noseguy(6x)

💖 noseguy(6x) — the little guy with the big nose 💖

okay so bestie, listen — this is the noseguy page from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's honestly iconic. a tiny dude with a huge nose and a hat just... runs around being witty at your screen. main character energy fr fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

noseguy [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--text-foreground color] [--text-background color]
[--font font] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--install]
[--visual visual] [--mode mode] [--program program] [--filename file]
[--text text] [--fps]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: a little man. big nose. a hat. he runs around spewing out messages all over your screen. it's giving chaotic little messenger gremlin and we stan 🫶

fun lore drop — this code (and its bitmaps, the whole glow-up) were extracted from the xnlock program. so yeah, it has ancestry. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

noseguy accepts the following options, and yes we're going through all of them:

• --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. no notes. ✨
• --root — draw on the root window instead. going full desktop-wallpaper mode.
• --window-id number — draw on the specific window you point at with number. one window, hand-picked.
• --install — install a private colormap for the window. fancy colours just for you 💖
• --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. both formats are valid, so pick your fighter.
• --font font — the font used for the messages. choose wisely, the nose guy has taste.
• --program program — this program will be run periodically, and its output will be the text of the messages. the default is literally:

xscreensaver-text --cols 40 | head -n15

you can configure the text printed through the "Advanced" tab of xscreensaver-settings(1), or by editing your ~/.xscreensaver file. iykyk 🌸

• --filename file — if mode is file, then the contents of this file will be used for all messages. one file, endless yapping.
• --text string — if mode is string, then this text will be used for all messages. your words, his mouth.
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. numbers! on screen! slay.

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🌈 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.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-text(6x), xnlock(1)

go read those too, bestie, they're the whole friend group.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 1985, 1990 by Dan Heller <argv@danheller.com>.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dan Heller <argv@danheller.com>, 1985.

ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 13-aug-92.

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and that's the whole page 🎀 this was noseguy(6x) from X Version 11, version 6.09, dated 07-Jun-2024 — go forth and let the big-nosed guy say his little things 💅✨