For people who use Linux a lot, implementing effects on Linux terminals is a cool thing to do.

Today I recommend three apps that can make your terminal cool.

01. Matrix Byte data streams

The first app, CMatrix, if you like the Code rain effect in the Matrix, you will like this app, which makes your terminal produce the code rain effect.

Take Ubuntu as an example. The installation command is as follows:

sudo apt-get install cmatrix
cmatrix
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After the software is installed, you just need to run the Cmatrix command in the terminal, and the effect of the data stream will fill the terminal. Press F11 to make the terminal full screen and the effect will look more realistic.

Of course, if you don’t like the code’s default character color, you can also specify the color you like when you run the command, for example:

cmatric -C red

In the case of red, it would look something like this.

The effect is not very cool, instant and under the character rain will always let a person can not help but look at a few eyes.

02, Hollywood

The second Hollywood app, Hollywood, is said to have been written by Hollywood’s creator while he was on a plane.

Hollywood when it runs, it creates a random number and configuration of split screens on the terminal, launches these busy-looking applications, and switches these split screens every few seconds for dynamic effect.

The installation commands in Ubuntu are as follows:

sudo apt-get install hollywood
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03. Step up on the dashboard

The third piece of software Blessed contrib, a dynamic dashboard effect in Blessed contrib. Whether it’s a flowing curve, a map with flickering dots, or a moving progress bar, a series of dynamic elements make up the entire dashboard rendering interface. When you add it all together, it looks really cool.

Blessed- Contrib isn’t actually an application designed specifically for this kind of demonstration. It is a demo file of terminal dashboard building library developed based on Node.js.

It’s not just for presentation like Hollywood, it’s a pretty useful library of components.

To install the software, run the following command on GitHub:

sudo apt-get install npm
git clone https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib.git
cd blessed-contrib
npm install
node ./examples/dashboard.js
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With these cool terminal effects, you can immediately make your terminal look extremely cool, interested friends might as well install on your Linux system to try it.