XFISHTANK(1x)

🐠✨ XFISHTANK ✨🐠 — it's a section 1x manual bestie, we're doing this

okay so, welcome to the xfishtank manual page. yes, the whole thing. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

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💖 NAME 💖

xfishtank — fish swimming across your Root Window 🐟🪟

like literally. fish. on your root window. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xfishtank [-c <color>] [-b <limit>] [-f <limit>] [-i <mult>] [-r <rate>]
[-m <num>] [-C <num>] [-d] [-p <file>] [host:display]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

xfishtank is an animation program that simulates an Aquarium on your X desktop. yes. an aquarium. on your desktop. the way that it just does that?? iconic. 🫶

Each fish can have up to 255 colors, but on startup the program takes all the colors from all the fish, and squeezes them down to all fit into the default colormap as best it can. it's giving "packing for a trip with one tiny carry-on" 💀

Any fish can be any size in width and height. no size gatekeeping here, we love that for them.

To make them look more like they are swimming, fish are animated (Very simple 2 frame animation). two frames. two. and honestly? it works. it ate.

fish CANNOT swim over each other. they will turn around if they are about to collide. it's not a bug bestie it's boundaries. 🚧🐠

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c color — Background color of the fishtank. set the vibe of the water, your choice.
• -b limit — Number of bubbles. (Default is set to 32) 🫧
• -f limit — Number of fishes. (Default is set to 10) 🐟🐟🐟
• -i inter — Move interval. (Default is set to 0.2)
• -r rate — Move frequency. (Default is set to 0.2)
• -m num — Median cut to this many colors.
• -C num — Use only this many color cells.
• -d — Clip fish, swim on root window.
• -p file — Fish swim on picture in file. putting your fish on a lil background photo, main character energy 🖼️
• -host:dpy — This option specifies the X server to contact.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• X(1)
• xsetroot(1x)

go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends who made this happen, show them respect fr fr:

• Eric Bina, <ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu> (Original author)
• Dave Black, <dlbb0@amdahl.com> (Linux port)
• TJ Phan, <phan@aur.alcatel.com> (TrueColor Support)
• Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> (man page, Debian packaging)

Send bugs (or their reports, or fixes) here: <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>. 🐛➡️💌

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and that's the whole page bestie!! ✨💖🐠

this was V2.2, dated 29 November 1996 — yes, 1996, she's vintage, she's a classic, she's thriving 💜🦋 mwah, go run some fish on your root window 🎀