[deleted]
Show HN: Bash Screensavers
51–60 of 82 posts
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#52In the good ol' days, ~1990, Norton Commander had a screensaver with stars, similar to the one in the gallery readme, but with fewer stars, that grew from a dot to bigger dot, to shining, then bursted. Nice to see something like that again.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#53Nice!
First feature request: allow disabling all the `tput setab 0` calls throughout the codebase. This may make screensavers look weird on white terminals but should improve them for anyone using non-black-but-dark terminal themes.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#54fwiw I've noticed that Omarchy[1] uses some terminal-based screensavers, using something called tte[2] to do so.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#55Doesn't work for me on MacOS: I get "mapfile: command not found"
IIRC macOS is at least one major version behind in bash.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#56You 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 :))
Nice. This makes them actual screensavers in my view as opposed to just animations. (Not that screens require "saving" any more, but still.)
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#57ive always wanted to build something like this for divination, an X by Y field in which each cell is randomly assigned a character from a set which refreshes on a tick that you're meant to just gaze on and look for spontaneous patterns in, maybe with some conway game of life style rules about how cells can be more or less likely to update based on the states of their neighbors. Fork incoming.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#58You 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 :))
Nice. This makes them actual screensavers in my view as opposed to just animations. (Not that screens require "saving" any more, but still.)
> Not that screens require "saving" any more, but still.
OLEDs can still suffer from burn-in, but it's also just easier to have them... turn off...
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#59Of course, if used as an actual screensaver on a phosphor or plasma based screen, eventually the character grid would be burned into your screen.
A lot of screensavers, even historically, forget the original purpose of what "saving" your screen means.
Re: Show HN: Bash Screensavers
#60Doesn't work for me on MacOS: I get "mapfile: command not found"
IIRC macOS is at least one major version behind in bash.
something something licensing something something
new installs default to bash not being the default terminal. someone else mentioned macports, but there's a new version available via brew as well