flurry(6)

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

✨ flurry(6) — the XScreenSaver manual's most aesthetic entry ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to flurry — a colorful particle system 🦋 and literally the prettiest thing your screen has ever done. It's a port of the OSX screensaver flurry, so if you ever stared at a Mac in 2003 and thought "wow, cute", congratulations, you're home 🎀

This is page flurry(6) from the XScreenSaver manual, and no cap, it's a short one. Let's go 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

flurry [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
       [--root] [--window-id number] [--preset <arg>] [--fps]

yeah that's the whole vibe check right there ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This is a port of the OSX screensaver flurry. That's it. That's the description. Iconic of the manpage to just say that and dip 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. The legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (decimal or hex, either is fine, we're flexible 💅).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get 🫶
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy, covering everything 👑
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. You pick it, it draws there. Simple.
  • --preset <arg> — select a preset. Your choices are: classic, fire, water, psychedelic, rgb, binary, random, insane 🌸
⚠️ heads up bestie: insane will never be selected at random, because it requires lots of CPU/GPU power. It loves to eat your resources fr fr. So if you want it, you gotta ask for it by name 💀
  • --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. Numbers! On your screen! We stan a diagnostic queen 🔥

🌊 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 © 2002 by Calum Robinson.

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.

(translation: go off, just keep the notice, and no promises that it won't do something weird 🫶)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • OSX screen saver by Calum Robinson <calumr@mac.com>
  • XScreenSaver port by Tobias Sargeant <tobias.sargeant@bigpond.com>

two legends, one particle system 😭💖

🍓 POSTCARDS 🍓

If you really like it, send me a postcard (after all, you're getting this for free!). Please check this address by downloading the latest version of Flurry just before you send me a postcard — I may have moved.

Calum Robinson
133 Sydenham Avenue
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT4 2DQ

like, an actual physical postcard?? in this economy?? ngl that's kind of adorable 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this was flurry(6) from X Version 11, shipped in 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — go make your screen pretty, and remember: insane is right there if you're brave 🔥🌈✨

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