Debian Games toys packages

Generates anagrams for a phrase supplied by the user, the words used in the anagram are taken from a specified dictionary which should contain one word per line (default:/usr/share/dict/words). It understands accented characters and should work with any alphabetic language.

You think of an animal, and this package tries to guess it... when it's wrong, you teach it about your animal.

To be more flexible and help educational aspect this game does not contain an initial database. This also allows it to be used for non animals like guessing of tools or locations.

Bambam is a simple baby keyboard masher application that locks the keyboard and mouse and instead displays bright colors, pictures, and sounds.

Note: for safety it is recommended to run the game in a dedicated login session, rather than as an application in your regular session, especially when leaving your child unattended with the game. Look for session type BamBam in your display manager login screen.

This package contains a 'high quality audio-visual demonstration' of ASCII-art using AAlib, a portable ASCII-art graphics library. This demonstration can be displayed in a text- or X11-terminal.

Buckle emulates the sound of an old IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard while typing within an X session.

It runs as a background process and plays back the sound of each key pressed and released on the keyboard, just as if using an IBM Model-M. The sound of each key has carefully been sampled, and is played back while simulating the proper distance and direction for a realistic 3D sound palette of pure nostalgic bliss.

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree, and is entirely configurable via CLI options.

Screen saver for the terminal based in the movie "The Matrix". It works in terminals of all dimensions and have the following features:

• Support terminal resize.
• Screen saver mode: any key closes it.
• Selectable color.
• Change text scroll rate.

Cowsay (or cowthink) will turn text into happy ASCII cows, with speech (or thought) balloons. If you don't like cows, ASCII art is available to replace it with some other creatures (Tux, the BSD daemon, dragons, and a plethora of animals, from a turkey to an elephant in a snake).

DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for Markov chains of word probabilities and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter and reveal hidden meanings.

A collection of filters to do all sorts of strange things to text. This includes such favorites as B1FF and the Swedish Chef, and a wide range of others.

Subtly changes the color of the root window over time, so slowly that it won't be noticed. This is a good alternative to placing a picture in the root window.

The fortune program displays epigrams, known as fortune cookies, selected randomly from a selection of fortune files.

This package provides the fortune program itself and the programs used for generating the data files. The data files are contained in the fortunes-min and fortunes packages.

This package provides a set of hints and tips on using Debian, in a fortune database format. New Debian users (or administrators) may find its advice particularly sage or helpful, and even veteran Debianites might find some new tidbits.

GnomeKiSS is an implementation of French-KiSS for the GNOME desktop environment, using GNOME, GTK+ and the X Window System. French KiSS is an enhanced KiSS/GS for scriptable dolls, where KiSS is an abbreviation for Kisekae Set System.

Cherry KiSS and Enhanced Palette are supported, with full alpha transparency and FKiSS. If you want to open any lzh paperdoll files you have to install the package lha from non-free as well.

This utility will split your console into a multiple panes of genuine technobabble, perfectly suitable for any Hollywood geek melodrama. It is particularly suitable on any number of computer consoles in the background of any excellent schlock technothriller.

Kawari is a conversation generating script language. It is usually used to develop ghosts for Ukagaka platform.

Ukagaka, also known as Nanika, is a platform on which provides mascot characters for the user's desktop. These mascot characters can say something which is programmatically generated. Conversations can be generated by programs which follows the Shiori standard. And the conversation-generating script we called it "ghost" which means the spirit of the mascot character.

This package also install the kawari8 plug-in for ninix-aya in order to perform ghosts based on kawari8.

lolcat concatenates files like the UNIX cat program, but colors it for the lulz in a rainbow animation. Terminals with 256 colors and animations are supported.

MaCoPiX (Mascot Constructive Pilot for X) is a desktop mascot application for UNIX / X Window system. You can make window sitters, fixed desktop mascots, and, furthermore, desktop clock mascots, using MaCoPiX.

"Ukagaka", also known as "Nanika", is a platform on which provides mascot characters for the user's desktop. "Ninix" is an Ukagaka-compatible program, but stop developing for a long time. "Ninix-aya" is derived from "Ninix" and improved a lot.

A cat (neko) chases the cursor (now a mouse) around the screen while you work. Alternatively, a dog chases a bone. There are menu options for starting and stopping the program easily on cat and dog modes. Other variations and detailed configurations are available through command line options.

Display pipes in your terminal. pipes-sh allows you to watch pipes being drawn in your terminal. Multiple types for pipes are available.

PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.

Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time and eventually outputting its result.

Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the sentence built on the way.

Though PolyGen is quite a serious piece of software then, what else would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?

Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by which reproducing it through the variatio device. And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:)

For many years now, the purity test, (in various forms) has been widely available on the net. This package provides an automated way of taking the test.

Purity tests are an amusing way to see how much of a nerd or a hacker you are. More tests are available in the purity-off package.

Randtype is a small utility to output characters or lines at random intervals. There are a few command line options to refine the output. With it you can output files to the screen, and if you configured it well, it will look like someone is actually typing - with optional typos even.

Rotix allows you to generate rotational obfuscations, like the world-famous ROT-13. Note that this is not an encryption pack.

Install Rotix if you want to generate ROT-13 variants.

rss-glx is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh (http://www.reallyslick.com/). Also included are several other OpenGL screensavers ported from other platforms.

The screensavers can either be run as stand-alone applications or get integrated into XScreenSaver's list of active screensavers. More information about using these with xscreensaver can be found in /usr/share/doc/rss-glx.

Screensavers included in this package are: Biof, Busy Spheres, Colorfire, Cyclone, Drempels, Euphoria, Feedback, Fieldlines, Flocks, Flux, Helios, Hufo's Smoke, Hufo's Tunnel, Hyperspace, Lattice, Lorenz Attractor, MatrixView, Plasma, Pixel City, Skyrocket, Solarwinds, SpirographX, and Sundancer2.

Sl is a program that can display animations aimed to correct you if you type 'sl' by mistake. SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

TDFSB reads directory information and displays it as a 3D world. Changing into another directory is possible by simply walking into the assigned sphere. It also reads images and text files, and displays their contents.

Like fortune(6), tfortune is a Unix command line utility which prints a random epigram. Epigrams are stored as plain text files, but they must be annotated with tags to make full use of the features which tfortune offers over other implementations.

Tfortune has a built-in matching language for epigrams. User-supplied tag expressions define subsets of admissible epigrams. If a tag expression is given, epigrams are picked from the admissible subset only.

This provides a small set of tagged epigrams for tfortune. These are only used if no personal epigrams are found in the per-user epigram directory.

 All epigrams are in English language and are considered
 non-offensive. They were mostly selected from public mailing lists.

Vigor is a perpetration of the Microsoft Word "Office Assistant" paperclip, based on nvi. It was inspired by Pitr of the "User Friendly" comic strip (http://www.userfriendly.org/).

Some people have speculated that Vigor was created under the influence of the evil Crud Puppy. The maintainer of this Debian package would like to stress his firm belief that these foul rumours are entirely without foundation.

This utility will split your console into a multiple panes of news and statistics, like any good computer screen on Wall Street.

Wordplay generates anagrams of words. For example, "Debian" = "Bendai" (with an Italian Dictionary) or "Debani" (with an Catalan Dictionary).

Does not support UTF-8, empty spaces, accents and non-Latin characters.

XaoS allows you to zoom and pan around a fractal in real time. It can display the animated fractals in graphical or even plain text mode.

It displays the Mandelbrot set or many other fractals and allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Mandelbrot and Julia fractal types is provided.

Other features include autopilot mode, palette changing, image saving, fractal inversion, filters, and a built in fractal tutorial.

A GTK+ version of the classic cowsay Perl script. It displays a cute pop-up cow on your desktop with a speech bubble and some customizable text. There's also a dream mode where the cow can display images. It comes with a fortune(6) wrapper script, xcowfortune, which you can cron to deliver periodic fortune cookies via the cow.

xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata setting the background of your X Window System under water. Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving water waves. You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water.

XFireworks makes fireworks in the root window on X. This is imitation of Japanese "Hanabi Taikai". It is very popular event in Japanese summer and performed on some rivers.

Enjoy an animated aquarium background with a variety of tropical fish swimming in it on your screen.

Generates random fractal mountains and displays them in a window (even in the X root window).

While the program is running the fractal is continuously extended on the right and the image is scrolled from right to left to expose the newly generated area.

Ever wanted cute little penguins walking along the tops of your windows? Ever wanted to send an army of cute little penguins to invade the screen of someone else on your network? Probably not, but why not try this program out anyway, it's cool!

xphoon sets the X root window to a picture of the moon in its current phase, including the partial lighting of the dark side by reflected earthlight. Picture is a monochrome dithered bitmap which is calculated via mathematical formulae. It keeps running on background updating the picture accordingly as time goes by.

Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file. All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, and different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, hemisphere, Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, Peters, polyconic, and rectangular.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. Some maps are included in the xplanet-images package.

Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.

Xsnow is a X Window application that will snow on the desktop background. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling. Xsnow runs in GNOME, KDE, FVWM and desktops that are derived from those.

Normally, xteddy just sits around doing nothing. After all, that's what teddy bears are for. Look at him, talk to him, place heavy windows on top of him, zap him around until he becomes dizzy, do what you like; he will always be your true (albeit virtual) friend. Now you can load other pixmaps than the nice teddy, too.

This displays a quotation in a window. Fortunate is a Cocoa/Objective-C graphical front-end to the command-line BSD fortune which, since the dawn of time, has been providing countless seconds of fun each time a user logs in.