RSS-GLX-SPIROGRAPHX(1)

📦 version 0.9.1.p, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ spirographx — animated spirographs ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the RSS Other Screensaver manual (General Commands Manual, if we're being official 💅), and it's all about the lil program called spirographx. buckle up 🎀

🌈 NAME 🌈

spirographx — animated spirographs. yes. the little spinning swirly doodles. they MOVE. it's giving hypnotic. it's giving childhood toy but make it X11 🌀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spirographx [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number]
[--dpms/-M number] [--detail/-d number] [--interval/-i number]

that's the whole vibe check right there. short flags, long flags, a number for some of them. iykyk 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this is a port of SpirographX by Holmes Futrell <holmes@neatosoftware.com> (http://homepage.mac.com/solidmag/spiro/). original icon behavior, brought over to your machine.

and then it got ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali. shoutout 🫡 no cap, two whole people are responsible for the swirlies you're about to stare at for an unreasonable amount of time.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, bestie, and i'm not skipping a single one:

  • --root — draw on the root window. yes, the root window. main character energy, it just paints itself over everything 🖼️
  • --maxfps number — sets the maximum frame rate. how fast the swirlies swirl.
  • --vsync number — limits redraws to the specified number of vertical refreshes. range is 0 - 100. default: 1 ✨
  • --dpms number — stops rendering new frames if the display is not on. range is 0 - 1. default: 1. basically it goes to sleep when your screen does 😴
  • --detail number — number of line segments. range is 10 - 100. default: 45. more segments = more detail = more swirl 🌀
  • --interval number — seconds between random settings change. range is 5 - 120. default: 15. every 15 seconds it just... changes its mind. chaos. iconic.
lowkey note: those number ranges and defaults are exactly what the page says. don't come for me if you go outside them, okay? 💀

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number. so it knows where to send the pretty pixels 📺

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • X(1)

(the comma after it in the original is just vibes, we keep it. periodt.)

Copyright © 2003 by Holmes Futrell and Tugrul Galatali.

SpirographX 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. slay 🫶

SpirographX 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.

fr fr read that part again. no warranty. none. zero. it's a screensaver, not a promise 💀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Holmes Futrell <holmes@neatosoftware.com> and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>

okay and that's the whole page!! this came from the RSS Other Screensaver manual, X Version 11, and honestly? iconic little swirl machine. go run it, stare at it, lose twenty minutes of your life. no regrets 💖✨🎀

📦 where this page comes from