Example invocations
The asciiville
command is intended to serve as the primary interface to
invoke commands. The asciiville
command utilizes several different terminal
emulators and can also be used to invoke any specified command. Some example
invocations of asciiville
follow.
Run asciiville
in interactive menu mode:
asciiville
Display a random slideshow of 25 ascii art images selected from all galleries in the default terminal window
asciiville -E 25
Display a random slideshow of 30 ascii art images selected from the Vintage art gallery with a delay of 10 seconds between images in a Tilix terminal window
asciiville -E 30 -V Vintage -D 10 -t
Run asciiville
in interactive mode with Ranger File Manager selected as command:
asciiville -i -y
Open the default client in fullscreen mode:
asciiville -F
Open the default client in fullscreen mode using the Tilix terminal emulator:
asciiville -F -t
Open the default client in the cool-retro-term terminal:
asciiville -r
Run ranger
file manager in cool-retro-term terminal emulator:
asciiville -r -y
Run mpcplus
music player in Tilix terminal emulator:
asciiville -M -t
Display a zoomable map of the world using mapscii
:
asciiville -c maps
Display the Phase of the Moon using wttr.in
:
asciiville -c moon
Display a random Pokemon:
asciiville -c pokemon
Run the ddgr
command line web search in the current terminal window:
asciiville -c search
Run the rainbowstream
command line Twitter client in the current terminal window:
asciiville -c twitter
Display a weather report for your IP address location using wttr.in
:
asciiville -c weather
Run the cmus
music player client in a gnome-terminal emulator window:
asciiville -c cmus -g
Run neomutt
mail client in fullscreen mode in a tilix terminal emulator window:
asciiville -f -t -z
Run lynx
web browser in a tmux session in an xfce4-terminal window:
asciiville -l -T -x
Creates an asciinema recording of btop
system monitor in a tmux session:
asciiville -R -T
Run asciisplash
displaying the Julia Set asciimatics animation with audio:
asciiville -S -j -a