Messing with Arch

Very nice.

Finally updated my FreeBSD system:

Changed to dwm



EDIT: Tweaked.

Arch Linux on my ultrabook.

I'm More Boring

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Continuing my spamming of this thread...

Hard at work I see....

^ Just call me "Jack Spratt" 'cos I like the lean

My most recent...

pretty cool setup.
is that xclock & osdsh...i forget the name... in the corner?
needless to say that it goes nicely with the background. totally retro.

It's xclock and oclock. With a font I converted from fntcol16.zip. LCD.F14

The background is from asciiview + some gimp editing. asciiview expects 4:3 input.
With scrot to capture the screen and some gimp post editing. You can use any old
wallpaper as the source. Or a crop of a video frame since ascii art doesn't need
much in terms of resolution from the source image. With an 8x10 bitmap font you
can get 240x108 characters from an xterm on a 1080p display.

i can only find aview - would that be the same?
anyhow, installing, going to play with it.

Package aview in debian also contains /usr/bin/asciiview

The options for aview are the options for asciiview for the most part.

$ asciiview -floyd_steinberg -extended -driver curses ascii_base_4to3_from_16to9.png

Where "-driver curses" directs it to use the font(s) of your current xterm in your current xterm.
With hotkeys "<" ">" and "," "." for brightness/contrast up and down adjustments.
And hotkeys ";" "'" for gamma up and down to adjust the ascii.
I convert an image from 16:9 to 4:3, convert to B&W, convert back to color, -20 brightness, +20 contrast
and that gets it into the general ballpark. The hotkeys can help fine tune it.
Just hit the spacebar to get the adjustment value off the top left before you screen cap.
And "q" to exit asciiview like most ancient unix like things.

it works. wow, even interactively.
one day i will have my own ascii-art...