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Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun

May 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!

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Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal

August 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool

August 19, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

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