XPINGUIN(1)

💖 NAME 💖

xpinguin — the LinuX pinguin for your X Windows desktop, bestie. This is the XPINGUIN(1) page, a General Commands Manual moment, and yes he is exactly as iconic as he sounds. 🐧💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xpinguin [ -w -f -mono -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y ]

🐧 DESCRIPTION 🐧

OK so XPinguin is the LinuX Pinguin for your X Windows desktop. Literally that's the vibe.

Normally, xpinguin just sits around doing nothing. And honestly? That's what teddy bears are for. Look at him, talk to him, place heavy windows on top of him, zap him around until he becomes dizzy — do what you like. He will always be your true (albeit virtual) friend. 🥹💖

You can move xpinguin with the mouse by pointing at him and dragging him around. When clicked upon, he will pop up on top of all other windows. If you type "q" on him, he will die (or, as the page likes to think of it, be tucked away in the file system until you need him next time). 💀✨

That's it. But he's cute. Periodt.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -geometry — the standard X geometry specification, bestie. Only X and Y position requests are honoured; any height and width specifications will be ignored. So don't come for his size. 💅
• -mono — force xpinguin to show up in black-and-white, even if a grayscale or color visual is available. The color (or grayscale) pixmap contains 32 colors, and you might want to save the colormap entries for other purposes.
• -w — use the window manager. Normally, xpinguin sets the override_redirect flag for his window, which will cause most window managers to ignore him. However, some window managers might have problems with this. In that case, use this option.
• -f — float up on top of overlapping windows. This will make xpinguin stay in sight at all times, which is a bit intrusive and quite unlike a real teddy bear. That's why it is not the default action.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• XPinguin was derived from XTeddy by Jens Poenisch (poenisch@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de).
• The original Pinguin picture was created by Larry Ewing as the Linux Logo.
• The author of XTeddy is Stefan Gustavson, ISY-LiTH (stefang@isy.liu.se).

💀 BUGS 💀

For some X servers, the -f option does not work properly if pinguin is moved partially off the screen. This is the X server's fault, not the author's — no cap. 😤

If two copies of pinguin are placed so they overlap, and both were run with the -f option, the X server will try to put each on top of the other in an endless loop, which looks very bad and takes a lot of CPU power. 💀🔥

• pinguin does not make use of the X resource database. The author just didn't get around to that. 🙈
• Please report bugs, fixes, or hacks to: stefang@isy.liu.se.

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Bye bestie! 💖 This iconic little page is serving X Version 11, dated 11 February 1994 — mwah! 💅✨