maze3d(6)

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🌀 maze3d(6) — the XScreenSaver manual, bestie edition 💅

okay so you found maze3d in the XScreenSaver manual and you're like "what is this" — don't worry, I got you. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

maze3d — a 3D maze. literally that's it, that's the vibe. 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

maze3d [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--speed float] [--delay number] [--fps]
[--rows number] [--columns number] [--overlay] [--wall-texture texture]
[--floor-texture texture] [--ceiling-texture texture] [--drop-acid]
[--drop-acid-walls] [--drop-acid-floor] [--drop-acid-ceiling]
[--inverters number] [--rats number]

like, yes, it's a lot of flags. breathe. we'll go through every single one. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

It's a recreation of the 3D Maze screensaver from Windows 95. no cap. that's the whole thing. nostalgic main character energy 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every flag, bestie, all of them, no skips:

  • --visual visual — picks which visual to use. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. iykyk.
  • --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.
  • --window-id number — draws on the specific window you point at.
  • --speed number — speed of the dungeon crawl. 2 is twice as fast, 0.5 is half as fast. zoom zoom 🔥
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (0.02 seconds). tiny little pause between frames, adorable.
  • --fps | --no-fps — displays the current frame rate and CPU load. numbers on screen. very demure.
  • --rows number — the number of rows in the maze. default: 12.
  • --columns number — the number of columns in the maze. default: 12.
  • --overlay — overlays a minimap of the maze on the screen. map girlies rise 🙈
  • --wall-texture texture — sets the wall texture. texture can be a path to an image file, or it can be one of the built-in textures (see TEXTURES below 👀).
  • --floor-texture texture — sets the floor texture. texture can be a path to an image file, or it can be one of the built-in textures (see TEXTURES below 👀).
  • --ceiling-texture texture — sets the ceiling texture. texture can be a path to an image file, or it can be one of the built-in textures (see TEXTURES below 👀).
  • --drop-acid-walls — continuously shifts the hue of the wall texture. (this looks like an LSD trip, hence the name.) 🍄
  • --drop-acid-floor — continuously shifts the hue of the floor texture.
  • --drop-acid-ceiling — continuously shifts the hue of the ceiling texture.
  • --drop-acid — turns on all three. all of them. at once. godspeed 💀
  • --inverters number — sets the number of inverters (the spinny grey things that flip the camera upside-down) in the maze. default: 10.
  • --rats number — sets the number of rats, or rather "Bobs", in the maze. default: 1. yeah. "Bobs". that's what they're called. iconique. 🐀

🦋 TEXTURES 🦋

the wall, ceiling, and floor textures can be set to one of the following:

  • brick-wall — a brick wall. this is the default wall texture. classic 🧱
  • wood-floor — a wooden floor. this is the default floor texture. cozy 🌸
  • ceiling-tiles — ceiling tiles. this is the default ceiling texture. very office-core.

you can also specify a path to an image file, instead of using one of the built-in textures. go off, use your own pic 💖

🌟 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 © 2018 by sudoer@riseup.net. 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.

like, fr, no warranty, don't come for them if it breaks 😭

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 this lil doc is from the XScreenSaver manual, X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026 — go build a maze, drop some acid (the flag!! the flag 🍄), and say hi to Bob for me 🌈✨

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