XFLIP(6)

✨ NAME ✨

xflip, meltdown — astonish your friends with interesting X effects 🦋

okay bestie, listen. these two little gremlins (that's xflip and meltdown, the Games Manual girlies, XFLIP(6) coded in the corner) exist for exactly one reason: to make an X display do something unhinged and beautiful. no cap.

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

xflip [-planes] [-vert] [-oblic] [-fast | -random] [-times number]
[-display displayname]
meltdown [-planes] [-display displayname] [-delay x] [-wait n | -wait 0]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this manual page documents briefly the xflip and meltdown commands. that's literally the whole brief. it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but like, other people can absolutely use it too, no gatekeeping 🫶), because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome.

the programs play with the X display, producing some interesting effects. and the one traditional use of these commands, the iconic use, the main character use? having them run and affect someone else's X display as a practical joke. 😭💀 it's giving chaotic evil and we love that for them.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -display displayname — the X display to operate on. pick your victim, bestie. 🎯
• -planes — operate on a singleplane at a time. one plane. at a time. very demure, very mindful.
• -vert — flip the screen vertically. upside-down world, yassified. 🙃
• -oblic — flip the screen vertically and horizontally at the same time. both axes, because why choose. it's giving full chaos. 🔥
• -random — flip small random pieces of the screen instead of the while display. chaos confetti mode ✨
• -times number — specifies the number of pieces of the screen to flip when -random is used. the default is 300. three hundred little flips, slay.
• -delay x — meltdown may run too fast on fast computers to be fully appreciated (rip, it's just zooming past you 😭), so this is how you slow it down. if specified, every x times the display is updated, a 1 microsecond delay will be inserted. the default is no delay at all. reasonable values for x are in the 20 to 200 range.
• -wait n — makes meltdown wait for n seconds after the screen is totally black. and if you pass 0 to -wait, it will wait until you press a key or mouse button. so like, -wait 0 = your move, bestie. 👑

also appearing in the synopsis up there: -fast, sitting alongside -random as its either/or partner ([-fast | -random]). it's in the synopsis, that's the whole story. 🙈

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. an absolute icon, fr fr. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie — XFLIP(6), the Games Manual section, documented and devoured. go flip somebody's screen, respectfully. 🌈💜