topologica(6)

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

💖 topologica(6) — XScreenSaver manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the topologica manual page. it's a screen saver, it's from XScreenSaver, and it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

topologica — screen saver. that's the name, that's the vibe 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

run it like this, bestie:

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

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Pulsing lines of light. literally the whole description and it ate 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. the 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. and yes, this is the default.
  • --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 👑

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4djXzz — go peek, iykyk 🫶

Copyright © 2014 by Otavio Good. 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 🌸

Otavio Good. iconic behavior, fr fr 💅

okay that's the whole page, bestie! source/version and date vibes: X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — bye, love u, slay 🦋💖🎀

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