CMatrix
Matrix like effect in your terminal
Contents
:cloud: Overview
CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text
flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in “The Matrix” movie. It can
scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined
speed.
CMAtrix is inspired from ‘The Matrix’ movie. If you haven’t seen this movie and you are a fan of computers or sci-fi in general, go see this movie!!!
:grey_exclamation:Disclaimer : We are in no way affiliated in any way with the movie “The Matrix”, “Warner Bros” nor
any of its affiliates in any way, just fans.
:open_file_folder: Build Dependencies
You’ll probably need a decent ncurses library to get this to work. On Windows, using mingw-w64-ncurses is recommended (PDCurses will also work, but it does not support colors or bold text).
:small_blue_diamond: For Linux
Run this command to check the version of ncurses.
ldconfig -p | grep ncurses
If you get no output then you need to install ncurses. Click below to install ncurses in Linux.
:floppy_disk: Building and installing cmatrix
To install cmatrix, Clone this repo in your local system and use either of the following methods from within the cmatrix directory.
autoreconf -i # skip if using released tarball
./configure
make
make install
:small_blue_diamond: Using CMake
Here we also show an out-of-source build in the sub directory “build”.
(Doesn’t work on Windows, for now).
mkdir -p build
cd build
# to install to "/usr/local"
cmake ..
# OR
# to install to "/usr"
#cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
make install
:bookmark_tabs: Usage
After you have installed cmatrix just type the command cmatrix to run it :)
cmatrix
Run with different arguments to get different effects.
cmatrix [-abBflohnsmVx] [-u update] [-C color]
Example:
cmatrix -ba -u 2 -C red
For more options and help run cmatrix -h
OR
Read Manual Page by running command man cmatrix
To get the program to look most like the movie, use cmatrix -lba
To get the program to look most like the Win/Mac screensaver, use cmatrix -ol
:round_pushpin: Note: cmatrix is probably not particularly portable or efficient, but it won’t hog
too much CPU time.
:camera: Captures
:small_blue_diamond: Screenshots
:small_blue_diamond: Screencasts
:zap: Maintainers
:busts_in_silhouette: Our Contributors
:small_orange_diamond: Thanks to
- ➤ Chris Allegretta [email protected] for writing cmatrix up in a fortnight and giving us
the responsibility to further improve it.
- ➤ Krisjon Hanson and Bjoern Ganslandt for helping with bold support and
Bjoern again for the cursor removal code, helping with the
-u and -l
modes/flags, and Makefile improvements.
- ➤ Adam Gurno for multi-color support.
- ➤ Garrick West for debian consolefont dir support.
- ➤ Nemo for design thoughts and continuous help and support.
- ➤ John Donahue for helping with transparent term support
- ➤ Ben Esacove for Redhat 6 compatibility w/matrix.psf.gz
- ➤ jwz for the xmatrix module to xscreensaver at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver.
- Chris Allegretta’s girlfriend Amy for not killing him when he stayed up till 3 AM
writing code.
- ➤ Sumit Kumar Soni for beautifying the README.
- The makers of the Matrix for one kickass movie!
- ➤ Everyone who has sent (and who will send) us and Chris mails regarding
bugs, comments, patches or just a simple hello.
- ➤ Everyone who has contributed to the project by opening issues and PRs on the github repository.
:book: Contribution Guide
If you have any suggestions/flames/patches to send, please feel free to:
- Open issues and if possible label them, so that it is easy to categorise features, bugs etc.
- If you solved some problems or made some valuable changes, Please open a Pull Request on Github.
- See contributing.md for more details.
:page_facing_up: License
This software is provided under the GNU GPL v3. View License
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