Starry, starry night

[DarkLordoftheMonkeys]

Thanks to Dargueta for the tutorial on generating ANSI color text. I'm using the output of this shell program as my desktop wallpaper:

#!/bin/bash
# This script creates a neat looking space background for the terminal.

for((i=0; i < 1000; i++))
do
	printf "\033[40m";
	declare -i spaces=$RANDOM/1024;
	for((j=0; j < $spaces; j++))
	do
		printf " ";
	done
	colors=([0]="\033[31m" [1]="\033[32m" [2]="\033[33m" [3]="\033[34m" [4]="\033[35m" [5]="\033[36m" [6]="\033[37m");
	declare -i color=$RANDOM%7;
	declare -i plusordot=$RANDOM%4;
	if [ $plusordot -ne 0 ]
	then
		printf "${colors[$color]}.\033[0m";
	else
		printf "${colors[$color]}+\033[0m";
	fi
done
echo "";
unset i j spaces colors color plusordot;

I'm probably going to modify this script to make the bash prompt appear at the top of the terminal window, so you're typing commands over the background.

[asafe]

Nice, just need to have the prompt above the background. Maybe you could hack $PS1?