ascii-rain

Comfy rain for your console written in C with Ncurses.

Dependencies

You'll need a ncurses library. For Ubuntu packages are: 'ncurses-dev' or 'libncurses-dev'. For OSX try $ brew install ncurses.

Installation

Manual

First, download this repo:

• $ git clone https://github.com/nkleemann/ascii-rain.git
• $ cd ascii-rain

To compile and link 'rain':

• $ gcc rain.c -o rain -lncurses

Now you can run 'rain' in your current working directory by just executing: ./rain.

I you want to be able to run this program from every directory you have to copy the executable to /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin:

• $ cp rain /usr/local/bin/rain

AUR

You can get it from the AUR right here.

Notes & Troubleshooting

You'll (Or better, ncurses) need/s a somewhat modern terminal emulator with color support and the ability to hide the cursor. Working examples are:

• iTerm 2 (OSX)
• OSX Terminal
• xfce4-terminal
• terminator
• kitty
• ghostty