goldenapollian(6)

📦 version 6.15, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ goldenapollian(6) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the XScreenSaver manual page for goldenapollian — it's a screen saver, and it's literally about to be your new obsession 💫

🌸 NAME 🌸

goldenapollian — screen saver. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

goldenapollian [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual]
[--window] [--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--scale number]
[--fps]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Enter the golden fractal doorways. 🚪✨ no cap, that's the actual description and honestly? iconic. you just walk (well, render) into them and let the fractals do their thing 💜

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's every single flag, bestie, i'm not skipping a single one:

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) 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 🌍
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (0.02 seconds) ⏱️
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast 🏃‍♀️💨
  • --scale number — resolution. 0.1 - 1.0. default: 1.0 🔍
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen 📊 (iykyk, fps counters are lowkey addictive)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the env vars it peeks at, fr fr:

  • 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 🔥

go read these too, bestie: X(1), xscreensaver(1), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WlcfRS (yes that's the shader, go look at it, it's gorgeous 😭)

Copyright © 2021 by mrange. 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 from legalese: it's free to use, but keep the notice, and there's no warranty — so don't come for anyone if it acts up 💀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

mrange. thank you mrange, king 👑

aaand that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this is from X Version 11, version 6.15 dated 30-Mar-2026 — go forth and enjoy the golden fractal doorways, periodt 💖✨

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