droste(6)

droste6

Screen saver.

Usage

droste [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--delay number] [--duration seconds] [--speed ratio] [--r1 ratio] [--r2 ratio] [--fps]

Overview

Mise en abyme: infinite spiral recursion within images.

Works best with images that have a central circular feature.

Options

--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.

--window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

--root

Draw on the root window.

--delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).

--duration number

How long until loading a new image, in seconds. Default: 2 minutes.

--speed number

Speed of zooming into the image. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. Negative to zoom out.

--r1 number

Inner radius of the spiral. Default: 0.2.

--r2 number

Outer radius of the spiral. Default: 0.7.

--fps | --no--fps

Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

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.

Author

Jamie Zawinski.

From xscreensaver 6.15-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.