hextrail(6x)

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version 6.09 · 8 versions
, in debian trixie, opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 NAME 🌸

hextrail(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual — bestie, it's a screen saver. That's the whole name vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

Okay so real talk: --display host:display.screen shows up in this synopsis, but the original OPTIONS section doesn't give it its own paragraph. I'm not gonna invent extra tea about it, fr fr. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

A network of colorful lines grows upon a hexagonal substrate. It's giving lowkey mesmerizing, highkey geometric, and honestly kind of iconic. ✨

💅 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. Slay, very official.
  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so it's already main character energy.
  • --root — Draw on the root window. Root supremacy, no cap.
  • --delay number — Frame rate. Range: 0 - 100000. Default: 30000. Big numbers, bestie.
  • --speed number — Speed. Range: 0.1 - 20. Default: 1.0.
  • --count number — Hexagon Size. Range: 2 - 80. Default: 20.
  • --thickness number — Line Thickness. Range: 0.01 - 0.5. Default: 0.15.
  • --no-wander | --no--no-wander — Wander. Boolean. Yep, that double-hyphen situation is literally what the page says.
  • --no-spin | --no--no-spin — Spin. Boolean. Same chaotic naming energy.
  • --wireframe | --no--wireframe — Wireframe. Boolean.
  • --fps | --no--fps — Show frame rate. Boolean.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. Standard X behavior, iykyk.
  • 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)

Y'all, here's the legal bit, preserved with care:

Copyright © 2022 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. Periodt.

okay bye bestie 💖 — this page is from X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and yes, it's hextrail(6x) 🫶✨

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