Comment by x187463

Comment by x187463 11 hours ago

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Asciinema is awesome. I use it to capture all of the demos for TerminalTextEffects. Their Asciinema GIF Generator tool (AGG) produces high quality terminal recording GIFs by processing the asciicast file. This is the best solution I've found for producing short terminal recordings that can be shared in a README/docs as seen in the TerminalTextEffects repo/docs.

Using the raw file output and/or termsvg type solutions do not work for TTE due to the huge amount of data being written to stdout.

https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

echelon 11 hours ago

I just wanted to say this is absolutely gorgeous. I don't know if I have a use for this, but I love it and please keep doing this. It's mesmerizing and beautiful.

TTE reminds me of Compiz window manager from eons ago, the thing that got me to ditch Windows for Linux, except for the terminal.

Is there a way you can add something like TTE to tmux or vim as a screen saver or something that would trigger occasionally but not all the time? Do you pipe it? Make aliases?

How do you typically use it? What was your intent when you first wrote it, and what do you use it for now?

Keep it up!

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  • aranelsurion 9 hours ago

    Compiz. Beryl. Compiz Fusion. Unlocks some fun memories.

    Also this video has some 6 million views now: https://youtu.be/xC5uEe5OzNQ?si=GOvwOTHV-RVQnxWv . I remember watching it and being awed by the cube effect.

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    • echelon 2 hours ago

      That's certainly a trip down memory lane...

      Coming from Windows XP, Compiz Fusion was nothing short of revolutionary. If Linux had a game ecosystem back then, it would have beaten the pants off of Windows. It was so much cooler than Windows.

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      • MangoToupe 2 hours ago

        It was also buggy as hell, but it was fun watching windows jiggle like jello.

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jcul 10 hours ago

t-rec is another great tool, which can record any window and produce a video or a gif.

Not quite the same thing, but sometimes I find it easier if I just want to share a gif of a terminal.

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nixosbestos 6 hours ago

15MB GIF file. I can't man, I just can't. I literally can not.

Can't seek. Can't select text. And I get to use 15x the bandwidth I should have to load it.

Please. Stop. Please. It's gross to take beautifully compressable, seekable, accessible text, shove it into the absolute worst format possible for video, and then call that good.

If you must insist, please at least link to the raw asciinema, or their web viewer. So that I can load it in a fraction of the time, pause it, seek forward and backward, and copy-paste text. I know, I know, who would want any of that. Much better a GIF that loops so fast it's basically meaningless to anyone but the creator.

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