popsquares(6)

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version 6.15 · 2 versions
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✨ popsquares(6) — XScreenSaver manual — pop artish pulsing color grid 💅🎨

🌸 NAME 🌸

popsquares — pop artish pulsing color grid. That's the whole vibe, bestie.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

popsquares [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
       [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--subdivision number]
       [--border number] [--ncolors number] [--twitch] [--no-twitch]
       [--transparent] [--db] [--no-db] [--fps]

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

This literally draws a pop artish grid of pulsing colors. It's inspired by cheesy MTV commercials — yes, that kind of energy. Iconic behavior, honestly.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --visual visual — specifies which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. This is the default.
  • --root — draws on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draws on the specified window.
  • --fg string — starting color of color ramp. Default: red.
  • --bg string — starting color of color ramp. Default: blue.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 25000.
  • --subdivision number — number of subdivisions. Default: 5.
  • --border number — size of border between squares in pixels. Default: 1.
  • --ncolors number — number of colors. Default: 128.
  • --twitch | --no-twitch — randomize all squares index into the color ramp periodically.
  • --db | --no-db — whether to double buffer.
  • --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load.
ok also the synopsis up top has --display and --transparent; the original OPTIONS section doesn't give them their own little descriptions, so I'm not inventing extra details, bestie. 💖

🧚 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)

legal bestie moment, no skipping: Copyright © 2003 by Levi Burton. 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 ⭐

Levi Burton. periodt.

🎀 okay that's the whole page, bestie — source/version check: X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), manual page popsquares(6). mwah 💋💜

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