You can also experiment and make your own[1] using TerminalTextEffects[2]. I added this to my ~/.zshrc

    > /home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd.sh

Which has..

    #!/usr/bin/env zsh

    values=("bubbles" "slide" "beams" "rain" "pour" "synthgrid" "unstable" "poop")
    len=${#values[@]}
    index=$(( (RANDOM % (len - 1)) + 1 ))
    selected=${values[$index]}

    cat /home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd | tte $selected

Change motd to have an ascii art of your choice. Run it in a loop if you want :)

1: https://keeb.dev/static/login.mp4 2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

In the good ol' days, ~1990, Norton Commander had a screensaver with stars, similar to the one in the gallery readme, but with fewer stars, that grew from a dot to bigger dot, to shining, then bursted. Nice to see something like that again.

Nice!

First feature request: allow disabling all the `tput setab 0` calls throughout the codebase. This may make screensavers look weird on white terminals but should improve them for anyone using non-black-but-dark terminal themes.

a simple one:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    _cleanup_and_exit() {
      tput cnorm
      tput sgr0
      clear
      exit 0
    }

    trap _cleanup_and_exit SIGINT

    while true; do
      width=$(tput cols)
      height=$(tput lines)

      tput setab 0
      clear
      tput civis

      x=$((RANDOM % width + 1))
      y=$((RANDOM % height + 1))
      color_code=$((RANDOM % 256))

      printf "\e[${y};${x}H\e[38;5;${color_code}m"

      sleep 1
    done

ive always wanted to build something like this for divination, an X by Y field in which each cell is randomly assigned a character from a set which refreshes on a tick that you're meant to just gaze on and look for spontaneous patterns in, maybe with some conway game of life style rules about how cells can be more or less likely to update based on the states of their neighbors. Fork incoming.

I love seeing projects like this on the front page. They are so fun and can be little small tricks that improve your quality of life drastically.

fwiw I've noticed that Omarchy[1] uses some terminal-based screensavers, using something called tte[2] to do so.

1: https://omarchy.org/

2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

Why does the cursor flicker around the screen for most of these? Does it have something to do with not double buffering the display?

For tmux users: you can use the lock-command option with something like cmatrix for a quick and dirty screensaver.

Very cool! Reminds me of the various 90s movie pretend hacker typing screensavers like Neo-HackerTyper.