kallisti(6)

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

🍎 kallisti — the golden apple of discord 💅

ok so this is kallisti(6), and yes bestie it lives in the XScreenSaver manual, which honestly is the most iconic manual there is. buckle up 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kallisti [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--wander] [--spin 0] [--spin
[XYZ]] [--spin Z] [--spin XY] [--spin XZ] [--spin YZ] [--spin XYZ]
[--fps]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The golden apple of discord. that's it. that's the whole thing. 🍎

ok but the lore though — so Greek goddess Eris was not invited to a wedding (rude), and her little retort was to toss a golden apple into the mix, inscribed: "to the fairest". and obviously Hera, Athena and Aphrodite started squabbling over it, because of course they did 💀. Zeus noped out entirely and told Paris of Troy to be the one to decide. they all cheated, ngl, but Aphrodite won by letting Paris abduct and marry Helen of Sparta. the Greeks objected to this — like, strongly — which led to the Trojan War.

Do you want to launch a thousand ships? Because this is how you launch a thousand ships. 🔥👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --visual visual — picks which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. slay.
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, bestie ✨
  • --root — draw on the root window instead 🫶
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 30000 (0.03 seconds). tiny little pause, very demure.
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. pick your vibe 🦋
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. little guy going places 🌈
  • --spin 0 — don't rotate. at all. zero. nada. 🙈
  • --spin [XYZ] — around which axes should the object spin? that's the question, and it's your call.
  • --spin X — rotate around X axis.
  • --spin Y — rotate around Y axis. Default. 👑
  • --spin Z — rotate around Z axis.
  • --spin XY — rotate around X and Y axes.
  • --spin XZ — rotate around X and Z axes.
  • --spin YZ — rotate around Y and Z axes.
  • --spin XYZ — rotate around all three axes. main character energy fr fr 💫
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. numbers! at the bottom! ⭐

🧚 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 © 2023 by Jamie Zawinski and Jared Williams. 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.

(^ that's the legal bit, keep it exactly as-is, no cap 🫶)

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Code by Jamie Zawinski; model by Jared Williams.

ok that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — go launch your thousand ships, bestie, and remember: you're the fairest 🍓👑✨

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