sproingies(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

👑 NAME 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to sproingies — it's from the XScreenSaver manual, section (6x), and the whole entire concept is Q-Bert meets Marble Madness! That's not me being cute, that's literally the official description. slay. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sproingies [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--count number] [--delay number] [--size
number] [--no-fall] [--wireframe] [--fps]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Q-Bert meets Marble Madness! 🌈🦋

(That's the description. It's short. It's iconic. It ate and left no crumbs. Not every page needs a whole essay, yk?)

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --visual visual — which visual you wanna use, bestie. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual — and the id number can be decimal or hex, so go off. 🎨
  • --window — draw on a brand-new window that just got created. This is the default, so if you don't say anything this is what you get. ✨
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy, full desktop takeover. 👑
  • --window-id number — draw on the specific window you point at. picky, but we respect it. 💅
  • --count number — how many sproingies get drawn at once. Default: 5. five little guys. a whole squad. 🫶
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. Default: 25000 — which is 0.03 seconds, in case math isn't your moment. ⏱️
  • --size number — how much to scale the image down. Default 0 — meaning full screen, no shrinking, no modesty. 🖥️
  • --no-fall — makes the sproingies "smart", so they do not fall down the edge. yes, the quotes are doing a lot of work there. 🧠✨
  • --wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. skeletal. spooky. lowkey gorgeous. 🕸️
  • --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. numbers! stats! nerd shit (affectionate). 📊

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. this is the classic one, you already know her. 🖥️
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. ok she's the fancy one. 🎀
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

X(1), xscreensaver(1) — go read those too, bestie, they're the whole ecosystem. 📚

Copyright © 2002 by Ed Mackey. 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.

(yes that's a lot of words but it matters, so we keep every single one. no skipping the legal bits. 🫡)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Ed Mackey. Some additional code by Sergio Gutiérrez "Sergut".

and that's the whole page, babe — sproingies, section (6x), from X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026. go make some sproingies fall (or not fall, if you use --no-fall) 💖✨🎀

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