gears(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💫 gears(6x) 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to the XScreenSaver manual page for gears, and honestly? it's giving mechanical romance. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gears — draw interlocking gears, for xscreensaver. yes babe, gears. spinning. interlocking. iconic 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gears [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root] [--window-id
number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay usecs] [--speed float]
[--no-spin] [--no-wander] [-count integer] [-wireframe] [-fps]

copy that exactly, don't be cute with it 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This draws a set of rotating gears. that's it. that's the whole vibe. rotating gears. periodt 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

gears accepts the following options, and no we are not skipping a single one, bestie:

  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get 💖
  • --root — Draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. you're picking the window, bestie, own it.
  • --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 usecs — The delay between frames of the animation, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (that's 0.03 seconds, okay, math girlie 💅)
  • --speed float — Larger numbers mean run faster. Default: 1.0.
  • --no-spin — Don't rotate the object. it just... sits there. respectfully. 🙈
  • --no-wander — Don't wander the object around the screen. stay put, babe.
  • --count integer — How many gears to draw. Default: 0 for random. let the universe decide ✨
  • --wireframe — Render in wireframe instead of solid.
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. numbers nerds rise up 🔥

🌱 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 © 2007 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.

read it, bestie, it literally says you can do whatever but you GOTTA keep the copyright notice. no cap. 📜

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jamie Zawinski.

An earlier version of this program by Brian Paul was written in 1997; this version was rewritten from scratch by jwz in 2007. glow-up of the century fr fr 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this slay little manual came to you from X Version 11, release 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026. go spin some gears, you absolute main character 💅✨🎀

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