deepstars(6)

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

✨ deepstars — the XScreenSaver one ✨

okay bestie so this is deepstars, from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's literally the prettiest thing. 🎀 It's a screen saver. That's the whole vibe. Periodt.

🌈 SYNOPSIS

deepstars [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
          [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number]
          [--smear number]

💫 DESCRIPTION

So picture this: a long exposure of the night sky 🌌 and the star paths show up as vapor trails. That's it. That's the screensaver. It's giving "I left my camera shutter open all night and the universe did a little dance for me." Obsessed. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS

  • --visual visual — picks which visual to use. Legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex, queen, both work) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. 🫶
  • --root — draws on the root window instead.
  • --window-id number — draws on the specified window. you pick, bestie.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (which is 0.03 seconds, for the math girlies).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. no cap.
  • --smear number — how long the vapor trails should be. 2.0 means twice as long, 0.5 means half as long. the ✨aesthetic✨ knob.

🌸 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 © 2019 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 that's the whole license, i'm not paraphrasing legal text, go read it again if you skipped it 💀

🧚 AUTHOR

Jamie Zawinski.

and that's a wrap, bestie! 🍓 this lil gem is from X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026, and it lives in the XScreenSaver manual. slay. 💜

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