vigilance(6)

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

✨ vigilance(6) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to vigilance — it's a page from the XScreenSaver manual and honestly it's giving main character energy 🎀

vigilance [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
          [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number]
          [--count number]

💅 NAME 💅

vigilance — a screen saver. that's it. that's the name. periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

A set of security cameras keep very careful track of their surroundings.

You can trust them.

Everything is completely under control. 🙈

no like. truly. do not worry about it. everything is fine. everything is completely under control. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --visual visual — tell it which visual to use, bestie. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual — and yes the id can be decimal or hex, we love options. 🦋
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so like, if you do nothing, this is what you get. slay.
  • --root — draw on the root window. iconic.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. you pick, we draw. 💅
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, tiny little baby delay 🎀).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. math is math. ⭐
  • --count number — number of cameras. 1 - 50. default: 5. five cameras. five. watching. everything. 🔥

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. the classic. iykyk.
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. yes bestie, all of those words are real and all of them matter. 💜
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2017 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.

fr fr read that part. "as is." no warranty. no cap. 😭

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jamie Zawinski.

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🍓 this lil cutie is from X Version 11, version 6.15, dated 30-Mar-2026 — mwah, take care of her, and remember: the cameras are watching and everything is completely under control 💖✨🎀

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