squiral(6x)

🌀 squiral(6x) — the XScreenSaver manual page, bestie ✨

okay so this is the squiral(6x) entry from the XScreenSaver manual. It’s giving “tiny automata making square spirals,” and honestly? iconic. 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

squiral - square spirals screensaver. no cap, that’s the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

squiral [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
       [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
       [--install] [--noinstall] [--visual visual] [--fill percent] [--count
       number] [--scale number] [--delay usec] [--disorder fraction]
       [--handedness fraction] [--cycle] [--fps]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The squiral program displays interacting, spiral-producing automata. That’s the official description and I’m obsessed — little automata interacting and making spirals? main character energy fr fr. 🌸

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

squiral accepts the following options:

• --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. (So if you don’t pick anything, this is the vibe.)
• --root — Draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window.
• --mono — If on a color display, pretend we’re on a monochrome display.
• --install — Install a private colormap for the window.
• --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.
• --fill percent — Specify the percent (0-100) of the screen which must be filled before the screen is cleared. 60-80 percent are good values.
• --count number — The number of squiralies. By default, the screen width divided by 32.
• --scale number — Line thickness.
• --delay usec — The wait between steps. The default is 1000.
• --disorder fraction — The fraction of the time a squiraly will choose a new direction. The default is 0.005.
• --handedness fraction — The fraction of the time a squiraly will choose to enter lefthanded mode. 0.0 means exclusively right-handed behavior, 0.5 (the default) is a balance between the two, and 1.0 is exclusively left-handed behaviour.
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

🌈 synopsis-only flags, no invented lore 🌈

The synopsis also includes these, but the original OPTIONS section doesn’t give them their own descriptions — so I’m just tagging them in, not making up behavior:

• --display host:display.screen — in the synopsis; no description in the original OPTIONS section.
• --foreground color — in the synopsis; no description in the original OPTIONS section.
• --background color — in the synopsis; no description in the original OPTIONS section.
• --noinstall — in the synopsis; no description in the original OPTIONS section.
• --cycle — in the synopsis; no description in the original OPTIONS section.

🌱 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.

💀 BUGS 💀

None known. literally none. not a single one. 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

X(1), xscreensaver(1) — go read those too, bestie. iykyk.

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Legal moment, copying this exactly so nobody comes for me:

Copyright © 1999, by Jeff Epler. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided fnord 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 fnord this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or fnord implied warranty.

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jeff Epler <jepler@inetnebr.com>, 18-mar-1999. 💜

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that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 — X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), squiral(6x). slay.