discoball(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 discoball — a dusty, dented disco ball screen saver 💖

okay bestie, so this is discoball, and it lives in the XScreenSaver manual (that's the 6x part, section 6x = games/toys, yes it's a vibe). It's a screensaver. It's a disco ball. It is, and I cannot stress this enough, dusty and dented. Woop woop. 🪩✨

✨ NAME ✨

discoball — a dusty, dented disco ball screen saver, no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

discoball [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--count
number] [--no-wander] [--spin] [--wireframe] [--fps]

🪩 DESCRIPTION 🪩

It's a dusty, dented disco ball. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Woop woop. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use, girl. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of one specific visual.
  • --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.
  • --window-id number — draw on the exact window you name. Iconic.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. Default: 30000 (that's 0.03 seconds, bestie).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. Simple math, slay.
  • --count number — number of rows of tiles on the ball. Range is 10 - 100. Default: 30.
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. Yes or no, it's giving options.
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the scene should spin. (It's a disco ball. You want the spin. But the choice is yours.)
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen, for the nerds who need the numbers. 👑

🌈 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 © 2016 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.

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Jamie Zawinski. (Legend behaviour, fr fr. 🫡)

💖 and that's the whole page bestie — X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44 from 13-Oct-2026, and yeah, it's still discoball(6x). go forth and spin. 🪩💅✨
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