cube21(6x)

✨ cube21(6x) — the manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you're looking at cube21, which is one of the XScreenSaver screensavers, and it's literally so cute. it's a screensaver that animates the Cube 21 puzzle. yes THAT kind of puzzle. let's get into it 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

cube21 — animates the Cube 21 puzzle

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cube21 [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--install] [--delay microseconds]
[--texture] [--no-texture] [--mono] [--wireframe] [--spin] [--no-spin]
[--wander] [--no-wander] [--randomize] [--no-randomize] [--spinspeed
number] [--rotspeed number] [--wanderspeed number] [--wait number]
[--cubesize number] [--colormode arg] [--fps]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this program animates a puzzle called Cube 21, aka Square-1. and the way it picks its moves? totally random. it's giving chaos, and we love that for it. 💅

Cube 21 is a Rubik-like puzzle invented in 1992. ngl, its whole thing — its speciality — is that it can change its own shape, and it can even change the number of possible moves. the range is wild: it can have more than 200 different shapes, and the total number of configurations (assuming colors) is several tens of billions. not me doing math at 3am. 😭

👑 OPTIONS 👑

cube21 accepts the following options, bestie. go wild:

• --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
• --root — Draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window.
• --install — Install a private colormap for the window.
• --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.
• --delay microseconds — How long to pause between frames. Default is 20000, or 0.02 second.
• --texture — Use texture maps. This is the default.
• --no-texture — Use solid colors.
• --mono — Disable both texture maps and colors. both. at once. iconic.
• --wireframe — Only draw outlines. and not just the outlines of the whole object — outlines of all pieces are drawn. periodt.
• --spin — Spin the whole object around X, Y and Z axes. This is the default.
• --no-spin — Do not spin, showing the same three faces all the time.
• --wander — Move the object around the screen. This is the default.
• --no-wander — Keep the object centered on the screen.
• --randomize — Shuffle the puzzle randomly at startup. This is the default.
• --no-randomize — Do not shuffle at startup, begin at the shape of cube.
• --spinspeed number — The relative speed of spinning. Default is 1.0.
• --rotspeed number — The relative speed of the moves. Default is 3.0. Setting to ≤ 0.0 makes the object stay at one configuration.
• --wanderspeed number — The relative speed of wandering around the screen. Default is 1.0.
• --wait number — How long to stay at ending position after each move. The meaning of the argument is again relative. Default is 40.0.
• --cubesize number — Size of the object. Value of 3.0 fills roughly all the screen (its height). Default is 0.7.
• --colormode argument — How many and which colors should the object have. The colors are put on the piece faces so that the puzzle is solvable. The inner faces are not influenced. 🎨
  • se or silver — Simulate the "Silver Edition" — white and one random color.
  • 2 or two — Two random colors.
  • ce or classic — Simulate the "Classic Edition" — white, yellow, orange, red, green and blue.
  • 6 or six — Six random colors.
  • 1 or random or rnd — One random color.
  • Anything else — All faces white.
• --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.

🌈 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.

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2005 by Vaclav Potocek. 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 ⭐

Vaclav (Vasek) Potocek <vasek.potocek@post.cz>, 30-Aug-05.

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bestie that's the whole page, every flag, every default, nothing skipped. slay. 💖

and that's a wrap from X Version 11, build 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026. go run it, it's lowkey mesmerizing. bye bestie 🎀✨