stairs(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ stairs(6x) ✨

okay bestie, you found the XScreenSaver manual page and this one's lowkey the prettiest thing in the whole screensaver folder, no cap 💖🪜

🌈 NAME 🌈

stairs — Escher's infinite staircase. yeah. that one. the impossible one. it's giving "walked up four flights and ended up on the same floor" and honestly? iconic 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

stairs [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
       [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--wireframe] [--fps]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so what it does is draw an "infinite" staircase. that's it, that's the whole pitch, and it absolutely ate 💀✨

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • --visual visual — pick which visual you want, bestie. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of one specific visual 🎨
  • --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, straight onto your desktop 🌈
  • --window-id number — draw on the window you specify by id. you're in charge here 👑
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, fr fr) ⏱️
  • --wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. skeleton mode, lowkey ethereal 💀✨
  • --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. stats girlies rise 🔥

🧚 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.
not me needing to say this but: yes these are env vars, yes they're case sensitive, yes you should keep them exactly like that 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2002 by Marcelo Vianna. 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.

"as is" means as is, bestie. no warranty, no promises, no take-backs 💅

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Marcelo Vianna.

and that's the whole page, you're literally an expert now. this beauty ships as part of X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — mwah, slay, go walk up some stairs that don't exist 🪜👑💜

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