mountain(6)

🏔️✨ mountain(6) ✨🏔️

okay bestie, this is the XScreenSaver manual page for mountain(6), and it’s giving “random 3D plots that look vaguely mountainous” in the most iconic way 💅. Manual name folded in near the top? Done and dusted, we’re literally here 🫶.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mountain — random 3D plots that look vaguely mountainous. 🏔️💖

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

mountain [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
         [--root] [--window-id number] [--count number] [--delay number]
         [--ncolors number] [--fps]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Generates random 3d plots that look vaguely mountainous. That’s the whole vibe, bestie — random 3d plots, vaguely mountainous, no cap 😭🏔️.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --display host:display.screen — this exact form is listed in the synopsis, bestie; the original OPTIONS section doesn’t give it a separate blurb, so we’re just making sure it’s not ghosted 👻.
• --visual visual — specify 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 that visual choice 💅.
• --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, periodt 🪟✨.
• --root — draw on the root window. Root window main character energy 🌱👑.
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window. Specific window, specific vibe 🎯.
• --count number — the count, bestie. 0 - 100. Default: 30. Count responsibly 🧮💖.
• --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 1000 (0.001 seconds.). Tiny delay, big drama ⏳😌.
• --ncolors number — number of colors. Default: 64. All the colors, lowkey 🌈🎨.
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. Stats girlies rise 🙌📈.

🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

• DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. Display detective behavior 🔍🖥️.
• XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. Resource file lore, iykyk 📁✨.
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. Window ID + root combo, cute 🪟🌱.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

bestie, go read those too — referenced and iconic 📚💅.

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

okay legal tea, here’s the exact license, no paraphrasing because we do not finesse a license 😌:

Copyright © 2002 by Pascal Pensa. 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.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pascal Pensa. Author icon behavior, fr fr 🫶✨.

💋 mwah — source/version/date: X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), and the page is mountain(6). 💋