crystal(6x)

✨ crystal(6x) — the kaleidoscope one, and yes we're spelling it right 💅

okay bestie, listen up: this is crystal, from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's the kaleidoscope hack. Literally the prettiest thing in the whole collection. Let's get into it 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

crystal — kaleidescope. That's it, that's the whole name section. Iconic brevity, no notes 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

crystal [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
        [--root] [--window-id number] [--grid] [--no-cell] [--centre] [--nx
        number] [--ny number] [--count number] [--delay number] [--ncolors
        number] [--fps]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Moving polygons, bestie. Moving. Polygons. It's similar to a kaleidescope, and honestly? more like a kaleidescope than the hack called kaleid. That's a direct quote from the manpage and it's petty and I'm obsessed 😭 The shade is unmatched, the polygons are unmatched, we stan 💜

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🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

• --visual visual — tells 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. No cap, hex is allowed, go off 🔥
• --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get ✨
• --root — draw on the root window instead. Main character energy for your whole desktop 💅
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window. You pick the window, it draws there. Simple as 🫶
• --grid | --no-grid — whether to draw grid. That's the whole description. Whether. To. Draw. Grid. 💀
• --cell | --no-cell — whether to draw the cell 🎀
• --centre | --no-centre — whether to center on screen. Bestie it's spelled centre in the flag, keep it that way, I don't make the rules 🌸
• --nx number — Horizontal Symmetries. Range -10 – 10. Default: -3.
• --ny number — Vertical Symmetries. Range -10 – 10. Default: -3.
• --count number — Count. Range -5000 – 5000. Default: -500.
• --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 60000 (that's 0.06 seconds, for the record ⭐)
• --ncolors number — Number of Colors. Default: 100.
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. Perfect for when you want the receipts on how hard your GPU is working 👑

lowkey note: the range syntax in the original is written like -10 - 10, -5000 - 5000 — those are ranges, not subtraction, don't come for me 😭

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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.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

X(1), xscreensaver(1) — go read those too, iykyk 📚

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002 by Jouk Jansen. 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.

fr fr read that one carefully bestie, the "as is" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there 💀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jouk Jansen. That's the whole author section. Legend behaviour 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! X Version 11, dated 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and it's crystal(6x) — see you in the next manpage bestie, mwah 💋🎀