wormhole(6x)

okay so bestie, welcome to wormhole(6x) — the XScreenSaver manual page for the wormhole program. buckle up, we're going through a tunnel of light streaks and it's gonna be iconic. 💫

🌈 NAME 🌈

wormhole — animation of flying through a wormhole. that's the whole assignment. 🌀

🪐 SYNOPSIS 🪐

wormhole [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--visual visual]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--stars n] [--delay usecs] [--zspeed n]
[--fps]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The wormhole program shows an animation of flying through a tunnel surrounded by streaks of light. it's giving space tunnel, it's giving streakcore, it's giving main-character hyperspace travel. no cap. 🚀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

wormhole accepts the following options — here's the full menu, no skips, no crumbs:

• --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, bestie. 🪟
• --root — draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window.
• --mono — make all the rocks the same color. (yes, the manual says rocks. we're keeping it exactly as it is. 💀)
• --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.
• --stars integer — number of stars to create every animation loop. ✨
• --zspeed integer — speed light streaks fly by. zoom zoom, periodt.
• --delay microseconds — number of microseconds to delay between each frame. default 10000, meaning about 1/100th second. compare and contrast with --zspeed, above. ⏱️
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. numbers on screen, we love to see it. 📊

🌱 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) — go read those too, bestie. iykyk. 🫶

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

legal tea, exactly as it appears:

Copyright © 2004 by Jon Rafkind. 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 🫶

Jon Rafkind <jon@rafkind.com> — iconic, credited, slayed. 👑

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catch you later, bestie — this page is from X Version 11, release 6.09, dated 07-Jun-2024. mwah 💋✨