triangle(6)

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

🌸 triangle(6) — the XScreenSaver manual, bestie edition 🌸

Okay so this is the manpage for triangle, straight out of the XScreenSaver manual. It's a tiny little screensaver module and honestly? It's giving mountain goddess energy. Let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

triangle — random mountains using iterative subdivision of triangles.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

triangle [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--ncolors number]
[--fps]

🏔️ DESCRIPTION 🏔️

It generates random mountain ranges using iterative subdivision of triangles. That's it, that's the whole vibe. No cap — it just keeps splitting triangles into smaller triangles until you've got yourself a whole mountain range. Iconic behavior honestly 🏔️✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --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, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get 🫶
  • --root — Draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. You pick the window, you get the mountains, simple as that.
  • --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 10000 (0.01 seconds.). Yes, microseconds, she's precise like that 💅
  • --ncolors number — Number of Colors. Default: 128.
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load. Perfect for when you're nosy about what your computer's actually doing 👀

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. Your classic.
  • 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)

Go read those too, they're the main characters and this little triangle is just living in their universe iykyk 💜

Copyright © 2002 by Tobias Gloth. 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.

Fr fr read that carefully — "as is", no warranty, no promises. It's legally slaying but it's also legally not responsible if something goes sideways 💀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Tobias Gloth.

And that's the whole page, bestie! Big sparkly sign-off energy: this is X Version 11, dated 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), and it belongs to triangle(6) 🎀✨ Go make some mountains, you absolute icon 🏔️💜

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