sambattalio / chad_stride

A small curses program to stride across your terminal

Chad Stride

Like sl & cmatrix, but better.

Features

On call, chad by default strides across your screen once and exits. However, his activity can be changed by the following flags:

• -c [r|g|b|m|c|y]: Change chad's color & enable color changing via keyboard input while running. (thanks @ginglis13!)

• -a SLEEP_TIME: Adjust sleep rate (in nanoseconds). Small number == faster chad. Defaults to 150000.

• -f: Chad ignores signals (thanks @pbui!)

• -b SIZE: Increase spacing of chad by SIZE

• -l: infinite looping

• -s: Chad stays in the center, striding in place.

• -m MESSAGE: Display message at bottom center of screen

• -R: Chad strolls with a rainbow effect

• -p: Chad flips when he hits the edge of the screen

Installation

Mac

Install from source:

make
make install

Homebrew:

brew install sambattalio/homebrew-formulae/chad_stride

BSD/Linux

Install from source:

make
make install

You can install to a custom PREFIX by doing the following:

make PREFIX=~/.local install

Uninstall:

make uninstall

AUR:

yay -S chad_stride

Snap:

snap install --edge chad-stride

Windows

Someone please tell me

Contributing

This basically a read-only repository. Everything happens inside the command, as intended by Terry.

chad_stride's Issues

More templates! HAI, HAI FORCES!

We need Guts from Berserk, because he's the definition of CHAD

Smaller sleeps

As brought up by SSH users, change sleeps to be smaller

Clean up code

Right now it looks like there is some spacing inconsistencies and some weird gross code at places. Should be easy to fix the formatting, and maybe run it through a linter or something.

better arg parse

fix this

Center Chad on Screen

We should probably vertically center Chad always, and horizontally center chad in STAY mode.

Bool'in?

We should probably add bool's instead of just integers

Add rainbow mode

Add in rainbow mode where it changes colors every tick

Moonwalk

Stride backwards

bump aur version

@ginglis13 can you bump aur w/ new release?

Add to other package managers!!

Right now we are on AUR and self host a home-brew repo. It'd be cool if someone could bring it on their distro as well!
PR the instructions to the README once you are done if you do!!

remove \r\n,

My terminal was borked when I added that....

Center Chad Vertically

Easy fix, should just have to use the variable row and then add row/2 - CHAD_HEIGHT/2 to every y value.

Chad Flip

Have Chad Flip and walk the other direction when he hits an edge of the screen.

Text does not seem to wrap properly

see above

Signal handling

Perhaps a flag which will make it ignore ctrl-c, etc.

Keep terminal background

Prolly use getenv or something. We just need to make sure that we keep background color the same before shell enthusiasts reee

Find a way to only have one chad array

I'm not sure if its possible, but instead of having a forwards and backwards chad, it'd be sick if we only had one and could maybe "Reverse" it with the ncurses library.

wasn't able to install new version via brew

Tried to brew install chad stride but the checksums didn't seem to match:

==> Installing chad_stride from sambattalio/formulae
==> Downloading https://github.com/sambattalio/chad_stride/archive/0.69420.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/gavininglis/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/1a19d4ba70b7a8ced43204fb21dc921c5a0e1c45d0307bd30cdb8773701b2aec--chad_stride-0.69420.tar.gz
Error: An exception occurred within a child process:
  ChecksumMismatchError: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: 3ed0b5e5e860d6d445884272b5b9668156efd2e699a82abcf478833b444bfd9c
  Actual: 7b8995f2cf75a4211eae61dcee2e2691b8a68cc2ed573e35c798672d33a30432
 Archive: /Users/gavininglis/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/1a19d4ba70b7a8ced43204fb21dc921c5a0e1c45d0307bd30cdb8773701b2aec--chad_stride-0.69420.tar.gz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

Make chad go faster

reduce chad's gif chonk

please 3.4mb is a huge gif

add color

chad stride looks drab. could use some color maybe?

Text handling

I think it would be cool to allow a message to be displayed, maybe at bottom of chad or screen?

Add a chadstride man page

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-creating-a-manpage/