neontriangulator(6)

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

💜 neontriangulator(6) 💜

straight outta the XScreenSaver manual, no cap

✨ NAME ✨

neontriangulator — it's a screen saver, bestie. That's the whole vibe.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Neon triangles zoom.

That's it. That's the plot. Neon. Triangles. Zooming. It's giving main character energy and honestly we're obsessed. 😭🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --visual visual — picks which visual you want to use. Legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (decimal or hex, both work 🫶).
  • --window — draws on a shiny newly-created window. This is the default, so like, it's already doing this unless you say otherwise.
  • --root — draws on the root window instead. Big "I live on your desktop background" energy.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. Default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, for the record ⏱️).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. Math is math, bestie.
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output — a lil tradeoff moment. Default 1.0, full quality, no compromises ✨.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. Yes or no, iconic either way.

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. It's how it knows where to, y'know, be.
  • 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. Put it in its little window-shaped home 🏠.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and the OG shader itself: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tXGGRD — go look, iykyk 👑

Copyright © 2021 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.

tl;dr the legal girlies: keep the copyright notice + this permission notice in there, don't come for mrange if it breaks, and there's no warranty — express or implied. periodt. 💀

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

mrange. — that's the icon, that's the legend. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 — this was neontriangulator(6) from X Version 11, release 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), brought to you by the XScreenSaver manual. mwah, go run it 💖

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