Show HN: Bash Screensavers

#1

Post by attogram » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.

Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers

#2

Post by attogram » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:15 AM UTC

#3

Post by seba_dos1 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:39 AM UTC

You can put them onto your Plasma wallpaper and/or lockscreen background with plasma-wallpaper-application: https://invent.kde.org/dos/plasma-wallpaper-application

(thought I'd share that since its raison d'être was to put Asciiquarium there :))

#4

Post by FergusArgyll » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:43 AM UTC

Cool

What are those commit messages?

#5

Post by seba_dos1 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #4

Cool What are those commit messages?

Protip for the author: --allow-empty ;P

#6

Post by madsohm » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:54 AM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #4

Cool What are those commit messages?

AI slop - or worse, somebody trying to hide something.

#7

Post by xxs » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 12:00 PM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #5

FergusArgyll wrote: post #4

Cool What are those commit messages?

Protip for the author: --allow-empty ;P

instead of --amend?

#8

Post by seba_dos1 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 12:07 PM UTC

xxs wrote: post #7

seba_dos1 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Protip for the author: --allow-empty ;P

instead of --amend?

Instead of adding or removing a space in random files when making cute and useless commit logs.

#9

Post by alejoar » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

Doesn't work for me on MacOS:

I get "mapfile: command not found"

#10

Post by huhtenberg » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 12:10 PM UTC

For the 'life' screensaver it might make sense to use half blocks as a base rendering unit. ASCII 220 and 223.