xspirograph(6x)

🎀 xspirograph(6x) — XScreenSaver manual, but make it bestie 🎀

okay so welcome to the xspirograph(6x) page from the XScreenSaver manual. it’s literally about drawing spirograph patterns, and we’re gonna get into every flag and every default. no skipping, no cap. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

xspirograph — simulates the rotation of a disk inside a circular rim. periodt.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

xspirograph [--display host:display.screen] [--window] [--root]
[--window-id number][--install] [--visual visual] [--delay seconds]
[--subdelay useconds] [--layers integer] [--alwaysfinish]
[--noalwaysfinish] [--fps]

yes bestie, <yellow>--fps</yellow> is in the synopsis — hold that thought. 💀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

xspirograph draws patterns such as those made by a spirograph, that is, the curve traced by a point on a circular disk rotating on the inside of a hollow circular rim. it’s giving math art, honestly. 🌀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

xspirograph accepts the following options:

• --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.
• --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. iykyk.
• --delay secs — the delay between finishing one draw and starting the next. Default: 5 seconds.
• --subdelay usec — the time to delay between each hundred line draws. Use this if you want to see the pattern form. Default: 0.
• --alwaysfinish, --noalwaysfinish — if you want each pattern to draw until it is done, specify the first. Otherwise, they will stop after a set number of iterations. Default: no.
• --layers integer — number of pairs of patterns to draw between each erase.
• --fps — it appears in the synopsis above; the original OPTIONS list doesn’t give it its own description, so we’re not inventing behavior. 💀

🦋 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)

🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright © 2000 by Rohit Singh <rohit_singh@hotmail.com>

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.

Modified by Matthew Strait <straitm@mathcs.carleton.edu> Dec 2001.

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mwah 💋 that’s the whole page — from X Version 11, version 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and it’s the xspirograph(6x) manual. bye bestie, go make some iconic little curves! 🫶