squirtorus(6)

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version 6.15 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

🦋 squirtorus 💅

okay so welcome to the squirtorus(6) page from the XScreenSaver manual, bestie. this is the whole “how rainbows are made” situation, and it’s lowkey iconic. ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

squirtorus — how rainbows are made. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

A scrolling landscape vents toroidal rainbows into the sky. Above, the stars are slowly going out.

that’s literally the description, and the stars going out is so dramatic but honestly? stunning. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here are the knobs and flags, no cap:

  • --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. 👀
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, bestie. 🪟
  • --root — draw on the root window. 🌍
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. 🎯
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 30000 (0.03 seconds). ⏳
  • --speed number — scrolling speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. 🏃‍♀️
  • --count number — count. 1 - 50. default: 12. 🔢
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. 📈

🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

the environment variables are giving helpful bestie energy:

  • 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 🔗

go check out X(1) and xscreensaver(1). iykyk. 💜

the legal tea, verbatim so it stays exactly right:

Copyright © 2022 by Jamie Zawinski. 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 💖

Jamie Zawinski. that’s the author, bestie. 🫶

💖 and that’s a wrap on the squirtorus(6) page. this one comes from X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026). stay sparkly. 🦋

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