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Want to display a scrolling “The Matrix” like screen in Ubuntu desktop? You can do the job easily via a command line tool called cmatrix.

CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in “The Matrix” movie. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed.

1. To install cmatrix, simply open terminal from application launcher and run command:

2. Once installed, run cmatrix command to start the display:

You can press F11 to toggle on (off) terminal FULL-SCREEN mode. And press Ctrl+C (or q) to stop the process.

3. (Optional) There are some command line options. You can get them by running command:

Cmatrix font

Note to use the Linux mode -l option, you need to switch to TTY console (Ctrl+Alt+F3).

A small and fast Windows screensaver featuring the green 'Matrix' cipher-code seen in the popular films by the same name, directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski and starring Keanu Reeves, among others. Optionally, you can add messages to be decoded and displayed in real-time. The color, size and speed of the green 'rain' can also be customized.

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Installation instructions

Microsoft Windows

  1. Copy the 'matrix.scr' screensaver file from the ZIP archive you downloaded to your Windows folder, then right-click it and select 'Install'.

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  1. matrix.zip (Windows)

Cmatrix Windows

File report #1
File namematrix.zip
Target system Microsoft Windows
File size44.31 kB (45,370 bytes)
File typeZIP archive
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Detection ratio0/10 (0%) View report
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Total downloads94,716
Last downloaded28 minutes ago
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MD5eb197584ec15c51ad4e70eba731b9eb3
SHA13aee0563d70ad1598382d611a2b8156e6912ebde
SHA256a706d0328509d210bb3a04a33fd0c6aa0b87f94b2a0d65048f002143b307bac7

User reviews (53)

pretty cool. straightforward practical and free

by user1 on May 1, 2021

Simply awesome !

by Alok on April 16, 2021

Great until it actually fills three screens, then it comes to a crawl.

by Justin on April 13, 2021

good

by ag on April 11, 2021

Pretty brilliant. thanks for sharing.

by Neo on March 22, 2021

Meh.. I guess its ok.

by Somebody on March 15, 2021

Absolutely LOVE it :)

by Mozzie on February 27, 2021

It is soooooooooooo good I will download it.

by Fatehveer on February 23, 2021

i love this screen saver it is so cool because it's just like the movie that i have on dvd and it is so cool i love the way that it move's on my laptop computer thank you for showing me this screen saver i love it alot.

by lisa dreden on February 9, 2021

very good

by ProCluck91 on January 30, 2021

Has worked well and as advertised on all of my PC's (8) at the moment. I like being able to add your own message like but the words seem to come in random order. I wish you could have it appear in the order written. Simple to install if you take the time to read the directions and follow them.

by Chris on January 29, 2021

i wish you could have add options to change the colors. i love it coz it response so fast. thanks

by rafnex trent on January 23, 2021

I like it but hitting install brings up the screen saver option but I am unable to use it. It does not add the screensaver to the menu Please help

by Jeff on January 8, 2021

Cool screen saver!

by Mickey M. on December 30, 2020

The lines that fall on the matrix film have different speeds.
In this ScreenSaver the line speeds are exactly the same.
Apart from this flaw, ScreenSaver is good.

by João Vidigal on December 26, 2020

I like it

by zarko on December 24, 2020

its awesomeeeeee

by saint on December 22, 2020

I Really Like This Screen Saver It looks Really Cool & its Hard to Find a Good Screen Saver That Works Good With my monitor set up as i Run a 3+1 Monitors a 5760X1080 in nvidia surround for all my flight & Race Sims & a 1440p@144Hz For Every Thing Else all are 27' Panels & Like i said its a pain to find a good one that works & looks as good as this one and it Even let me add in the text The Matrix Has You or Follow The White Rabbit &again it looks really cool .but then again im a bit of a matrix fanboy.lol.! I Just Want to say a Big Thank You to Who Ever Worked on this i think ya did a Great Job & Thanks Again !

by BigChew on November 23, 2020

Excellent!

by Graham on October 9, 2020

This one is awesome always wanted it so thanks again

by Jon Sandman FTS on October 3, 2020

Perfect

by Clay on October 3, 2020

es muy bueno.. en comparación con otros que descargue. lo recomiendo.

by Luis Madriz on September 15, 2020

Cmatrix Japanese Font

Looks great - reminds me of the first movie. Simple and no nonsense. Runs great on Windows 10, HP I5 laptop bought a week ago. Thank you for providing this awesome software for free. Neo would have wanted it that way.

by Patrick on July 16, 2020

how do i get this to work for my laptop windows 10

by Mr. Cesar on July 11, 2020

Good

by Someone on June 21, 2020

works great on dual monitor windows 10. coded message option available in settings. colour can be changed from green to other colours too.

by rawr on May 27, 2020

i love matrix screen saver

by chris nartey on May 23, 2020

It's blurry and all the numbers, letters and symbols are backwards.

by Mike on May 19, 2020

Super!

by Neo on May 8, 2020

cool

by hoho on May 1, 2020

cool

by nik king on April 21, 2020

Absolutely Brilliant :D :D :D

by Paul Kersey on April 17, 2020

Great!

by Szilárd Varga on April 14, 2020

I think it`s awesome, i`ve installed in the past and it works great!!

by Gulherme on April 14, 2020

its so nice

by noor shraf on April 13, 2020

This screensaver is awesome, but then the speed setting that can set to slowest, it is still way too fast, and the font that can allow is too small...
any kind soul out there can improves it?

by Eric Ho on March 9, 2020

nice

by simon on March 2, 2020

Amazing, thank you.

by Emjay604 on February 5, 2020

Just like the real thing! I half expect agent Smith to knock on my bedroom door. Try the 3D Matrix too..

by Gregory Romero on February 2, 2020

AWESOME!! LUV IT!! Thnx for creating!
Really like the settings for speed and density! Gr8 customizations!

by PCSolid.com on January 24, 2020

Cmatrix On A Macbook Pro

great

by my name on January 6, 2020

Great screensaver! Works beautifully with my multiple monitor setup. Even sent it to my brother to install!

by Nick on January 5, 2020

YES

by SUNIL YADAV on December 25, 2019

Love it, one of the first things I install on a fresh machine

by Dan on December 16, 2019

Works great on Win 7 and three monitors

by Fenton Queue on November 27, 2019

Works great on my windows 10 64 bit w/ multiple screens.

by D BROWN on October 9, 2019

Cmatrix Font

Does not work with multiple screens :(

by Neo on September 5, 2019

I loved it, it's just beautiful and customizable.

by Dvini on May 11, 2019

It's pretty good

by Tretus on May 1, 2019

Ok this seems to work..;)

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by Jason on December 23, 2018

This Matrix screensaver is only 90k and runs efficiently. It has a good selection of settings. I copied the matrix.scr file to my C:WindowsSysWOW64 folder and it runs fine in Windows 10 64-bit. Multiple monitors are supported. This is a good choice.

by Ben on October 25, 2018

Cmatrix Cmd

Great screensaver. Tons of settings. Absolutely get this if you're looking for a Matrix screensaver.

by Anon on May 5, 2017

This is an awesome screensaver. It's free, has support for multiple monitors and has a wide range of settings to change, including text color and font. I recommend this screensaver for those looking for a good matrix screensaver that has multi monitor support. Thumbs up from me!

by Anonymous on March 25, 2017

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