hexplasma(6)

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

✨ hexplasma — the hexagon plasma screen saver, bestie ✨

okay so real quick, this is a page from the XScreenSaver manual — that's the manual name, folded in nicely for you 🫶 — and it's all about hexplasma, which is literally a hexagon vibing in a plasma field. that's the whole thing. iconic.

🌈 NAME

hexplasma — hexagon plasma screen saver. no cap, that's it, that's the girl.

🌸 SYNOPSIS

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

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so picture this: a hexagon in a plasma field. 🌀✨ that's the entire vibe. main character hexagon, plasma all around it. obsessed.

🎀 OPTIONS

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, bestie. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (and yes, that id can be decimal or hex, we love options 💅).
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. this is the default, so like, if you don't say anything, this is what you get 🪟✨
  • --root — draws on the root window instead. going full wallpaper mode 🌌
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default is 20000 (which is 0.02 seconds, for the people keeping score ⏱️).
  • --speed number — animation speed! 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. math slay 🔥
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. default is 1.0, full quality 👑 (iykyk, quality vs. speed is the eternal struggle)
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. stats girlies rise 🍓

💖 ENVIRONMENT

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number 🖥️
  • XENVIRONMENT — used 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), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3fy3z3 — go look at the shader, it's giving art 🌈⭐

Copyright © 2025 by Nemerix.

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.

fr fr, "as is" means no promises — no warranty, express or implied. read it and weep (lovingly) 💀

👑 AUTHOR

Nemerix, 2025.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this came from X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026 — go forth and enjoy your hexagon in a plasma field, you absolute icon 🧚‍♀️🌸

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