polarnight(6x)

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version 6.17 · 3 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 polarnight(6x) 💖

okay bestie, so this is polarnight, a screen saver from the XScreenSaver manual (section 6x, iykyk). that's the name, that's the section, we're moving. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

polarnight [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
           [--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--scale number] [--fps]

like, that's the whole vibe check. type it, run it, whatever.

🌨️ DESCRIPTION 🌨️

you're flying above wintery mountains and the sky is absolutely full of aurorae. that's it. that's the program. it's giving dreamy polar night main character energy and I am obsessed. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (decimal or hex, she's flexible 💅).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. periodt.
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. different vibe, same aurora.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default is 20000 which is 0.02 seconds. tiny little baby delay. 🫶
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. so 1.0 is just... normal speed. no notes.
  • --scale number — resolution, and it has to be between 0.1 and 1.0. default is 1.0. crank it down if your machine is fighting for its life 😭.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. so --fps = yes bestie give me the numbers, --no-fps = no numbers, just vibes. 🔥

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used 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), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3ss3R4 — that last one is where the whole shader situation came from, if you were curious. 👀

Copyright © 2018 by Supervitas. 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.

not me reading a whole license paragraph but okay, legal girlies stay winning 🎀

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

supervitas.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was X Version 11, the polarnight(6x) manual, package version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026. go fly over some mountains. 🏔️✨🌸

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