flame(6)

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💖 flame(6) — draw weird cosmic fractals 💖

okay bestie, welcome to flame(6) from the XScreenSaver manual — this is the page for the little program that makes colorful fractal displays. It’s giving cosmic screensaver main character energy, fr fr. 🌈✨ no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

flame — draw weird cosmic fractals

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

flame [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
       color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install]
       [--visual visual] [--colors integer] [--iterations integer] [--points
       integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2 microseconds] [--fps]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The flame program generates colorful fractal displays. The way it just does that? Iconic. It’s literally out here making colorful fractals, periodt. 🔥🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

flame accepts the following options:

  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
  • --root — draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
  • --mono — if you’re on a color display, pretend you’re on a monochrome display.
  • --install — install a private colormap for the window.
  • --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.
  • --colors integer — how many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64.
  • --iterations integer — how many fractals to generate. Default 25.
  • --points integer — how many pixels to draw for each fractal. Default 10000.
  • --delay microseconds — how long we should wait between drawing each fractal. Default 50000, or about 1/20th second.
  • --delay2 microseconds — how long we should wait before clearing the screen when each run ends. Default 2000000, or two seconds.
  • --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load.

Also up in the synopsis: --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, and --background color. This page doesn’t give them their own descriptions in the OPTIONS list, and I’m not inventing extra lore, bestie. 💀

🌸 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 🔥

Copyright © 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton

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

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91.n

Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.

X Version 11 · 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) · flame(6) — that’s the whole page, bestie. bye, love u, slay 💖✨

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