Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

Re:Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy wh... by andra_nl on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:40AM (#43377662)

I run i3wm (poorly :P). Does anyone know whether it would it be possible to trick i3lock (or something similar) into showing the output of this "tool" instead of a static image?

Would be a fun look, with the added bonus of some colleagues potentially being tricked into thinking they have an opportunity to mess with my machine. :D

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Re:Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy wh... by meribold on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:43AM (#43378257)

There are screen-locking programs that don't hide what's on the screen (for example `alock` and `xtrlock`). So you can use one of those in a script that also launches this tool.

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