CMatrix

Matrix like effect in your terminal

Contents

• Overview
• Build Dependencies
• Building and Installation
  • Using configure (recommended)
  • Using CMake
• Usage
• Captures
  • Screenshots
  • Screencasts
• Maintainer
  • Contributors
• Contribution Guide
• License

: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.

• ncurses

: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.

:small_blue_diamond: Using configure (recommended for most linux/mingw users)

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

• ➤ Abishek V Ashok [Core] - [email protected]
  

: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