flyingtoasters(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ flyingtoasters — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, we're in flyingtoasters(6x) territory, from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's literally everything you've ever wanted: 3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast) 💖🍞🚀

🌈 NAME 🌈

flyingtoasters — 3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast)

like. that's the whole name. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

flyingtoasters [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual]
[--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed
number] [--ntoasters number] [--nslices number] [--no-texture] [--no-
fog] [--wireframe] [--fps]

run it, pass it some flags, watch the toasters go brrr. simple as 🦋

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

Draws a squadron of shiny 3D space-age jet-powered flying toasters, and associated toast, flying across your screen.

that's it. that's the program. a whole squad of jet-powered toasters just... doing a flyover. on your monitor. and there's toast too. the way that this is a real thing that exists?? obsessed 🍓✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --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. ngl if you don't know what a visual is, just leave it alone, it's giving "you'll know when you need it" 🫶
  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. so if you say nothing, this is what you get, no cap 💖
  • --root — Draw on the root window. your whole desktop becomes a toaster runway 🌈
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. yes you can just point it at one specific window. main character energy fr fr
  • --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.). bigger number = slower frames, tiny naps between each one 😴
  • --speed number — How fast the toasters fly. Larger for faster. Default: 1.0. crank it up for chaos 🔥
  • --ntoasters number — How many toasters to draw. Default 20. twenty toasters. twenty. that's the baseline bestie 👑
  • --nslices number — How many slices of toast to draw. Default 25. twenty-five slices. the toast-to-toaster ratio is honestly better than most brunch places 🍞
  • --no-texture — Turn off texture mapping (for slow machines.) if your computer is struggling, this is your bestie, it's the "let her breathe" option 💀
  • --no-fog — Turn off fog (do not fade out distant toasters.) so the far-away toasters stay fully visible instead of ghosting into the void 🌫️
  • --wireframe — Render in wireframe instead of solid. like a blueprint of a toaster. lowkey kind of hot 🔥
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. numbers on your screen!! for the data girlies 📊✨

🧚 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. (iykyk)
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — The window ID to use with --root.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

X(1), xscreensaver(1) AfterDark

(don't ask me about the missing comma between xscreensaver(1) and AfterDark, I'm just the messenger bestie, it's in the original and I'm not touching it 🫠)

Copyright © 2003 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.

The original After Dark flying toasters, with the fluffy white wings, were a trademark of Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems ceased to exist some time in 1998, having been gobbled up by Sierra Online, who were subsequently gobbled up by Flipside and/or Vivendi (it's hard to tell exactly what happened when.)

I doubt anyone even cares any more, but if they do, hopefully this homage, with the space-age 3D jet-plane toasters, will be considered different enough that whoever still owns the trademark to the fluffy-winged 2D bitmapped toasters won't get all huffy at us.

ngl that whole corporate gobbling saga is giving "final boss of mergers" 💀 but the point stands: these are 3D jet-plane toasters, not the fluffy 2D bitmapped ones, and the manpage is very politely asking the trademark holder to not be huffy about it 🥺💜

🙈 AUTHOR 🙈

Code by Jamie Zawinski. Object models by Baconmonkey.

genuinely the most "of course that's the name" credit line ever. shoutout Baconmonkey, actual legend 🍞🐒✨

aaaaand that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this is X Version 11, release 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — so like, go forth, run flyingtoasters, crank --ntoasters, and let the jet-powered toast fly. periodt 🦋👑🎀

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