xjack(6)

xjack(6) — straight outta the XScreenSaver manual, bestie 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

xjack — all work and no play makes jack a dull boy 🪓

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xjack [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay usecs] [--fps]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so bestie. i need you to sit down for this one. the entire description of this program is the same sentence over and over, and honestly? that IS the bit. i'm not gonna pretend otherwise 🫶

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

and then it gets indented, because the vibe shifts, and it says:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

and then even more indented, because it's giving escalation, it's giving unhinged, it's giving 🪓🩸:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

and then it snaps back out to normal margins and keeps going, because why would it stop 😭:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

no cap, that's the whole description. there is no more description. i checked. twice. the manpage ate and left no crumbs 🍓

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

the environment variables, which are also going through it:

• DISPLAY — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
• XENVIRONMENT — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. a dull boy.

yes. that last one really does end with the fragment "a dull boy." — that's literally how it's written, and i'm not fixing it, don't @ me 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 1997 by Jamie Zawinski. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a fnord dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

fnord jumpscare 🙈 iconic, honestly.

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Nov-97.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 X Version 11, 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) — mwah, go touch grass, all work and no play and all that 🌈⭐💅