imsmap(6x)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to imsmap(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual — it's the page for a program that generates fractal maps. We're folding the manual name in right here, iykyk, no boring duplicate-header situation 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Run it like this, fr fr:

imsmap [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
       [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
       [--install] [--visual visual] [--ncolors int] [--delay seconds]
       [--delay2 microseconds] [--iterations int] [--mode h|s|v|random] [--fps]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So imsmap generates map or cloud-like patterns. Ngl, it looks quite different in monochrome and color — two completely different vibes, and both are valid ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

imsmap accepts the following options:

• --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. 🪟
• --root — Draw on the root window. 🌳
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. 🪟
• --mono — If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. 🖤🤍
• --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. 👀
• --ncolors integer — How many colors to use. Default 50. 🌈
• --delay integer — How long to delay between images. Default 10 seconds. ⏳
• --delay2 integer — How long to delay between bitmaps. Default 200000 (0.2 seconds). ⏱️
• --iterations integer — A measure of the resolution of the resultant image, from 0 to 7. Default 7. 🔍
• --mode [ hue | saturation | value | random ] — The axis upon which colors should be interpolated between the foreground and background color. Default random. 🎛️
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load. 📈

Also spotted in the synopsis, exactly as written: --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, and --background color — they're in the mix too, even though this OPTIONS section doesn't give them their own blurbs 🫶

🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

These are the env vars that matter, bestie:

• 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 👀

Go peek at these too:

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Credit where it's due, periodt:

• Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de>, 23-aug-92. 💖
• Hacked on by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 24-aug-92, 17-May-97. 🔥

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okay bestie, that's the whole page. Cute sign-off time: this is from X Version 11, version 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and the manual page is imsmap(6x) — slay and goodbye 💅✨🦋