galaxy(6)

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version 6.15 · 2 versions
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🌌 galaxy(6) 🌌

okay bestie, this is the XScreenSaver manual page for galaxy(6) — yes, the header vibe is folded in right here. 💫

💫 NAME 💫

galaxy — draws spinning galaxies. literally that's the whole name. ✨

🚀 SYNOPSIS 🚀

Here's the exact call, no cap:

galaxy [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
[--install] [--visual visual] [--ncolors integer] [--delay microseconds]
[--cycles integer] [--count integer] [--size integer] [--tracks]
[--no-tracks] [--spin] [--no-spin]

[--fps]

Yep, that blank line before [--fps] is real. We keep the details exactly. 🫶

🌌 DESCRIPTION 🌌

The galaxy program draws spinning galaxies. That's it. That's the plot. Spinning. Galaxies. main character energy. 🌠

✨ OPTIONS ✨

galaxy 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 on a color display, pretend we'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. 👀
  • --ncolors integer — How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel. 🌈
  • --cycles integer — No description in this man page — just integer. 💅
  • --count integer — Also no description in this man page — just integer. 🫠
  • --size integer — Again, no description in this man page — just integer. ✨
  • --tracks — Listed with no description in this man page. 🎀
  • --no-tracks — The opposite toggle, also listed with no description in this man page.
  • --spin — Listed with no description in this man page.
  • --no-spin — Listed with no description in this man page.
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load. 🔥

Tiny heads-up, bestie: the synopsis also carries --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, --background color, and --delay microseconds. The original OPTIONS list doesn't give those their own entries, so I'm not inventing lore for them. 💖

🌈 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), xlock(1). go read those when you're done slaying here. 📚

Copyright © 1994 by Hubert Feyrer.

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 🫶

  • Original Amiga version by Uli Siegmund <uli@wombat.okapi.sub.org> for EGS in Cluster.
  • Ported from Cluster/EGS to C/Intuition by Harald Backert.
  • Ported to X11 and xlockmore by Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 30-Sep-94.
  • Modified by David Bagley <bagleyd@bigfoot.com>, 23-Oct-94.
  • Modified by Dave Mitchell <davem@magnet.com>, 7-Apr-97.
  • Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97.

kisses bestie 💖 this was the galaxy(6) page from X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026. slay and goodbye. 🌈✨

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