- Overview
- Build Dependencies
- Building and Installation
- Usage
- Captures
- Maintainer
- Contribution Guide
- License
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!!!
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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.
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).
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.
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 installHere 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
After you have installed cmatrix just type the command cmatrix to run it :)
cmatrixRun with different arguments to get different effects.
cmatrix [-abBflohnsmVx] [-u update] [-C color]Example:
cmatrix -ba -u 2 -C redFor 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
📍 Note: cmatrix is probably not particularly portable or efficient, but it won't hog too much CPU time.
- ➤ Abishek V Ashok [Core] - abishekvashok@gmail.com
- ➤ Chris Allegretta chrisa@asty.org 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
-uand-lmodes/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.
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.
This software is provided under the GNU GPL v3. View License