hydrostat(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 hydrostat(6x) — XScreenSaver manual 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, this is hydrostat, from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's literally the cutest little creature in your screensaver lineup 🦑✨

🌊 NAME 🌊

hydrostat — Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles.

no cap. that's the whole pitch. a wiggly little guy. many tentacles. obsessed.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hydrostat [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--count
number] [--head-radius number] [--tentacles number] [--thickness number]
[--length number] [--gravity number] [--current number] [--friction
number] [--no-pulse] [--wireframe] [--fps]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles. yes she's back.

so like, a muscular hydrostat — that's the science word, iykyk — is a biological structure used to move its host about, and it's made of muscles with no skeletal support at all. it does its whole hydraulic movement thing without fluid in a separate compartment, the way a hydrostatic skeleton would. it's giving boneless icon. it's giving main character energy with zero bones. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, bestie, it's what you get if you don't say anything.
  • --root — draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
  • --count number — number of squid. 1 - 100. default: 10.
  • --head-radius number — head size. 10 - 100. default: 60.
  • --tentacles number — number of tentacles. 3 - 100. default: 40.
  • --thickness number — thickness of tentacles. 3 - 40. default: 18.
  • --length number — length of tentacles. 10 - 150. default: 70.
  • --gravity number — strength of gravity. 0 - 10.0. default: 0.5.
  • --current number — strength of current. 0.0 - 10.0. default: 0.25.
  • --friction number — coefficient of friction. 0.0 - 0.1. default: 0.02.
  • --pulse | --no-pulse — whether the squid should pulse. default true.
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

🌈 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 © 2016 by Justin Windle and 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.

fr fr, read the license, it's short, it's giving generous 💖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Justin Windle and Jamie Zawinski.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — this one's from X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026. slay, go watch the squids wiggle 💅🦑✨

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