trizm(6)

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

💜 trizm — the XScreenSaver manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, you found trizm(6) in the XScreenSaver manual and I'm obsessed. It's a screensaver, and it's giving neon cyber circuit-board energy. Let me walk you through it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

that's the whole vibe. run it, it makes triangles. slay 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Neon cyber circuit-board-like triangle waves.

that's it. that's the description. no cap, that's the entire thing. circuit board but make it neon, triangles but make them waves. lowkey iconic 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, bestie. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual — and the id can be decimal or hex, so go off 👑
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so like… it's already doing this unless you say otherwise 💖
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy: it takes over your whole background 🌸
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default is 20000, which is 0.02 seconds, in case you were about to do math 🧮
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. literally just numbers doing their thing ⭐
  • --scale number — resolution. range is 0.1 - 1.0. default: 1.0. so you can shrink the resolution if you want, no judgment 🦋
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. yes bestie, it can tell you how fast it's going 🍓

🌟 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. yes, that's a lot of words, but they matter, iykyk 💜
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and honestly the origin story itself: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3fcBD8 — go look, it's so cool 🙈

Copyright © 2025 by Matt Vianueva.

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. (that's the legal bit, and it's literally required, so don't skip it fr fr 💀)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Matt Vianueva <diatribes@gmail.com> — thank you for the neon triangles, king 💅

okay that's the whole page, you're basically a trizm expert now. go run it and vibe check those circuit-board triangles 🎀

and that's the wrap, bestie — this was X Version 11, page version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026. periodt. ✨🫶💖

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