Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
Javalamp is a terminal screensaver designed to keep Mac computers awake while displaying animated ASCII scenes. It requires Python 3.10+ and can be installed via pipx or Homebrew. Users can customize scenes and control the application with various commands.
- ▪Javalamp runs animated ASCII scenes in the terminal and defaults to a warm sunset theme.
- ▪It keeps the Mac awake using the caffeinate command while running.
- ▪Users can add custom scenes and disable the sleep guard if desired.
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javalamp A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake. Install From this repo: make install javalamp After the PyPI release: pipx install javalamp javalamp Requires Python 3.10+ and pipx. On macOS: brew install pipx Run javalamp # open the scene picker javalamp java # play the Java scene javalamp matrix # play one scene directly javalamp --cycle # rotate through every scene javalamp -l # list scenes While the picker or a scene is running: arrows navigate enter play t cycle theme q quit What It Does Runs animated ASCII scenes in your terminal. Defaults to the warm sunset theme. Keeps your Mac awake with caffeinate -d -i while running. Restores your terminal cleanly when you quit. Lets you add custom scenes in ~/.config/javalamp/scenes/.
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