Hello,

I’m looking for as many cool, even if pointless, programs as I can, be them terminal programs or gui ones. What do I mean by this? I’ll use some examples:

  • The Cube (I believe it was called Compiz): the one we all know and love.
  • cmatrix
  • the hollywood one
  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor, I saw it showcased on Pop!_OS’ mastodon.
  • wobbly windows
  • Burn my window
  • tplay

if any of you know any other fancy program like this let me know please. I want to showcase them to non-linux people to show them what can be done here but not necessarily in other OSes (particularly Windows).

  • Quazatron
    11•1 year ago
    • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor

    You mean Neko. Used to have it installed a long time ago. I don’t know if it still works in this day of compositors and Wayland.

    I also remember having a bunch of penguins running around my screen like little lemmings. Xpenguins I think it was called.

    You can also get Xcowsay to pop up occasionally on your desktop to offer silly advice, just pipe it from fortune and add it to crontab.