SUNDANCER2(1)

RSS Other Screensaver(1) — sundancer2 💫

okay bestie, so this one is a page from the RSS Other Screensaver manual — that's the manual name, it's giving very "we live in the terminal" ✨ — and it's all about a screensaver called sundancer2. grab a snack, we're doing this 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

sundancer2 — literally just a rotating stack of quads. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sundancer2 [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number]
[--dpms/-M number] [--quad_count/-q number] [--speed/-s number]
[--transparency/-t number] [--foreground/-f number] [--background/-b
number] [--reverse/-e] [--no-reverse/-E]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, neat rotation effects from rotation and skewing a whole stack of transparent squares. it's stacked. it's transparent. it's rotating. it's lowkey iconic, no cap. 🌀

Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali. 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --root — draw on the root window. main character behaviour, it just takes over the whole root. 💅
• --maxfps number — set the maximum frame rate. chill it out if your machine is fighting for its life 😭
• --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 💤
• --quad_count number — set the number of stacked quads. range is 1 - 300. Default: 150 🔥
• --speed number — rotational speed. range is 1 - 40. Default: 20 🌪️
• --transparency number — percentage of transparency. range is 1 - 100. Default: 75 🫧
• --foreground number — color for the top of the heap, using hex color codes. range is 000000 - ffffff. Default: ffff00 💛
• --background number — color for the bottom of the heap, using hex color codes. range is 000000 - ffffff. Default: ff0000 ❤️
• --reverse — reverse rotation occasionally. Default: False 🙃

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. (yes queen, this is how it knows where to show up 👀)

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• X(1),

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2002 by Dirk Songuer and Tugrul Galatali.

Sundancer2 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. 📜

Sundancer2 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.

not me shouting the warranty disclaimer but fr fr bestie, no promises, read the license 😭

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Dirk Songuer <delax@sundancerinc.de> and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com> — legends, both of them 👑

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and that's a wrap on the RSS Other Screensaver(1) page 💖 this one came from X Version 11, so go forth and stack those quads, bestie 🦋✨