drift(6x)

🌸 NAME: drift(6x) 🌸

okay so this is the drift(6x) page from the XScreenSaver manual, bestie. The program is drift, and it draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames. That's the whole NAME vibe: cosmic, flame-y, recursive, drifting. 🦋💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The exact call shape, no cap:

drift [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install]
[--visual visual] [--ncolors integer] [--delay microseconds] [--count
integer] [--grow] [--no-grow] [--liss] [--no-liss]

[--fps]

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

The drift program draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames. literally it is giving cosmic flame fractal drift realness. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

drift accepts the following options:

• --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.
• --mono — If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
• --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.
• --ncolors integer — How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel.
• --count integer — the original gives this exact flag + argument, with no extra description in the page.
• --grow — Whether fractals should grow; otherwise, they are animated.
• --no-grow — Whether fractals should grow; otherwise, they are animated.
• --liss — Whether we should use lissajous figures to get points.
• --no-liss — Whether we should use lissajous figures to get points.
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

Also, the synopsis spells out these exact forms too: --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, --background color, and --delay microseconds. They are in the synopsis, and I am not inventing extra lore for them. 🫶

🌈 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 🎀

flame(6x), X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1). go off, bestie: go read the whole little Unix family. 💅

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 1991, 1995 by Scott Draves.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Scott Draves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91, 01-Jun-95.
• Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97.

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okay bestie, that's the drift(6x) manual: X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), drift(6x). slay and stay cosmic. 💖✨