raverhoop(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ raverhoop — the vibe ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's about raverhoop — a screensaver module that Simulates an LED hula hoop in a dark room. 🎀 Oontz oontz oontz. 💜

🌈 SYNOPSIS

raverhoop [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--ncolors number]
[--lights number] [--speed number] [--light-speed number] [--sustain
number] [--no-wander] [--no-spin] [--fps]

like, that's the whole incantation, copy it exactly, no cap ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION

So. It Simulates an LED hula hoop in a dark room. That's the whole thing. A hoop. With lights. In the dark. 💀

Oontz oontz oontz. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. yes hex, she's flexible 🫶
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so it's already the main character 👑
  • --root — draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. pick your window, periodt.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds). ⏱️
  • --ncolors number — the number of colors to use on the hoop. Default: 12. 🌈
  • --lights number — the number of LEDs comprising the hoop. Default: 200. icons only 💡
  • --speed number — speed of the motion of the object. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
  • --light-speed number — speed at which the lights animate. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. ✨
  • --sustain number — speed at which the after-images / vapor trails fade away. 2.0 means they last twice as long, 0.5 means half as long. the trails are lowkey the best part fr fr 🌸
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. she roams 🦋
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the scene itself should spin.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. for the performance girlies 📊

🌱 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 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.

bestie that "as is" bit means NO promises, okay? no warranty, express or implied, don't come for her 💀

🎀 AUTHOR

Jamie Zawinski.

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🫶 this was X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026, and yes i know, iconic. bye bestie 💜✨

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