DownFall

DownFall is a GNOME Shell extension that moves text items of your choice across the screen

https://github.com/torculus/DownFall/assets/20175597/7ddf2eed-fa5c-40ff-8a1d-f991793bfc89

DownFall is inspired by projects like Xsnow, gsnow, and Let it snow, but with support for arbitrary text or Unicode emojis

[!IMPORTANT] Enabling the extension puts a toggle switch in the GNOME QuickSettings menu. Click the toggle switch to start/stop the extension. Configuration is currently done through the extension's settings menu

Configuration

Text items can fall in eight directions on either the primary or current monitor:

• Down (↓)
• Up (↑)
• Right (→)
• Left (←)
• Up-right (↗)
• Up-left (↖)
• Down-right (↘)
• Down-left (↙)

Additional configuration options include color, font, size, fall speed/time, rotation, and drift

DownFall can be used to render multiple effects such as:

• Snow (Down-left ❄, ❅, ❆, *, .)
• Falling leaves (Down, Down-left, Left 🍁️, 🍂️)
• Digital rain from The Matrix® series (ﾊ,ﾐ,ﾋ,ｰ,ｳ,ｼ,ﾅ,ﾓ,ﾆ,ｻ,ﾜ,ﾂ,ｵ,ﾘ,ｱ,ﾎ,ﾃ,ﾏ,ｹ,ﾒ,ｴ,ｶ,ｷ,ﾑ,ﾕ,ﾗ,ｾ,ﾈ,ｽ,ﾀ,ﾇ,ﾍ)
• Fireworks (Up, Up-right, Up-left ., *, |)
• Rain (Down, .,💧️)
• Lava Lamp
• Meteorites / shooting stars (Down-right *, .)
• Japanese cherry blossoms (Down 🌸️)
• The opening crawls from Star Wars®
• Raining money (💰️,💵️,🪙️)
• And much more!