Cmatrix

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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. It is maintained by Abishek V Ashok/@abishekvashok/[email protected]

Installation

Install the cmatrix package.

Usage

Upon installation cmatrix can be used with the command 'cmatrix'. You can change what cmatrix does with these flags:

-h: Help
-a: Asynchronous scroll
-b: Bold characters on
-B: All bold characters (overrides -b)
-c: Use Japanese characters as seen in the original matrix. Requires appropriate fonts
-f: Force the linux $TERM type to be on
-l: Linux mode (uses matrix console font)
-L: Lock mode (can be closed from another terminal)
-o: Use old-style scrolling
-h: Print usage and exit
-n: No bold characters (overrides -b and -B, default)
-s: "Screensaver" mode, exits on first keystroke
-x: X window mode, use if your xterm is using mtx.pcf
-V: Print version information and exit
-u delay (0 - 10, default 4): Screen update delay
-C [color]: Use this color for matrix (default green)                                              
-r: rainbow mode                                                                                   
-m: lambda mode