skyline(6x)

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version 6.17 · 4 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 skyline(6x) — the XScreenSaver manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, settle in, because this one is literally a whole city that builds itself ✨ It's skyline, straight out of the XScreenSaver manual fam, and it's giving main character energy in your screensaver rotation.

✨ NAME ✨

skyline — screen saver. that's it, that's the gig 💅

🌆 SYNOPSIS 🌆

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

🏙️ DESCRIPTION 🏙️

A procedurally-generated cityscape. no cap — the buildings just appear, from math, like a lil skyline generator doing the absolute most 🌃🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use, bestie. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (decimal or hex, we don't discriminate 🫶).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get 👑
  • --root — draw on the root window. living that wallpaper life.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (which is 0.02 seconds, if math isn't your moment 💀).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. so like, 2.0 is zoomies, 0.5 is slow-mo cinematic 💫
  • --scale number — frame buffer resolution. 0.5 means halve the resolution for better performance but lower quality output. default 1.0, full quality. lowkey the trade-off nobody talks about: pretty vs. fast, choose your fighter 🥲
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. yes, you can flex your framerate. or not. your call 🌈

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

bc obviously we care about your env vars, they're the vibe check of your shell:

  • 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. iykyk 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

X(1), xscreensaver(1), and https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtsSWs — go look, it's iconic ⭐

Copyright © 2015 by Otavio Good. 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.

fr fr, that's the whole legal bit, don't skip it, it's literally required 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Otavio Good.

and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 🍓✨ this was X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44 (13-Oct-2026) — mwah, slay, periodt 💅🦋🎀

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