shadebobs(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ shadebobs 💫

okay bestie, so this is shadebobs from the XScreenSaver manual (it lives in section 6x, the games/toys corner of the man world) and honestly? it's giving art installation. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

shadebobs — oscillating vapor trails. no cap, that's literally the whole vibe. 🦋

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

shadebobs [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--ncolors number] [--count number]
[--delay number] [--cycles number] [--fps]

like, that's the whole summoning ritual. type it and go. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does it actually do, you ask? it draws smoothly-shaded oscillating oval patterns, and the way that they come out looking something like vapor trails or neon tubes? iconic. genuinely obsessed. it's the screensaver equivalent of a lava lamp that went to art school. 💅

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual — and yes, that id can be decimal or hex, pick your fighter. 👑
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. main character behavior fr. 🪟
  • --root — draws on the root window. going full desktop takeover, periodt.
  • --window-id number — draws on the specified window. you point, it paints. 🎯
  • --ncolors number — Number of Colors. default: 64. so many little hues, all of them serving. 🌈
  • --count number — Count. valid range 0 - 20. default: 4. that's how many of the little guys you get. 🍓
  • --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 5000 (which is 0.005 seconds.). tiny pause, big drama. ⏱️
  • --cycles number — Duration. valid range 0 - 100. default: 10. how long the whole show runs, basically. 🎬
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load. yes bestie, it'll show you the receipts on how hard your machine is working. 🔥

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

these are the little environment gremlins that talk to it before it even starts: 🐣

  • 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 read those too, iykyk. 📚

Copyright © 2002 by Shane Smit.

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.

tl;dr — free to use, just keep the copyright notice and this permission notice with it, and nobody's promising it's fit for anything. it's "as is", babe. 🙈

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Shane Smit.

okay that's the whole page, you're officially caught up. this beauty ships as X Version 11, build 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — and shadebobs(6x) is out. go make some neon ovals, bestie. 💜✨🦋

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