Matrix screensaver for the terminal!

 What

I was bored and started surfing on the worldwideweb and I came across an interesting website, on this website someone explained how to get a matrix effect in your terminal, I didn't know that this was possible, it's called cmatrix

Continue reading how to get this on your terminal!

 Solution

CMatrix lets see you a matrix film effect in the terminal, It's written by Chris Allegretta and it's still available on his website! You can install it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install cmatrix

You can start cmatrix with the following command:

cmatrix

Below I added an printscreen of cmatrix in action:



A nice trick for running cmatrix as a real screensaver is possible by editing ~/.screenrc add the following lines:

# This will only work in screen newer than 4.00.x
# After 60 seconds inactivity, it starts cmatrix
idle 600 eval "screen cmatrix -f -o -u 10" "idle 0"

It's also possible to run cmatrix on windows, you can do it with powershell, this code his been created by Oising and it's available on his website: http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2010/12/18/PowerShell20ImplementingAMatrixStyleConsoleScreenSaver

A compiled cmatrix is also availbale for the Windows platform, go get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/matrix32/