yetris(6)

📦 version 2.3.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 yetris(6) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

ok so you found yetris(6), the manual page for yetris v2.3.0, and honestly? you're about to have the best terminal time of your life. sit down, bestie, lemme tell you everything 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

yetris — a Customizable Tetris(tm) with a textual interface. yes. that's the whole vibe. slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

yetris [-h] [-v]

that's literally it. two flags. lowkey iconic for how simple it is 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so yetris is a customizable Tetris(tm) clone for the terminal, and it eats. it's got features you'd normally only find on modern adaptations, and it's designed to please both casual players and Tetris(tm) enthusiasts — so whether you're a "play one round while your code compiles" girlie or a full-on stacking purist, it's giving main character energy for both 💅

it's got a full textual interface with so many features: extensive customizability, GUI-like menus and options, an animated interface, and more. the way that it does all of this inside a terminal?? obsessed. ✨

fun lore drop: yetris was originally developed in C, and is now reprogrammed in C++ with ncurses. it runs on pretty much every terminal around here, but — important — it's limited to POSIX systems. so no cap, it's a POSIX-only kinda situation 🙈

🎮 Controls 🎮

these are the keys, bestie, memorize them:

  • Left, Right — controls the piece
  • Down — soft-drop
  • Space — hard-drop
  • c — holds the piece
  • z, x — rotates the piece counter-clockwise and clockwise
  • p, Enter — pauses the game
  • q — quits the game at any time
  • h — show help window

periodt. that's the whole control scheme. 💜

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -h, --help — Display the help text.
  • -v, --version — Display version and contact information.

only two options and yet they said "we ate" 🔥

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • $(HOME)/.local/share/yetris/ — Settings and scores, organized by profile

so yes, your settings and your scores live there, split up per profile. keep it cute, keep it backed up 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

other terminal tetris besties, iykyk:

💀 BUGS 💀

Of course yetris has no bugs.

...but if any 'misbehaviours' ever occur, please tell me at <eu@alexdantas.net>. 😭 (and yes, the original literally says "misbehaviours" in quotes, not me, the dev is being cheeky 🍓)

ngl if something looks cursed, just send an email, the author genuinely wants to know fr fr

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page and yetris were both written by Alexandre Dantas <eu@alexdantas.net>. one person, both the game and the docs — that's a lot of main character energy honestly 🧚

🌸 WWW 🌸

go click, bestie:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 literally every single flag, key, path, email, and link, nothing skipped, nothing invented — the facts are all intact, only the vibe got a glow-up 💅

✨ sign-off time: this was yetris v2.3.0, dated Oct2026, written for yetris(6). go stack some blocks, you're gonna slay 🎀🦋💖

📦 where this page comes from