bestill(6x)

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version 6.17 · 3 versions
, in fedora 44

💫 bestill 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to bestill, a lil screen saver from the XScreenSaver manual (section 6x, iykyk). she's gorgeous, she's chill, she's literally just vibes. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bestill — screen saver. that's it, that's the whole job description, and she ate 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Various scenes of lights playing above the clouds. 🌸

no like, genuinely. lights. above clouds. it's giving dreamy, it's giving ethereal, it's giving "not me staring at my screensaver for 20 minutes instead of working" 😭

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --visual visual — which visual to use, bestie. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (and yes, that id can be written in decimal or hex, she's flexible like that ✨).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get, no cap.
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy, wallpaper edition 👑.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 20000 (which is 0.02 seconds, fr fr).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. do with that information what you will 🏃♀️💨
  • --scale number — resolution. range is 0.1 – 1.0. default: 1.0. (lowkey a "how chunky do you want it" dial 🎀)
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. slay or don't slay, your call 💅

🌟 ENVIRONMENT 🌟

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. (she reads the vibe off your environment, periodt.)
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. fancy ✨
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. 🔑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and these absolutely iconic shadertoy links (the source inspo, the blueprint, the blueprint-ettes):

Copyright © 2025 by Matt Vianueva.

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. (so true bestie, no promises, no refunds, no cap 🙈)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Matt Vianueva <diatribes@gmail.com>.

🧚 ok bye bye 🧚

this girlie lives in X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026, and she is a proud citizen of the bestill(6x) manual. stay still, stay slay, mwah 💖🌺✨

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