antmaze(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
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💖 antmaze(6x) — the XScreenSaver manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so. picture this: it's antmaze, it's part of the XScreenSaver crew, and it's a little program whose whole personality is: ants figuring out a maze. that's it. that's the vibe. they walk, they wander, they find their way through. iconic behavior honestly. 🐜✨

✨ NAME ✨

antmaze — an ant maze walker, aka the bugs have a map and they're using it 🐜🗺️

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

antmaze [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root] [--window-id
number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay microseconds] [--fps]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so lowkey the whole thing is simple and that's why it eats: the antmaze code displays ants finding their way through a maze. that's the entire show. no plot twists, just tiny little guys being brave in a labyrinth. obsessed. 💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

antmaze accepts the following options, bestie, here's the whole list, no skips:

  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. main character energy by default fr fr 👑
  • --root — draws on the root window. going straight onto your desktop background, no separate window, very lowkey of it.
  • --window-id number — draws on the specified window. you point at a window, it draws there. specific queen 💅
  • --install — installs a private colormap for the window. fancy.
  • --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. so like, class name OR the number, and the number can be decimal or hex. both work. we love options ✨
  • --fps — displays the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. basically a little stats flex in the corner: how fast, how hard your CPU is working, and how many polygons it made. numbers go brrr 📊

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number. this is how it knows where to show up. no cap.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. so: custom overrides file, it goes and finds it 🫶
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. so when you're in --root mode, this is the window ID it grabs. iykyk.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Copyright © 2005 by Blair Tennessy. 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 💜

Blair Tennessy <tennessy@cs.ubc.ca>, 8-May-2005. periodt. 💖

and that's the whole thing bestie 🎀 this was X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — go watch some ants solve a maze, they're doing their best and honestly? same. 🐜💅✨

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