zoom(6x)

👑 NAME

zoom — wander around a magnified desktop 🦋

okay so real talk, zoom is that girl who takes an image, magnifies it, and then just... scrolls around it, fatbits-style. it's giving magnifying glass but make it screensaver 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zoom [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install]
[--visual visual] [--delay usecs] [--duration secs] [--lenses]
[--pixwidth pixels] [--pixheight pixels] [--pixspacex pixels]
[--pixspacey pixels] [--lensoffsetx pixels] [--lensoffsety pixels]
[--fps]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

k so zoom grabs an image, magnifies it, and scrolls around inside it, fatbits-style. it's literally a vibe 💖

now, which image it manipulates? that depends — it'll get grabbed from the portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, or from a random file on disk. and what decides that? the grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file, bestie. see xscreensaver-settings(1) for more deets 👀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

zoom accepts the following options:

• --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, no cap ✨
• --root — draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window, not me picking favorites or anything 🫶
• --mono — if you're on a color display but you want to pretend we're on a monochrome display? slay, do it.
• --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 microseconds — slow it down 🐌
• --duration seconds — how long to run before loading a new image. default 120 seconds ⏱️
• --lenses — instead of doing magnification we just copy an offset region from the original image. if lensoffsetx < pixwidth (and similarly for Y) then consecutive regions will overlap, giving the effect of looking through an array of lenses 🔍✨
• --pixwidth pixels — width of the magnified pixels.
• --pixheight pixels — height of the magnified pixels.
• --pixspacex pixels — amount of black space between magnified pixels (X direction).
• --pixspacey pixels — amount of black space between magnified pixels (Y direction).
• --lensoffsetx pixels — distance in X direction between consecutive copied regions (only effective when -lenses used).
• --lensoffsety pixels — distance in Y direction between consecutive copied regions (only effective when -lenses used).
• --fps — (listed in the synopsis, bestie — it's right there at the end 🎀)

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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), xscreensaver-settings(1), xscreensaver-getimage(6x)

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2000 by James Macnicol. 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. periodt 💀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

James Macnicol <james.macnicol@mailexcite.com>, 20-Nov-2000. much code was shamelessly stolen from the spotlight hack and a few others 🙈 — iconic behavior, honestly.

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and magnify ✨

later babes 💖 this was X Version 11, version 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and yes the manual is literally called zoom(6x) — see you in the group chat 🫶🌸