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Animated pipes terminal screensaver

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======== pipes.sh

Animated pipes terminal screensaver.

.. note on taking the screenshots

Font is Inconsolata, font size 24 as in 16x35 pixel per character

Image size is 640x210. A sample command, where terminal at +0+18, window border is 2, terminal is urxvt, seems to 2 pixels as padding:

xsnap -region 640x210+$((2+2))+$((20+2)) -file i/pipes.png

.. figure:: i/pipes.png :target: screencast_

Screenshot of pipes.sh, click to watch a screencast_ on YouTube.

.. _screencast: http://youtu.be/q_nYfR6CVEY

.. contents:: Contents :local: :backlinks: top

Requirements

  • Bash 4+ since version 1.0.0.

  • ncurses for tput

    • = 6.1 (2018-01-27) for 24-bit colors and TERM=*-direct.

Installation

If you want to install, you can run:

.. code:: sh

$ make install

By default, it installs to /usr/local; for user home, you can run:

.. code:: sh

$ make PREFIX=$HOME/.local install

Or any PREFIX you prefer.

The Makefile also provides uninstall target.

If you are a Homebrew <http://brew.sh>_ user, you can install via:

.. code-block:: sh

$ brew install pipes-sh

Options

See |pipes.sh(6)|_ for a full list of options.

.. |pipes.sh(6)| replace:: pipes.sh(6) .. _pipes.sh(6): https://pipeseroni.github.io/pipes.sh/pipes.sh.6.html

-t [#]: pipe types

.. note on taking the screenshots

Font is Inconsolata, font size 24 as in 16x35 pixel per character

Image size is 480x140. A sample command, where terminal at +0+18, window border is 2, terminal is urxvt, seems to 2 pixels as padding:

xsnap -region 480x140+$((2+2))+$((20+2)) -file i/pipes.t#.png

+----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t # | Characters | Screenshots | +==========+========================+============================+ | -t 0 | ┃┏ ┓┛━┓ ┗┃┛┗ ┏━ | .. figure:: i/pipes.t0.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 1 | │╭ ╮╯─╮ ╰│╯╰ ╭─ | .. figure:: i/pipes.t1.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 2 | │┌ ┐┘─┐ └│┘└ ┌─ | .. figure:: i/pipes.t2.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 3 | ║╔ ╗╝═╗ ╚║╝╚ ╔═ | .. figure:: i/pipes.t3.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 4 | |+ ++-+ +|++ +- | .. figure:: i/pipes.t4.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 5 | |/ \/-\ \|/\ /- | .. figure:: i/pipes.t5.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 6 | .. .... .... .. | .. figure:: i/pipes.t6.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 7 | .o oo.o o.oo o. | .. figure:: i/pipes.t7.png | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 8 | | -\ /\|/ /-\/ \| | .. figure:: i/pipes.t8.png | | | | (railway) | | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+ | -t 9 | | ╿┍ ┑┚╼┒ ┕╽┙┖ ┎╾ | .. figure:: i/pipes.t9.png | | | | (knobby) | | +----------+------------------------+----------------------------+

-t c[16 chars]: custom pipe

For example, -t cMAYFORCEBWITHYOU.

.. note on taking the screenshot

Font is Inconsolata, font size 24 as in 16x35 pixel per character

Image size is 640x140. A sample command, where terminal at +0+18, window border is 2, terminal is urxvt, seems to 2 pixels as padding:

xsnap -region 640x140+$((2+2))+$((20+2)) -file i/pipes.tc.png

.. figure:: i/pipes.tc.png

Controls

Press any key to exit the program, except the following :kbd:Shift + :kbd:Key:

=================== ====================================================== Keys Actions =================== ====================================================== :kbd:P / :kbd:O Increase/decrease probability of straight pipes :kbd:F / :kbd:D Increase/decrease frame rate :kbd:B Toggle bold effect :kbd:C Toggle no colors :kbd:K Toggle keeping pipe color and type when crossing edges =================== ======================================================

History

(Read full history_ in |pipes.sh(6)|_)

.. _history: https://pipeseroni.github.io/pipes.sh/pipes.sh.6.html#HISTORY

pipes.sh was originally created by Matthew Simpson and posted to the Arch Linux Forums__ in early 2010. It was also later posted to Gist__ released in the public domain.

__ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=728932#p728932 __ https://gist.github.com/msimpson/1096939

In 2015, the MIT License was added and the Pipeseroni_ collective was formed to maintain pipes.sh.

.. _Pipeseroni: https://pipeseroni.github.io/

Reporting an Issue

  • Reporting a bug__

__ https://github.com/pipeseroni/pipes.sh/issues/new?template=BUG.md&title=Brief+bug+summary

Contribution

Feel free to fork and/or create pull request following the guideline_. If you're contributing, remember your changes will be released under the MIT license.

.. _guideline: CONTRIBUTING.rst

Copyright

pipes.sh is licensed under the MIT License.

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