Tired of your boring old terminal? Wish you could spice up your command line with some animated ASCII art? Well, you've come to the right place!
Welcome to Bash Screensavers, a collection of screensavers written entirely in bash.
Because who needs fancy graphics cards and complex rendering engines
when you have echo, sleep, and a little bit of tput magic?
Gallery - Quickstart - Contributing - Spotlight - Jury - Library - Chat
Release License Bash ≥3.2 GitHub commit activity GitHub stars GitHub watchers Forks Issues
The Gallery README has info on all the screensavers.
git clone https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers.git
cd bash-screensavers
./screensaver.shBash Screensavers v0.0.27 (Mystic Shine)
1 . alpha - random colorful pixels
2 . bouncing - bouncing 'O' madness
3 . cutesaver - infinite loop of cuteness
4 . fireworks - Ooh! Aah! Pretty lights!
5 . life - cellular automata
6 . matrix - the matrix has you
7 . pipes - an endless pipe maze
8 . rain - soothing, gentle rain
9 . speaky - dramatic talking screensaver
10. stars - twinkling starfield
11. tunnel - fly into the digital tunnel
12. vibe - vibe coding
(Press ^C to exit)
Choose your screensaver:
./screensaver.sh
./screensaver.sh name
./screensaver.sh number
./screensaver.sh -r
./screensaver.sh -h
./screensaver.sh -v
./gallery/name/name.sh
We welcome contributions!
For the nitty-gritty, see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Vibe coders and AI Assistants are welcome to join the party.
The spotlight is a set of curator tools for marketing and publicity fluff, like pretty previews of all the screensavers.
Read the Spotlight Manual for details.
The jury makes sure the gallery is up-to-snuff.
They test everything. They're a bit batsy about it.
See the Jury Criteria for the rules.
This directory contains screensavers that are not yet ready for general use.
They may be broken, incomplete, or just not up to the quality standards of the main gallery.
Feel free to experiment with them, but use them at your own risk!
The library is filled with stuff about visualizations and voices.
Read the Library Index to get started.
Have questions, ideas, or just want to chat?
Made with ❤️ and a lot of bash.