Bongo Cat 4 Linux

A native “Bongo Cat” overlay for Linux inspired by the Steam Bongo Cat plugin, but built from the ground up for GTK4/Layer Shell environments. Bongo Cat 4 Linux listens for key-press events and shows an animated cat bonging on your screen.

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Features

• Lightweight GTK4 + Layer Shell UI Frameless, always-on-top overlay anchored to the bottom-right corner.
• Responsive Key Listening Watches /dev/input/event* devices and animates on key-down events.
• Hit Counter with Persistence Displays total hits and stores the count in a SQLite database (~/.config/bongo-cat/sqlite.db).
• Custom Assets Swap out idle.png, hit_left.png, and hit_right.png via the BONGO_ASSETS env var or ~/.config/bongo-cat/.

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Requirements

• Rust (1.85+)
• GTK4 and gtk4-layer-shell
• evdev (to read /dev/input/event*)
  • dont forget the input user group (sudo usermod -aG input "$USER")
• tokio & async-channel
• turso (database)

Build

cargo build --release
./target/release/bongo-cat