circuit(6x)

💖 circuit(6x) — the XScreenSaver manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to circuit(6x), straight out of the XScreenSaver manual ✨ this is the page for the circuit screensaver/hack, and no cap, it's lowkey one of the prettiest ones in the whole box 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

circuit — animates a number of 3D electronic components. that's it. that's the whole vibe. little 3D circuit bits, just floating around, living their best life 🔥

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

circuit [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--parts number] [--no-
spin] [--rotate] [--speed number] [--no-light] [--fps]

so yeah, you run circuit and then you can sprinkle any of those flags on top 💅 all the deets on each one are right down there in OPTIONS, don't worry bestie, I got you.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Animates a number of 3D electronic components.

fr fr. that's what the manpage says and I'm not gonna gaslight you with extra lore — it animates a number of 3D electronic components, and it does it gorgeously. main character energy, honestly. 🌸

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --visual visual — tell it which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. iykyk.
• --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, bestie. ✨
• --root — Draw on the root window. (yes, straight onto your desktop, icon behavior 💀)
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. you bring the window, it brings the circuits 🫶
• --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds.). so tiny, so fast 😭
• --parts number — Number of parts. Default: 10. more parts = more chaos = more slay 🔥
• --spin | --no-spin — Whether the objects should spin. (the objects. the little guys themselves. spin or no spin, your call 🌀)
• --rotate | --no-rotate — Whether the scene should spin. (yes this is different from --spin, and yes, both exist, periodt.)
• --speed number — Rotation speed, 0 - 100. Default: 1. so like, if 1 is a chill little twirl, 100 is full unhinged spin cycle 💀
• --light | --no-light — Whether to use lighting, or flat coloring. glow-up mode vs. flat-lay mode, both iconic ✨
• --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. nerd stats, but make it fashion 📊

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• 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.

these are the little environment variables doing the behind-the-scenes work, the stage crew of the whole operation 💜

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

go read those too, they're the extended universe bestie 📚

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002 by Ben Buxton. 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 basically: it's free to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell, as long as you keep the copyright notice AND the permission notice in all copies and in the supporting docs. and there is NO WARRANTY, express or implied — it's "as is", bestie, no promises about suitability for anything. read that part twice, fr. 🙈

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Ben Buxton. (a legend, respectfully 👑)

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okay and that's a wrap! this whole thing came to you from X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — that's the version and the date on the footer, mwah 💅✨ love that for us. now go run circuit and stare at it for an unreasonable amount of time, you deserve it 🎀🦋💖