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Terminal based replica of the digital rain from The Matrix.
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TMatrix is a program that simulates the digital rain from The Matrix.It's focused on being the most accurate replica of the digital rain effect achievable on a typical terminal, while also being customizable and performant.
Installtmatrix-git
fromthe AUR. For example, with anAUR helpersuch asyay
:
yay -S tmatrix-git
nix-env -f'<nixpkgs>' -iA tmatrix
The package can be installed from the community repo:
Note: if you are using other versions insted of Tubleweed uncomment the one you're using and delete the others.
DISTRIBUTION=Tumbleweed#DISTRIBUTION=Slowroll#DISTRIBUTION=Leap_15.6#DISTRIBUTION=Leap_15.5zypper addrepo"https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:kosmonaut2001/openSUSE_${DISTRIBUTION}/home:kosmonaut2000.repo"zypper refreshzypper install TMatrix
The prebuilt TMatrix usesversion 5 of the ncurses library.To install the library on Ubuntu or Debian run:
sudo apt-get install libncurses5
Now that you have the required library you can install and run tmatrix:
wget -q https://github.com/M4444/TMatrix/releases/download/v1.4/installation.tar.gztar -zxvf installation.tar.gzcd installationsudo ./install.sh
To check if it installed correctly run:
tmatrix --version
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/tmatrix \ /usr/share/man/man6/tmatrix.6.gz \ /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tmatrix \ /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_tmatrix
To check if anything was left behind you can run:
locate tmatrix
This project uses C++17 so you'll need the latest tools in order you build it:
git clone https://github.com/M4444/TMatrix.gitcd TMatrixmkdir -p build&&cd buildcmake ..make -j8sudo make install
TMatrix is very customizable.You can change the starting title text, the color of the background and the characters, the speed, length and separations of the rain streaks.During execution you can usep
to pause andq
to quit.
For a full description of all the options runman tmatrix
ortmatrix --help
.
Suggestions, bug reports and patch submissions are all welcome.You can create anissue, send apull requests of just send anemail.For details seeCONTRIBUTING.md.
Written and maintained by Miloš Stojanović (mc.cm.mail@gmail.com).
Thanks to:
- Infinisil for creating a Nix package
- filalex77 for creating a Gentoo Linux package, adding bash, zsh and tcsh completions scripts and a .editorconfig file
- eliasrg for creating and maintaining the Arch Linux package, clarifying the installation options on Arch Linux, adding CMake install commands for the man page and helping in the creation of completions scripts
- Makefile-dot-in for fixing a problem linking atomic on Android
- sebpardo for pointing out a typo in the man page
- fosspill for correcting the name of the required ncurses library
- meskarune for the idea and helpful suggestions for creating the 'fade' and 'rainbow' options
- taschenlampe for creating a openSUSE Linux package and reporting an issue with the install script
TMatrix is licensed under theGPL-2.0-only
- see theLICENSE file for details.
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Terminal based replica of the digital rain from The Matrix.