SOLARWINDS(1)

💫 RSS-GLX-SOLARWINDS(1) — like, the solarwinds page from Really Sli...creenSavers, bestie 💫

okay so this is a page from the Really Sli...creenSavers manual, section 1 (that's General Commands Manual energy, iykyk). it's the solarwinds saver and it is genuinely one of the prettiest things you can do to a monitor. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

solarwinds — mesmerizing particle effects saver. that's it. that's the whole vibe. particles. mesmerizing. slay 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

solarwinds [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number]
[--dpms/-M number] [--preset/-R number] [--winds/-w number]
[--emitters/-e number] [--particles/-p number] [--geometry/-g number]
[--size/-s number] [--windspeed/-W number] [--emitterspeed/-E number]
[--particlespeed/-P number] [--blur/-b number]

like yes it's a lot of flags but every single one of them is your friend okay 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

straight from Terry Walsh (http://reallyslick.com), and I quote:

"This is a very mesmerizing particle effects saver. Tweak the settings a little and you'll find that you can achieve an amazing number of different patterns. You can also connect the particles with lines for a very different effect."

the way that one sentence is just facts. tweak it a lil and suddenly it's a whole different saver, no cap. and the line-connecting thing? iconic behavior. 🧚

also it was ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali. thank you king 👑

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

every flag, in order, no skips, because we don't do that here:

• --root — draw on the root window. main character energy, it just is your desktop.
• --maxfps number — set maximum frame rate. cap it, bestie.
• --vsync number — limit redraws to the specified number of vertical refreshes. range is 0 - 100. default: 1.
• --dpms number — stop rendering new frames if the display is not on. range is 0 - 1. default: 1.
• --preset number — presets, babes:
  • 1 - Regular (--regular)
  • 2 - Cosmic Strings (--cosmicstrings)
  • 3 - Cold Pricklies (--coldpricklies)
  • 4 - Space Fur (--spacefur)
  • 5 - Jiggly (--jiggy)
  • 6 - Undertow (--undertow)

⚠️ these presets override all options that come before it on the command line. like, they will literally stomp them. range is 1 - 6. default: 1.

• --winds number — Winds. range is 1 - 10. default: 1.
• --emitters number — Emitters per wind. range is 1 - 1000. default: 30.
• --particles number — Particles per wind. range is 0 - 10000. default: 2000.
• --geometry number — type of geometry, and the options are giving:
  • 0 - Lights (--lights)
  • 1 - Points (--points)
  • 2 - Lines (--lines)

range is 0 - 2. default: 0.

• --size number — Particle Size. range is 1 - 100. default: 50.
• --windspeed number — Wind Speed. range is 1 - 100. default: 20.
• --emitterspeed number — Emitter Speed. range is 1 - 100. default: 15.
• --particlespeed number — Particle Speed. range is 1 - 100. default: 10.
• --blur number — Motion Blur. range is 0 - 100. default: 40.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. yeah she needs to know where to draw, okay 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

X(1)

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 2002 by Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali.

Solarwinds 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.

Solarwinds 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.

bestie the ALL CAPS is not me being dramatic, that's literally how the license says it. no warranty fr fr 😭

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

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and that's the whole page!! X Version 11 era, from the Really Sli...creenSavers(1) manual — go forth and make some particles, you absolute icon ⭐💖✨