amigajuggler(6x)

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version 6.17 · 3 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ amigajuggler ✨

okay bestie, so this is amigajuggler(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual and I am literally obsessed with it, let me tell you everything 💖

🦋 NAME 🦋

amigajuggler — a screen saver. yes that's the whole thing. iconic of it to be that mysterious. periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So. Bestie. Sit down for this one. 🫶

This is a real-time recreation of Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga "Juggler" demo — and it's a GLSL port of his recursive ray tracer. Not a video, not a rip, an actual port. The way that is so iconic of it honestly. 💅

The robot 🤖, the balls, the checkerboard floor and the mirror reflections are all generated and raytraced procedurally. Like, nothing is a texture file, it's all math doing its little thing in real time. main character energy fr fr ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, queen. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you just run it with no vibes specified, this is what you get. 🪟
  • --root — draws on the root window instead. different energy entirely.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, in case you were doing math in your head like I was 😭).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. go feral.
  • --scale number — resolution. Legal range is 0.1 - 1.0. Default: 1.0. crank it down if your machine is fighting for its life 💀
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. yes queen, show me the numbers. 📊

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

iykyk. go read those next, bestie. 📚

Copyright © 2026 by Brian Bernstein. 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.

okay so like — that's the legal bit, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Brian Bernstein.

and that's the whole page, babes ✨ this dropped as part of X Version 11, release 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — so yeah, go run it, watch the robot juggle, and think of me 💅🎀🦋

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