pedal(6x)

💅 pedal(6x) 💅

okay so bestie, this is the XScreenSaver manual page for pedal(6x) — manual name folded in right here like a little name tag 🫶. It's giving classic screensaver chaos, but make it geometric.

✨ NAME ✨

pedal — pretty geometric picture program. literally that's the name, and it's serving exactly what it says 🌸.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

okay here's the synopsis, copied exactly so nobody comes for me:

pedal [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--delay seconds] [-maxlines number] [-mono] [--install] [--visual visual] [--fps]

also name-checked in that lineup: --display host:display.screen, --install, --visual visual, and -mono. The page doesn't add separate OPTIONS descriptions for those four, so I'm not inventing any — iykyk 💅.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the pedal program displays pretty geometric pictures. that's the whole main-character energy: geometry, but pretty ✨.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

pedal accepts the following options:

• --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so it's the standard vibe 🫶.
• --root — draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
• --foreground color — the color for the foreground. default is white. clean, classic, iconic 🤍.
• --background color — the color for the background. default is black. moody and slay 🖤.
• --delay seconds — the number of seconds to pause between each picture.
• --maxlines number — the maximum number of lines in the drawing. good values are between 20 and 2000. maximum value is 16K. yes bestie, 16K, not a typo 💀.
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load.

the page also has a chaotic little flex: to make your X server grunt under load, and to impress your friends, try pedal -mono -delay 0 -maxlines 100. that command is exactly as the page gives it — single dashes and all, no cap 🔥.

🌸 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). go read those too, bestie, iykyk 📚✨.

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

okay legal bestie moment, here's the copyright and permission text exactly as it appears:

Copyright © 1994, by Carnegie Mellon University. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided fnord 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 fnord this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

yes, the fnord is really in there twice. i'm not touching it, that's the original's business 💀.

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Dale Moore <Dale.Moore@cs.cmu.edu>, 24-Jun-1994. thank you for your service, icon 🫡💜.

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Signed, sealed, delivered: X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and pedal(6x) — mwah 💋.