splodesic(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ splodesic ✨

okay bestie, welcome to splodesic(6x) — one of the lil XScreenSaver hotties 💖

🌈 NAME 🌈

splodesic — k A geodesic sphere experiences a series of eruptions.

(and yes, that lone little k is really in there, we don't ask questions, we just stan an icon 💅)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

splodesic [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--no-wander] [--no-spin] [--fps] [--delay
number] [--speed number] [--depth number]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

A geodesic sphere experiences a series of eruptions. that's it, that's the plot, no notes, it's giving main character energy fr fr 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --visual visual — pick which visual to use. ngl the legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, it's the standard behavior, periodt 👑
  • --root — draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the object should wander around the screen. vibe check in motion ✨
  • --spin | --no-spin — whether the object should spin. (spinning = iconic, no cap)
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. so you can watch the numbers go brrr 😭
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 30000 (that's 0.03 seconds babes).
  • --speed number — frequency of eruptions. 2.0 means twice as often, 0.5 means half as often.
  • --depth number — depth (frequency) of the geodesic. 0 - 5. default: 4.

🦋 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.

so like, legal bestie says: use it, love it, just keep the copyright notice with it, and zero promises that it does anything at all 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jamie Zawinski.

and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🫶

kiss kiss, this was splodesic(6x) from X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44 (13-Oct-2026) — mwah, bye! 💋👑🌈
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