#1 2026-03-13 10:07:49

walter

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From: Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium

Registered: 2023-07-30

Posts: 33

Little Spielerei: oneko cat playing on your desktop

It is something stupid. But I like it. And gives me a smile.

There is the program oneko you can install that gives you a tiny cat or dog that runs around on your screen.  I have the code below in my startup script.
User settings => BunsenLabs sesion => Edit autostart

After a while using the computer after boot a cat shows up. And some time later an other cat.  And very rarely, very briefly, one dog. - And then they are gone. And later they come back.  There is a little bit of difference how they behave and look.

You can have multiple cats at the same time. But I think it is best to have not to many at the same time.  Can otherwise become annoying.

## Oneko cat
sleep 30m ; oneko -tofocus -name ulf -bg gray -time 175000 -speed 8 -idle 400 &
sleep 75m ; oneko -bg brown -toname ulf &
sleep 85m ; oneko -dog -bg gray -toname ulf &  
sleep 90m ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 200m ; oneko -tofocus -name spicy -bg black -time 200000 -speed 14 -idle 120  &
sleep 350m ; oneko -tora -toname spicy &  
sleep 380m ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 7h ; oneko -tofocus -name ulf -bg gray -time 175000 -speed 8 -idle 4 &
sleep 8h ; oneko -toname ulf -bg brown &
sleep 500m ; oneko -tora -bg gray -toname ulf &
sleep 9h ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 1d ; oneko -tofocus -name spicy -bg black -time 200000 -speed 14 -idle 12  &
sleep 2d ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 3d ; oneko -tofocus -bg gray -name ulf -time 175000 -speed 8 -idle 4 &
sleep 4d ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 5d ; oneko -tora -bg brown -tofocus &  
sleep 6d ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

sleep 7d ; oneko -tofocus -name ulf -bg gray -time 175000 -speed 8 -idle 4 &
sleep 10d ; ps aux | grep oneko | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill &

Last edited by walter (2026-03-13 11:08:00)

Jimbo_G

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From: France

Registered: 2017-05-12

Posts: 346

Re: Little Spielerei: oneko cat playing on your desktop

I remember something like this in Windows 95 (I think), I'm guessing it wasn't actually part of Windows though. I can't say that it's something I've missed to be honest!