highvoltage(6x)

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version 6.17 · 6 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 highvoltage — the highvoltage(6x) manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, listen. this is a page from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's about power lines. yes really. it's giving ✨industrial romance✨ and honestly? we're obsessed. let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

highvoltage — high voltage transmission towers. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🗼⚡

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

highvoltage [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--spacing number] [--count
number]

look at all those little flags bestie, they're like charm bracelets fr fr 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so picture this: you're just ✈️ gliding along, all leisurely, on a chill little flight past a bunch of high voltage transmission towers. that's the whole screensaver. that's the dream.

and then — and this is the part that gets me — you can smell the ozone. 😭💜 like, the manpage literally says that. go off, king.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per flag, no skips, no cuts, we keep every single one because that's the rule and the rule is sacred. 🔥

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use, bestie. legal values are the name of a visual class, OR the id number (and yes, decimal or hex both work) of one specific visual. choose your fighter 💫
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. main character energy by accident 😌
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. raw. unhinged. iconic. 🌈
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 30000, which is 0.03 seconds. slower than you think, faster than you'd believe 🦋
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. simple math, gorgeous execution ⭐
  • --spacing number — spacing between the towers. 2.0 means twice as far, 0.5 means half as far. personal space matters, even for pylons 🎀
  • --count number — number of towers rendered. must be 1 - 40. default: 7. seven towers. a lucky number. no cap. 🍓

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

the environment variables, aka the little gremlins in the background doing the actual work 🙈

  • 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. (long sentence, huge responsibility 💀)
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, bestie, they're the supporting cast:

Copyright © 2024 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.

okay so real talk for a sec: that "as is, no warranty" bit is not decorative. it means what it says. don't come for them if it does a chaos. 🫶

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jamie Zawinski. the actual legend. periodt. 👑

and that's the page!! this was X Version 11, build 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — take a mental screenshot of that because i'm not repeating it 😭💖 thanks for reading bestie, go smell some ozone, mwah 💅✨

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