I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It’s text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It’s text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
Something cool & useful? htop. Something cool but useless? cmatrix
There are also various text-based screensavers like the windows pipes and such, but I don’t have those project names handy.
Wow! Just had a flashback to the screensaver era. If you’re ever bored, there is some neat history behind the Flying Toasters screensaver.
AfterDark was awesome
I had plain old
topand it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.I’ll also have to check out cmatrix.
Use
btop, it’s even betterMy uni lecturer me mentioned btop to me. Haven’t looked back
I discovered it a couple weeks ago. Love it.