Animated pipes terminal screensaver
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
Bash 4+ since version 1.0.0.
ncurses for tput
= 6.1 (2018-01-27) for 24-bit colors and
TERM=*-direct
.
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
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 pipeFor 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
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
=================== ======================================================
(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 a bug
____ https://github.com/pipeseroni/pipes.sh/issues/new?template=BUG.md&title=Brief+bug+summary
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
pipes.sh is licensed under the MIT License.