tronbit(6)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the tronbit(6) page from the XScreenSaver manual, and the name line is literally this:

tronbit - Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes.

That's it. That's the name. iconic. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tronbit [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
        [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed ratio] [--spin]
        [--wander] [--wireframe] [--fps]

run it like that, no cap. The flags are doing their little group-chat roll call. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so the plot: this thing draws an animation of the character "Bit" from the film, Tron. Yes, that Bit. The little geometry gremlin. ✨

The "yes" state is a tetrahedron; the "no" state is the second stellation of an icosahedron; and the idle state oscillates between a small triambic icosahedron and the compound of an icosahedron and a dodecahedron.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay options time, bestie. One bullet each, no skipping. periodt. 🍓

• --display host:display.screen — this one is in the synopsis; the OPTIONS section on this page doesn’t give it its own paragraph. Still part of the lineup. iykyk.
• --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. slay.
• --root — draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
• --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.). yes the tiny delay is doing a lot.
• --speed number — how fast the animation should run. Less than 1 for slower, greater than 1 for faster. (The synopsis spells the placeholder ratio; the option spells it number.) math but make it cute.
• --spin — appears in the synopsis. The OPTIONS section below only spells out --no-spin, so that’s the detailed rotate-related one on this page. don’t come for me.
• --no-spin — don’t rotate.
• --wander — appears in the synopsis. The OPTIONS section below only spells out --no-wander, so that’s the detailed wander-related one on this page. same energy.
• --no-wander — don’t wander around.
• --wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid.
• --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. numbers on screen, we love to see it.

🦋 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. very resource manager of it.
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. for the root situation.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these too, bestie, in this order:

• X(1)
• polyhedra(1)
• dangerball(1)
• companioncube(1)
• xscreensaver(1)
• TRON

TRON is technically in SEE ALSO and I respect it. 😭

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay the legal tea, word for word, because we do not play with copyright:

Copyright © 2011 by Jamie Zawinski. 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 💜

Jamie Zawinski, who fights for the users. not all heroes wear capes. 🫶

okay bye bestie 💖 this page is from X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), and it’s the tronbit(6) manual. mwah 🫶