greynetic(6)

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🎀 greynetic(6) — XScreenSaver manual, bestie 🎀

okay so this is the greynetic(6) page from the XScreenSaver manual, and it is literally about drawing random rectangles. The vibe is random, the rectangles are random, the stippled/color situation is random. no cap. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

greynetic — draw random stippled/color rectangles

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

greynetic [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
[--install] [--visual visual] [--delay usecs] [--fps]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The greynetic program draws random rectangles. That's the whole plot. It's giving chaos, but make it rectangles. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

greynetic accepts the following options:

Quick heads-up bestie: the synopsis up top also includes --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, and --background color — this page's OPTIONS rundown does not give those three their own blurbs, so I'm not inventing descriptions for them. 💖

  • --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.
  • --delay microseconds — Slow it down.
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

🌈 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 © 1992 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.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 13-aug-92.

okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), greynetic(6). 💖

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