chompytower(6x)

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version 6.17 · 9 versions
, in fedora 44

👑 chompytower — bestie edition 💅

okay so you're reading the manual page for chompytower, which lives in section 6x of the XScreenSaver manual. It's a screensaver module, it's a tree, and bestie… it has teeth. That's the whole pitch. Sit down, I'm gonna walk you through every single flag because I love you and I refuse to let you raw-dog this thing without knowing what --no-tilt does.

✨ NAME ✨

chompytower — a tree with teeth. 🦷🌳

no like literally that's it. that's the name. a tree. with teeth. iconic behavior honestly.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

chompytower [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number]
[--resolution number] [--no-spin] [--wander] [--no-tilt] [--no-smooth]
[--wireframe] [--fps]

that's the whole thing. copy it, paste it, go off. 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This tree's got teeth!

that's the official description. one sentence. six words. absolutely ate and left no crumbs. the man page author woke up and chose brevity and honestly? respect. 😌

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's where it gets juicy. every single flag, no skips, because I would never do you like that.

  • --visual visual — pick 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, name it or number it, dealer's choice. 🃏
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you say nothing, this is what you get. no thoughts, just vibes, new window. 🪟
  • --root — draw on the root window. that's the big one, the background, the main stage. main character energy only. 👑
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. you point at a window, it draws there. specific. focused. knows what it wants. 💅
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 30000 (0.03 seconds). yes microseconds, not milliseconds, do not get it twisted or your tree will move at a truly cursed speed. 😭
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. wanna make it zoom? 2.0. wanna make it sleepy? 0.5. go crazy. 🔥
  • --resolution number — how many polygons to use on the trunk. 2.0 means twice as many, 0.5 means half as many. more polygons = more trunk detail. the trunk is the moment, give it the polygons it deserves. 🌳
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the tree should slowly rotate. slow rotation is highkey mesmerizing ngl. 🌀
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. it's got places to be. it's a wanderer. 🚶
  • --tilt | --no-tilt — whether the observer should look up and down. that's you. you're the observer. look up. look down. 🫶
  • --smooth | --no-smooth — Smooth. Boolean. that's the entire description. that's all she wrote. no further lore given. 💀
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. wireframe = the skeleton look. solid = the full-body look. both serve. ✨
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. for the nerds who need the numbers in real time (affectionate). 📊

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

the environment variables, aka the behind-the-scenes girlies doing the unpaid labor:

  • 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 ⭐

go read these next, bestie, I'm not kidding, they're the lore:

Copyright © 2022 by Jamie Zawinski. 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.

(legal text stays legal text, I'm not touching a single word of that. respect the paperwork. 📜)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jamie Zawinski.

okay and that's the whole page!! this was X Version 11, built as 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026, and it's the chompytower(6x) page, so now you know everything there is to know about the toothy tree. go forth and screensaver responsibly. ily, bye!! 🍓🦋💖

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