slip(6x)

💅 slip(6x) — bestie, your screen is about to get SUCKED

okay so picture this: slip, from the XScreenSaver manual, is a screensaver situation where your screen gets absolutely obliterated by a jet engine. no thoughts, head empty, just blits. it's giving chaos and we're obsessed 🌀💀

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✨ NAME ✨

slip — sucks your screen into a jet engine 🛩️😭

like, literally. that's the whole pitch. iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

slip [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install]
[--visual visual] [--ncolors integer] [--iterations integer] [--points
integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2 microseconds] [--fps]

(yes bestie, copy it exactly like that, brackets and all — slip is picky about vibes and also about syntax 💅)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The slip program does lots of blits and chews up an image. that's it. that's the whole personality. it takes an image and just goes to town on it, no cap.

So where does the image come from? Great question, bestie 🫶. The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from:

• the portion of the screen underlying the window,
• or from the system's video input,
• or from a random file on disk,

...as indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file. peek xscreensaver-settings(1) for more details, iykyk ✨

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

slip accepts the following options:

• --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. main character energy, no window necessary 👑
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. you pick the target, we do the damage 🎯
• --mono — If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. delulu is the solulu 🌫️
• --install — Install a private colormap for the window. fancy behavior, private palette, exclusive 💅
• --visual visual — Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. get specific, bestie 🔍
• --ncolors integer — How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel. literally a whole rainbow carousel 🌈
• --count integer — How many whooziwhatsis to generate. Default 35. yes, that's the technical term. do not ask 🧚
• --cycles integer — How long to frobnicate. Default 50. frobnication duration, extremely important 🌀
• --delay microseconds — How long we should wait between drawing each step. Default 50000, or about 1/20th second. patience is a virtue ⏳
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load. numbers!! on your screen!! we love data 📊✨

just a heads up bestie, the synopsis up there also mentions --display, --foreground color, --background color, --iterations integer, --points integer, and --delay2 microseconds — keep those in your back pocket 💖

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. the classic, the blueprint, the origin story 💜
• XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. override central, we respect her 🌸
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — The window ID to use with --root. yes, they work together. teamwork makes the dream work 🫶

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6x)

go read those too, they're all connected, it's a whole cinematic universe 🎬

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright © 1992 by Scott Draves.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

like, you can do stuff with it, just keep the copyright notice in there. don't be that person 🙈

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>.

Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.

shoutout to the legends who made this happen 👑👑

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X Version 11 — 6.09 (07-Jun-2024) — that's the version and date bestie, screenshot it, cite it, frame it 💜✨

okay bye, go blit something 🎀🦋💅