stonerview(6x)

💖 stonerview — like, the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie so you found stonerview in your XScreenSaver lineup and you're like "what is this and why is it so pretty" — welcome, this is the stonerview(6x) page from the XScreenSaver manual, and I'm about to walk you through the whole thing. no skips. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

stonerview — 3D undulating ribbons of squares. that's it. that's the whole vibe. squares. chains of them. undulating. ribbons, even. 😭💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

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

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Chains of colorful squares dance around each other in complex spiral patterns. like, imagine if a slinky and a kaleidoscope had a baby and that baby was extremely online.

and get this — this whole thing is a clone of the SGI "electropaint" screen saver. yes, that electropaint. the way that SGI knew what they were doing back in the day. iconic behavior, no notes. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --visual visual — pick which visual to use. legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual — and that number can be decimal or hex, both work, we don't discriminate 💜
• --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. main character energy by default, fr fr ✨
• --root — draw on the root window. going full desktop-takeover mode.
• --window-id number — draw on the specific window you point at. very "I choose you" of you. 🫶
• --wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. skeleton mode. lowkey gorgeous ngl 💀
• --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. stats girlies rise 🍓

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🌸 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.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002 by Andrew Plotkin.

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.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Andrew Plotkin.

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and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially educated. go forth and stare at the ribbons of squares, you've earned it. 🧚⭐

this masterpiece of a manual was brought to you by X Version 11, release 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 (the stonerview(6x) page itself). sleep well, icon. 💖