📽 moter: the 'motion picture terminal'

bring your workstation to life!

What is this?

Moter is a motion picture terminal designed to enhance your workstation experience. For those that may spend many hours each day working in the terminal, staring at a black screen can be an isolating experience. I created motor for myself because I am one of those people and time lapse footage of outer space makes me happy.

Quickstart:

1. install: brew tap gwolf3/craft & brew cask install moter

2. setup: permissions (required or will not work properly)

3. run: moter start / moter stop

How should I use this?

Additional Commands

Get help: moter --help / moter <command> --help

Get version: moter --version

Customization

Set a new default background video: export MOTER_DEFAULT=<path/url> (this will play on start)

Experiment with new videos: moter start -v <path/url>

(Hint: please be sure to use absolute paths & include 'http/https' scheme for urls)

Run in desktop mode (disable terminal): moter start --desktop-only

Desktop mode can also be enabled by default: export MOTER_DESKTOP_ONLY=True

Formats

Motor uses VLC media player behind the scenes, so any supported format will work here too. You can even use a URL (youtube,etc). I also included a couple samples to get you started.

Permissions

Moter requires accessibily access of the following:

• Terminal (/Application/Terminal.app)
• iTerm (/Application/iTerm.app)
• Spectacle (/Applications/Spectacle.app)
• System Events (/System/Library/CoreServices/System\ Events.app)

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