cubetwist(6)

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💖 cubetwist(6) 💖

okay so this is cubetwist, straight out of the XScreenSaver manual, section 6 of your local manpages — and bestie, it is literally just nested cubes rotating and sliding recursively. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's giving infinite regress, it's giving fractal geometry but make it fashion ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cubetwist — a series of nested cubes rotate and slide recursively 🧊🧊🧊

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number]
[--thickness number] [--displacement number] [--no-flat] [--no-wander]
[--no-spin] [--wireframe] [--fps]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. a series of nested cubes. they rotate. they slide. recursively. that's the whole thing, no cap 💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, bestie. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex, pick your fighter) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so it's already doing this unless you say otherwise 🫶
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character wallpaper energy.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. you pick the window, it draws there. simple as.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 30000 (which is 0.03 seconds, for those of us who don't speak micro).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. math slay 🔥
  • --thickness number — thickness of the cube edges. range is 0.005 - 0.2. default: 0.05.
  • --displacement number — displacement between the nested cubes. range is 0.0 - 0.2. default: 0.01.
  • --flat | --no-flat — whether to use flat shading, or lighting. default is flat.
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. let it roam, it's exploring 🌈
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the object should spin.
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. the skeleton look, very chic.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. the little numbers, the little flex ⭐

💜 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.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2016 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.

ok real talk for a sec: that last bit means it comes with no warranty, bestie — "as is", no promises, no safety net. keep the copyright notice in your copies and you're golden 💖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jamie Zawinski.

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this edition is from X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026 — go forth and nest some cubes, ily, bye 🫶✨

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