TMatrix

TMatrix is a program that simulates the digital rain from The Matrix. It's focused on being the most accurate replica of the digital rain effect achievable on a typical terminal, while also being customizable and performant.

Installation

Install on Arch Linux

Install

tmatrix-git

yay

shell
yay -S tmatrix-git

Install on Gentoo Linux

eselect repository enable bright
emerge --ask tmatrix

Install on any Nix system

nix-env -f '' -iA tmatrix

Install on openSUSE Linux

The package can be installed from the community repo:

For openSUSE Tumbleweed

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:kosmonaut2000/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:kosmonaut2000.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install TMatrix

For openSUSE Leap 15.2

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:kosmonaut2000/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/home:kosmonaut2000.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install TMatrix

Download and install on other GNU/Linux distributions

The prebuilt TMatrix uses version 5 of the ncurses library. To install the library on Ubuntu or Debian run:

shell
sudo apt-get install libncurses5

shell
wget -q https://github.com/M4444/TMatrix/releases/download/v1.3/installation.tar.gz
tar -zxvf installation.tar.gz
cd installation
sudo ./install.sh

shell
tmatrix --version

Uninstall

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/tmatrix \
           /usr/share/man/man6/tmatrix.6.gz \
           /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tmatrix \
           /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_tmatrix

To check if anything was left behind you can run:

shell
locate tmatrix

Build and install from source

Tools

This project uses C++17 so you'll need the latest tools in order you build it: - CMake 3.8+ - GCC 7+ or Clang 5+

Library

• ncurses

Commands

git clone https://github.com/M4444/TMatrix.git
cd TMatrix
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j8
sudo make install

Info

Options

TMatrix is very customizable. You can change the starting title text, the color of the background and the characters, the speed, length and separations of the rain streaks. During execution you can use

p

q

For a full description of all the options run

man tmatrix

tmatrix --help

Contributing

Suggestions, bug reports and patch submissions are all welcome. You can create an issue, send a pull requests of just send an email. For details see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Author

Written and maintained by Miloš Stojanović ([email protected]).

Acknowledgments

Thanks to: - Infinisil for creating a Nix package - filalex77 for creating a Gentoo Linux package, adding bash, zsh and tcsh completions scripts and a .editorconfig file - eliasrg for creating and maintaining the Arch Linux package, clarifying the installation options on Arch Linux, adding CMake install commands for the man page and helping in the creation of completions scripts - Makefile-dot-in for fixing a problem linking atomic on Android - sebpardo for pointing out a typo in the man page - fosspill for correcting the name of the required ncurses library - meskarune for the idea and helpful suggestions for creating the 'fade' and 'rainbow' options - taschenlampe for creating a openSUSE Linux package and reporting an issue with the install script

License

TMatrix is licensed under the

GPL-2.0-only

Donations

If you wish to send a donation you can do so here or here .

How it looks