Last Updated on May 25, 2022
In Operation
Here’s a short video of Rusty Aquarium in action.
Floating around the aquarium are a crab (dubbed a happy rustacean), a clownfish (called Nemo), an angelfish, goldfish, seahorse, royal gramma (also known as the fairy basslet), butterflyfish, lionfish, turtle, a neontetra, yellow angelfish, and a zebrafish.
Of course, a crab is a crustacean not a fish.
The next video shows available the keyboard shortcuts (press H to bring them up).
As you can see, there aren’t many keyboard shortcuts. You can populate the aquarium with more/fewer fish. You can also list the different fish in this aquarium although it’s not complete.
There are actually lots of configuration options available which let you change many parameters. We can change the size, speed and bubbles of each fish/crab as well as its movement, collision aversion, speed, and much more. You’ll need to be willing to edit the text file assets/config.json.
Summary
Rusty Aquarium is a harmless but colorful graphical aquarium. For those that prefer ASCII aquarium, you may prefer ASCIIQuarium.
We’ve added Rusty Aquarium to our Linux Candy series, a compilation of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series. The table at the bottom of this page offers access to all the programs in this compilation.
Website: github.com/ollej/rusty-aquarium
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Developer: Olle Wreede
License: MIT License
Rusty Aquarium is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation / Summary
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Linux Candy | |
|---|---|
| ASCIIQuarium | Embrace marine life from the terminal with beautiful ASCII art |
| ASCII Art Converter | A small utility that converts images into ASCII art |
| BobRossQuotes | Collection of quotes from Bob Ross |
| Boxes | Command line ASCII boxes |
| Buoh | Online strips comics reader |
| cacafire | Color ASCII fire |
| catclock | xclock with an enhanced cat mode |
| cbonsai | Generate bonsai trees in the terminal |
| christmasfetch | Festive cheer on the desktop |
| chucknorris | Chuck Norris jokes in your terminal |
| cornyjokes | Corny jokes for the terminal |
| CMatrix | ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix” |
| ctree | A Christmas tree right on your terminal |
| eDEX-UI | Sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor |
| emoj | Simple tool that to find suitable emojis for pasting to your clipboard |
| Emote | Modern popup emoji picker |
| Evolvotron | Interactive generative art |
| Fantascene | Dynamic wallpaper changer |
| Fondo | Find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash |
| gti | Typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive |
| Hollywood | Fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble |
| linuxwave | Generate music from the entropy of Linux |
| lolcat | Rainbows and unicorns |
| No More Secrets | Recreates the data decryption effect from the Sneakers movie |
| nyancat | Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation |
| oneko | Animal chasing fun |
| pipes.sh | Animated pipes terminal screensaver |
| ponysay | cowsay reimplemention for ponies |
| projectM | Music visualizer originally based on Milkdrop |
| pscircle | A different take on the venerable ps command |
| pyjokes | One line jokes for programmers |
| Pywal | Generate color schemes on the fly |
| Relaxator | Relax to soothing sounds |
| Rusty Aquarium | Monitoring by visualization |
| Steam Locomotive | C program written in 295 lines. It's harmless fun |
| Ternimal | Animated lifeform in the terminal |
| terminal-parrot | Party parrot time |
| tetris | Tile-matching puzzle video game in your terminal |
| Variety | Wallpaper manager with many desktops and wallpaper sources |
| WallGen | Generate HQ poly wallpapers with a few arguments. |
| WallpaperDownloader | Download, change, and manage wallpapers |
| xcowsay | Displays a cow on your desktop with message |
| XDecorations | Add some festive cheer to your desktop |
| XScreenSaver | Framework and collection of screensavers |
There’s a diverse range of programs included in this series. Programs such as eDEX-UI and Variety are actually highly practical programs. ASCIIQuarium has soothing and relaxing qualities for your desktop. Other programs included in this series (such as lolcat, cacafire) are included purely for their decorative qualities. And then there’s some software that’s really light-hearted and designed just to bring a smile.
When trying to build on Debian I’m getting an error
error: linker ‘x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc’ not found
Any ideas how to fix?
I got the same error in Arch