hexplasma(6x)

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version 6.17 · 4 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ hexplasma(6x) — the hexagon plasma situation ✨

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because we're talking about hexplasma, a screensaver from the XScreenSaver manual, and it is honestly giving main character energy 🌈💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

hexplasma — it's a hexagon plasma screen saver. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hexplasma [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--scale number] [--fps]

like, you run it, and stuff happens. periodt. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

A hexagon in a plasma field.

no cap, that's literally the whole description. a hexagon. in a plasma field. and it's iconic. slay 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single flag, no skipping, i promised:

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (and yes, decimal or hex both work 🧚).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this one is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get 💜
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. going full desktop takeover, no window, just vibes 🔥
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, if you were wondering 🍓).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. simple math bestie, you got this ⭐
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution, which is better performance but lower quality output. default is 1.0, full quality. so like, pick your struggle: cute pixels or smooth frames 😭
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. yes bestie, the little numbers. we love the little numbers 💀

🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

the env vars, the quiet icons, the ones that do the work behind the scenes:

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used 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 🦋

go look at these when you're done here, i'm obsessed:

Copyright © 2025 by Nemerix. 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.

fr fr, read that part. "as is" means as is. no promises. don't come for anybody if your plasma goes weird 🙈

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Nemerix, 2025. absolute legend, gave us a hexagon in a plasma field and i will never recover 💅

and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — thank you for coming to my ted talk, go run it, bye ✨💖🦋

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