worldpieces(6x)

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version 6.17 · 3 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this one's called worldpieces — it's a globe assembly screen saver 💖. like, a whole planet, being built. iconic behavior fr fr.

🌍 SYNOPSIS 🌍

worldpieces [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--delay number] [--speed ratio] [--no-wander] [--no-rotate]
[--spin ratio] [--speed ratio] [--no-stars] [--underground]
[--fastforward] [--wireframe] [--fps]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The Earth fills up with countries one at a time, solving international relations like a jigsaw puzzle. 🧩

no cap, it's giving "geography class but make it cute". the whole globe just... assembles itself, piece by piece, country by country. diplomacy speedrun, periodt. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use, bestie. you can pass the name of a visual class, or the id number of a specific visual (decimal or hex both work, we're flexible like that ✨).
  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this one's the default, so if you don't say anything, that's what you get 🫶.
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy, covering your whole desktop.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. default: 20000 (which is 0.02 seconds, if you don't wanna do the math 💀).
  • --speed ratio — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. simple as that.
  • --wander | --no-wander — whether the planet should wander around the screen or not. yes it's just vibing, let it live 👑
  • --spin ratio — whether and how fast the planet should rotate around the axis. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
  • --roll | --no-roll — whether the planet should wobble. little wobble. tiny wobble. adorable actually.
  • --stars | --no-stars — whether to display a star field behind it all 🌟.
  • --underground | --no-underground — whether to show the seamy underbelly of the countries. yeah. the seamy underbelly. we said what we said 🙈.
  • --fastforward | --no-fastforward — if you are impatient waiting for the countries to fill in, this will initially skip ahead a bit. not me having zero patience 😭. use it.
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid. skeleton mode, lowkey stunning 🔥.
  • --image file — the image to use for the Earth's surface. pick your fav, make it yours 🌸.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. for the numbers girlies 📊.

🧚 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)

iykyk, go read those too if you want the whole lore 💜.

Copyright © 2026 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.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jamie Zawinski.

okay that's the whole thing bestie, and just so you have the receipts: this is X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026, and yeah — it's the worldpieces(6x) girlies' page 💖✨ slay, bye!! 🦋🌸

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