XLOGO(1)

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version 1.0.7 · 5 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44

okay so real talk, this is xlogo from the General Commands Manual and in this doc we're gonna go through literally everything it does, no skips, no cap. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

xlogo — the X Window System logo. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it shows the logo. iconic. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xlogo [-toolkitoption ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

short and sweet: the xlogo program displays the X Window System logo. main character behavior honestly — it exists purely to show off the logo and it does it well. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so xlogo accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (yes, all of them, it's that kind of program) plus these guys down here:

  • -render — says: draw the logo with anti-aliased edges using the RENDER extension ✨. smooth edges, we love to see it.
  • -sharp — if -render is also specified, this forces the edges to be rendered in sharp mode (i.e. 1-bit alpha channel). crunchy pixels on purpose, periodt.
  • -shape — says the logo window should be shaped rather than rectangular. no boring box energy here 🫶
  • -help — prints a usage message and exits. polite king behavior.
  • -version — prints version info and exits. also polite. 💜

💀 RESOURCES 💀

the default width and the default height are each 100 pixels. not 99, not 101. 100. ✨

this program uses the Logo widget in the Athena widget set, and it understands all of the Simple widget resource names and classes — plus these extra ones:

  • foreground (class Foreground) — specifies the color for the logo. the default depends on whether reverseVideo is specified: if reverseVideo is specified the default is XtDefaultForeground, otherwise the default is XtDefaultBackground. so like, flip your vibes and the default flips too. 🌈
  • shapeWindow (class ShapeWindow) — specifies that the window is shaped to the X logo. default is False. set it to True if you want the shape moment 💅

🧚 WIDGETS 🧚

okay so if you wanna specify resources properly, you lowkey need to know the hierarchy of widgets that compose xlogo. in the notation below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure, the widget class name comes first, and the widget instance name comes after. iykyk.

XLogo  xlogo
        Logo  xlogo

🔥 ENVIRONMENT 🔥

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. 👀
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XLogo — specifies required resources.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

X(7), xrdb(1). go read those too bestie, they're like the prequel. 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Ollie Jones of Apollo Computer and Jim Fulton of the MIT X Consortium wrote the logo graphics routine, based on a graphic design by Danny Chong and Ross Chapman of Apollo Computer. absolute legends, all four of them. the way they gave us a logo. 😭💖

ngl that's the whole page. go run xlogo and stare at it. it's giving minimalist. 🌸

and that's a wrap! this was xlogo 1.0.7 out of X Version 11, dated the same, and we are obsessed. mwah 💋✨🎀

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