CATAI-Linux
Virtual desktop pet cats for Linux -- pixel art cats that roam your screen and chat with you via AI (Claude or Ollama).
Install
# System dependencies (GTK4 + Cairo, not available via pip)
# Fedora:
sudo dnf install python3-gobject
# Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-4.0
pip install catai-linux
# Optional: adds ~100 MB of deps (faster-whisper) for voice chat
pip install catai-linux[voice]
Run
catai
Features
- Animated pixel-art cats roaming freely across your screen
- 6 cat personalities with AI chat (Claude API or Ollama)
- Voice chat 🎤 (optional) — hold Space or the mic button to talk to your cats. 100% local transcription via faster-whisper, GPU-accelerated if you have CUDA
- Cat encounters: when two cats cross paths, they stop and have a short AI-generated conversation
- Love encounters & kittens: occasional love → kitten births with fade-in + sparkles
- 22 easter eggs with magic phrases (
nyan,matrix,thanos,don't panic...) - Click-through: cats float above windows, clicks pass through
- Drag & drop, random meows, settings UI
- Multilingual (FR/EN/ES), autostart at login
- Lazy loading + disk cache for instant startup
Full documentation on GitHub.
1 maintainer
Metadata
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