stardome(6)

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

💫 NAME 💫

okay so this is stardome(6) from the XScreenSaver manual, and stardome is literally a screen saver. That's the whole name situation, bestie. 💖

🚀 SYNOPSIS 🚀

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

🌌 DESCRIPTION 🌌

Stars! A whole galaxy! All chilling under a dome that's sitting on a moon. That's the scene, and it's giving cosmic main character energy. 🪐✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — pick 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.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. Default 1.0, full quality.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

🌈 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 🔭

Go check out X(1), xscreensaver(1), and the shadertoy link https://www.shadertoy.com/view/stBcW1 — iykyk. 💅

Copyright © 2022 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.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

mrange. That's the author. Full stop. Iconic. 👑

X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — and that's the cute little footer sign-off, bestie. Byeee 💖

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