xjack(6x)

💀 xjack(6x) 💀

okay bestie, welcome to the XScreenSaver manual — specifically the page for xjack. and listen. this page is a whole mood. it is giving "I typed the same sentence until the heat death of the universe and then hit print." iykyk. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

• xjack — all work and no play makes jack a dull boy

that's the name section. that's the whole name section. she said what she said 🎀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xjack [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay usecs] [--fps]

that's it, no cap — every flag lives right there on one line: --display host:display.screen, --foreground color, --background color, --window, --root, --window-id number, --delay usecs, and --fps. the page does not expand on any of them, and neither will i, because i refuse to invent lore that isn't canon 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay. deep breath. here is the entire description, and i'm not paraphrasing the art:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

then — and this part is indented in the original, so imagine me leaning in conspiratorially — more of the exact same:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

and then she keeps going, because she is a committed queen:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

and the final paragraph, back out of the indent, louder than ever:

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

literally that's the whole description 😭 she ate and left zero crumbs of anything else. main character energy. periodt.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DISPLAY — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
• XENVIRONMENT — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. a dull boy.

ok so that trailing "a dull boy." on XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW is literally in the original, i am not fixing it, i am not merging it, it's canon now, drink water and accept it 🍓

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

X(1), xscreensaver(1) — go say hi to the neighbors, they're lovely 💜

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 1997 by Jamie Zawinski. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a fnord dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

(not me spotting the fnord in there — the cheek, the nerve, the audacity, the gall and the gumption 🔥)

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 15-Nov-97.

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, we survived 🫶 this has been xjack(6x) — part of X Version 11, version 6.09 (07-Jun-2024). now go outside, all that work and no play is literally a whole thing 💖✨