pride-matrix

A fork of cmatrix, with pride flags display mode

Background

A friend once made a shader that turned everything into a transgender flag. And I wondered if cmatrix could do the same.

The first attempt was a terrible hack that broke some of cmatrix's features. Eventually, I rewrote it into a proper fork that preserves compatibility with the original while adding support for pride flag colors schems.

Features

• All original cmatrix functionality preserved
• -F flag to render one of the built-in pride flags at startup
• Hot-switching between flags and colors at runtime via keyboard shortcuts
• Works in both X terminals (via ncurses init_color) and Linux TTY

Supported Pride-flags

Flag	-F argument	Key
Pride	pride	*
Trans	trans	(
Gay	gay	)
Lesbian	lesbian	_
Bi	bi	+
Pan	pan	-
Genderfluid	gf	=
asexual	ace	{
aromantic	aro	}
nonbinary	nb	[

r in pride-flag mode takes random colors from the flag palette

Build

git clone https://github.com/VixurHD/pridematrix
cd pridematrix
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

Run

./cmatrix -F pride

Screenshots

tty

./cmatrix -F pride -b -M "Happy Pride Month"	./cmatrix -F pride -b

./cmatrix -F pan

kitty (or other modern terminal)

./cmatrix -F pride -M "Happy Pride Month"	./cmatrix -F pride

./cmatrix -F gay