Comments on: Random screensavers for the console

By: For The Love Of………. ASCII Fish??? | Hilltop Yodeler

For The Love Of………. ASCII Fish??? | Hilltop Yodeler — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:07:24 +0000

[...] the Asciiquarium-related comments in Kmandla’s post about Random Screensavers for the Console, it occurred to me that others may not know about and might benefit from the DEB packages that Dave [...]

By: One tool, one game, one clock « Motho ke motho ka botho

One tool, one game, one clock « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:53:18 +0000

[...] I’m going to jam this last one into my handy-dandy screensaver script for screen, and watch it do something while I do [...]

By: Five unattached ideas « Motho ke motho ka botho

Five unattached ideas « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:49:24 +0000

[...] things beyond my ability, but something tells me a simple randomization array — sort of like this one — should be able to set colors when a prompt opens. And within screen, it seems like it would [...]

By: vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt « Motho ke motho ka botho

vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:51:43 +0000

[...] it’s simple and clean and does what it says. Add it to your array of screensaver gizmos in this fashion, and bask in the phosphorescent glow. [...]

By: A few more games for the console « Motho ke motho ka botho

A few more games for the console « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:23:27 +0000

[...] get an idea from it in the lower left corner; I show it there mostly because of its potential as a console screensaver, not so much as a [...]

By: Using figlet for a console screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho

Using figlet for a console screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:29:26 +0000

[...] that as part of a screensaver script for GNU/screen, and it should display something like this [...]

By: zzer

zzer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:19:43 +0000

hmm i may suggest Borednomore from http://zzer.wordpress.com is lite and does work for me.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:33:30 +0000

skralljt – you should just have to fire off the ‘cacafire’, ‘cacaball’ or ‘cacaplas’ command on whichever distro you’ve got libcaca installed on.

By: skralljt

skralljt — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:54:53 +0000

Hey how do you use libcaca? I am trying to experiment with these screensavers but their website doesn’t explain how to call them up on the screen. aasciquarium works pretty well on slitaz and xubuntu btw. I just installed all the stuff mentioned in the readme file with the tarball of asciiquarium. But then, I have X.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:54:09 +0000

Ah, thanks. I was hoping someone would improve upon that. I have already replaced my gnarled version with yours …