antspotlight(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ antspotlight(6x) ✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the XScreenSaver manual and we're talking about antspotlight, the little screenhack with main character energy 💅

🌈 NAME 🌈

antspotlight — ant spotlight screenhack 🐜🔦

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the antspotlight code displays a single ant spotting out a screenshot. one ant. one spotlight. one screenshot. that's the whole vibe, and honestly? it ate. 🐜✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

antspotlight accepts the following options, bestie, and you're gonna wanna know all of them:

  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. no thoughts, head empty, new window. 🪟
  • --root — Draw on the root window. like, straight onto your desktop's whole deal. 🌍
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. you're picking exactly which window gets the ant treatment. 🎯
  • --install — Install a private colormap for the window. fancy private palette, iykyk. 🎨
  • --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, a name or a number, decimal or hex, both valid. 👀
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. stats on stats on stats, lowkey obsessed. 📊
  • --delay microseconds — Per-frame delay. it's in microseconds, so be normal about the numbers bestie. ⏱️

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

the environment variables that matter here, periodt:

  • DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. 🖥️
  • XENVIRONMENT 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) xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6x)

Copyright © 2003 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 <tennessb@unbc.ca>, 20-July-2003.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🥹 this was X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44 (13-Oct-2026), and this little ant said slay 💅🐜✨

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