Aquarium in a Terminal – Ascii Animation Art
Animated aquariums are nice and all, but how about an animated ascii art aquarium?
Install prerequisites
$ sudo yum install perl-Curses perl-Extutils-MakeMaker
$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.4.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf Term-Animation-2.4.tar.gz
$ cd Term-Animation-2.4
$ perl Makefile.PL && make
$ sudo make install
Download Asciiquarium
$ wget http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf asciiquarium.tar.gz
$ cd asciiquarium_1.0
$ chmod +x asciiquarium
$ sudo mv asciiquarium /usr/local/bin/
$ asciiquarium
Bonus points for embedding your aquarium into your desktop!
$ sudo yum install devilspie
$ mkdir ~/.devilspie
$ vi fish.ds
(if
(matches (window_name) "fish")
(begin (set_workspace 1)
(below)
(undecorate)
(skip_pager)
(skip_tasklist)
(wintype "utility")
(center)
(geometry "1200x1200")
))
(if
(matches (window_name) "fish")
(begin (set_workspace 1)
(below)
(undecorate)
(skip_pager)
(skip_tasklist)
(wintype "utility")
(center)
(geometry "1200x1200")
))
$ devilspie &
$ gnome-terminal -t fish -e /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium
Posted by admica @ 18 January 2011
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5:34 pm
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