stripeytorus(6)

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

✨ stripeytorus — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so this is stripeytorus(6), straight out of the XScreenSaver manual, and bestie you're gonna love it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

stripeytorus — a torus screen saver. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🍩

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

like, you run it, stuff happens. iconic behavior honestly 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The stylish interior of a torus. ✨

no cap, that's the entire description. the stylish interior of a torus. we're looking at the inside of a donut and it's giving main character energy. obsessed 🍩💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. iykyk 💅
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. lowkey the lazy option and we respect it 🫶
  • --root — draws on the root window. going full desktop wallpaper mode 🌈
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, 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. so 2.0 is zoomies mode and 0.5 is sleepy mode, fr fr 🔥
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. default 1.0, full quality. yes bestie, you can trade pixels for frames 💀
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. --fps = yes show me the numbers, --no-fps = no ❤️

🌟 ENVIRONMENT 🌟

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. the classic 😌
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. fancy behavior but okay 🎀
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. pairing these two together is the move 🔑

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

X(1), xscreensaver(1), https://www.shadertoy.com/view/fd33zn

yes the last one is a whole URL and yes you should go look at it. the original shader lives there and it ate 🌈⭐

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: go off, just keep the notice, and no promises that it works — which honestly is the most relatable thing in this whole page 🙈)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

mrange.

just mrange. a legend, a single name, no elaboration. we love a mysterious icon 💜

and that's the whole manpage bestie!! 🫶 this beauty ships as part of X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026 — go forth and stare at the inside of a torus, you've earned it 💅✨🎀

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