covid19(6)

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

💖 covid19(6) 💖

okay so first things first, the manual name is covid19(6) and it lives in the XScreenSaver manual — that's the vibe check on this one 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

covid19 — literally the most 2020 of all screen savers. no cap. 😭

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

covid19 [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--count
number] [--no-wander] [--no-spin] [--wireframe] [--fps]

🦠 DESCRIPTION 🦠

SARS-CoV-2. Stay the fuck home. Wear a fucking mask.

bestie that's it. that's the whole description. iconic of it honestly 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of one specific visual.
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. this one's the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get 🫶
  • --root — draws on the root window instead.
  • --window-id number — draws on the window you point at with that number.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default is 30000 (that's 0.03 seconds for the math girlies).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. simple as.
  • --count number — the maximum number of virus particles. range is 1 - 200. default is 60.
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the viruses should wander around the screen.
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the viruses should spin.
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — renders in wireframe instead of solid.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display down at the bottom of the screen.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used 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 👑

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2020 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear 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.

fr fr read the license, it's giving generous but it still wants its credit ✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jamie Zawinski.

okay that's the whole page!! this is X Version 11, version 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — now go wash your hands and set your screen saver bestie 🧚💖

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