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CLUSTER ANIMATED-TERMINAL-SCREENSAVER · 33 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-06-07

Terminal screensaver animations

This cluster comprises terminal-based screensaver and animation applications, many recreating classic effects like bouncing logos, pipes, falling characters, and procedural scenes. Dated entries appear sporadically from 2008, with single years represented through the mid-2010s and early 2020s, then more frequent monthly counts starting in 2025-10, including 5 entries in 2026-05. potemkin-pipeline leads traction with 7 stars, followed by w32scrsvr-x with 2 stars and cfish with 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2008: 1JUN 2015: 1MAY 2018: 1JUN 2018: 1FEB 2020: 1DEC 2022: 1FEB 2024: 1MAR 2025: 1JUN 2025: 1OCT 2025: 2NOV 2025: 2JAN 2026: 1MAR 2026: 2APR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 5JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2008OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 14 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01afterglow1★28 dayslivehobbyScreensaver that cycles through movie and TV artwork, title logos, and critic ratings with smooth transitions for ambient display.
  2. 02FairyScreenSaver0★23 days—Windows screensaver that shows a procedurally rendered anime eye and tracks the user's face via webcam.
  3. 03xp-pipes0★9 days—hobbyScreensaver that recreates the Windows XP 3D Pipes animation for Linux and macOS at native resolution.
  4. 04w32scrsvr-x2★1 mo—A collection of classic Windows screensavers ported to run everywhere using raylib.
  5. 05cfish0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver showing colorful fish swimming and leaving bubble trails.
  6. 06Wallhaven-Screensaver0★1 mo—hobbyNative Windows screensaver that rotates high-resolution artwork from Wallhaven's public API with display-aware filtering and an offline cache.
  7. 07metrocity0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver that activates on idle and shows animated pixel-art scenes for visual entertainment.
  8. 08niri-screensaver0★2 moliveopen sourceScreensaver that displays animated terminal text effects for the niri Wayland compositor.
  9. 09whoa-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based screensaver application that displays animated visual effects.
  10. 10zor-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceA terminal application that showcases various animated visual effects rendered directly in the command line.
  11. 11gotermfx0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays animations for people who spend too much time in the terminal.
  12. 12paper_plane0★2 mo—ai-builthobbyWindows screensaver that displays low-poly paper planes flying along random curved paths on multiple monitors.
  13. 13sysc-walls0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDisplays animated screensavers in the terminal on Wayland.
  14. 14sandscreen0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver that fills the screen with animated visual effects when idle.
  15. 15drift-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver that displays animated scenes when the computer is idle.
  16. 16pipes.c0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA small application that mimics the classic 'pipes' screensaver in a terminal window.
  17. 17bash-pipes0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal screensaver that displays animated flowing pipes on the command line
  18. 18yeahconsole0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDrop-down terminal utility that slides a console overlay onto the screen when triggered by a keyboard shortcut.
  19. 19chad_stride0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal program that displays a figure striding across the screen.
  20. 20arch-bounce0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver that bounces the Arch Linux logo around the screen.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.