Bash Screensaver

x0rg · 2009-09-14 20:20:34

Recently I saw this interesting shell-command in commandlinefu.com

yes "$(seq 1 255)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .01; done

And I thought if it weren't funny if you could turn this "rainbow" into a screensaver that would show up every x seconds/minutes of shell inactivity. I would imagine after a time the flashing colours will get annoying but you could replace that for a clock or something.

Unfortunately I'm not a Bash-fu expert nor a programmer. But has anybody got an Idea how to realize this idea?

tcoffeep · 2009-09-14 23:46:45

That's really cool, actually

zowki · 2009-09-15 08:57:39

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think terminal screensavers are possible.

PS: But if it were possible, using cmatrix as a screensaver would look totally 1337!

Last edited by zowki (2009-09-15 08:58:08)

bernarcher · 2009-09-15 09:24:19

There is one in the AUR: terminal-screensaver.
It implements an ncurses based ASCII screensaver.

But, alas, it is broken as the source server appears inaccessible now. Yet some googeling will show you how it looks.

keenerd · 2009-09-15 10:46:04

Sure it is possible. Did you google "linux console screensaver"? One of the top hits:

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/05 … reensaver/

My personal favorite is clockywock.

x0rg · 2009-09-15 15:28:43

keenerd wrote:

Sure it is possible. Did you google "linux console screensaver"? One of the top hits:

Nope. I just searched "bash screensaver", "shell screensaver" and "commandline screensaver"
Thanks for the tip!

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