 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

goban [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, this manual page is gonna give you the brief rundown on the goban command. no cap.

goban is a screensaver program that replays historical games of go right there on your screen ✨ (you might also know go as wei-chi or baduk — same iconic game, different names, we love a multilingual queen 👑).

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -version, --version — prints out the version info 💌
• -[no]stealth — stealth mode 🥷 (yes, you can turn it on and off, the [no] is doing the work)
• -display — which display to use 🖥️
• -[no]color — use color if possible 🌈
• -[no]hiContrast — use high-contrast graphics instead of rendered ones ⚡
• -adfile — set the resource file name 📁
• -name — the name used to look up X resources 🔍
• -fontHeight — size (in pixels) of the font (default = 12) 🔤
• -window-id — the X window id to draw in 🪟
• -root — draw on the root window 🌳
• -stonetime — milliseconds between stones in screensaver mode (default = 2000) ⏱️
• -gametime — milliseconds between games in screensaver mode (default = 10000) ⏳
• -acceleration — rate of acceleration of stonetime, 0=slow 100=fast (default = 50) 🚀
• -game-dir — directory to find games to play 🗂️
• -minstonetime — minimum stonetime (a limit on the acceleration) in screensaver mode (default = 100) 🛑
• -arena.games — number of games to play in the arena test 🏟️
• -arena.prog1 — program 1 for arena testing 🥇
• -arena.prog2 — program 2 for arena testing 🥈
• -arena.size — size to use in arena testing 📐
• -arena.komi — komi for arena testing ➕
• -arena.handicap — handicap for arena testing 🎯
• -edit — edit an SGF file ✏️
• -nngs — connect to NNGS 🔌
• -igs — connect to IGS 🔌
• -screensaver — run as a screensaver 🌙
• -help, --help — show the help message 🆘

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• xscreensaver(1)

also, fr fr, go check the README for info about arena mode 🏟️✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

goban was written by Scott Draves <spot@draves.org> 💜

This manual page was written by Al Nikolov <clown@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others) 🐧

The Debian package is dedicated to the Saint-Petersburg Go Federation and personally to Maxim Podolyak, it's President 🎖️ — not me getting emotional over a package dedication 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version is from the General Commands Manual, dated November 4, 2010 — iconic, historic, periodt 💅✨🎀