logarithmiccircles(6)

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

💫 logarithmiccircles(6) 💫

okay so bestie, you've stumbled into the logarithmiccircles(6) page — yeah, that's the XScreenSaver manual, and honestly? she ate. this is the whole thing, every last flag, no gatekeeping 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

logarithmiccircles — it's a screen saver. that's the whole vibe. iconic, lowkey.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Zooming black and white circles. no cap, that's it, that's the whole thing, and somehow it's still giving main character energy 🖤🤍

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, bestie. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of one specific visual. pick your fighter ✨
  • --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. going full desktop wallpaper mode 💜
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default is 20000, which is 0.02 seconds, in case your brain also refuses to do that math 🧮
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. go fast, go slow, you contain multitudes ⚡
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. default is 1.0, full quality. so basically you're trading pretty for speedy — choose wisely 🌈
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. yes bestie, you can literally watch the fps. it's giving dashboard 👑

🌼 ENVIRONMENT 🌼

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number. the classic.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. fancy override situation, iykyk.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. 🪟

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/mljcWR — go look at the shader, it's gorgeous, you're welcome 💖

Copyright © 2023 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.

(that's the legal bit, said with love — don't strip the notices, fr fr 🙈)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

mrange. legend behaviour, honestly.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 — brought to you by X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026. go forth and enjoy your zooming circles, mwah 💋🌸

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