antspotlight(6)

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version 6.15 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ antspotlight(6) — XScreenSaver manual ✨

🐜 NAME 🐜

antspotlight - ant spotlight screenhack. One tiny ant, one spotlight, and the whole vibe. Periodt. 🐜🔦

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

antspotlight [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root]
       [--window-id number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay microseconds]
       [--fps]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so the antspotlight code displays a single ant spotting out a screenshot. That's literally the whole main character energy: one ant, spotting out a screenshot. No cap. 🐜✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

antspotlight accepts the following options:

  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, bestie. 🪟
  • --root — Draw on the root window. Very root-window of it. 🌱
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. You pick the window, it draws there. 💅
  • --install — Install a private colormap for the window. Fancy private colormap behavior, iykyk. 🎨
  • --visual visual — Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. Slay with correct visual values. 🌈
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. Numbers on screen, we love to see it. 📈
  • --delay microseconds — Per-frame delay. Literally the delay for each frame. ⏳

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. Classic.
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — The window ID to use with --root.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Go give these a look: X(1), xscreensaver(1) xscreensaver-settings(1), and xscreensaver-getimage(6). Bestie reading list, fr fr. 📚

Copyright © 2003 by Blair Tennessy. Permission is hereby granted, without fee, to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose — just make sure the above copyright notice shows up in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice show up in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Blair Tennessy <tennessb@unbc.ca>, 20-July-2003. Icon behavior. 💜

okay bye bestie — that's antspotlight(6) from X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), and yes I'm obsessed. Mwah 💅✨

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