Quickstart
Install the latest Arch, Debian, macOS, RPM, or compressed tar archive format installation package from the Asciiville Releases page
Run the
ascinit
commandMust be done as a normal user with
sudo
privilegeRun
ascinit -c
to perform a console initialization (no graphical utilities)
Initialize the command line Twitter client by invoking the
rainbowstream
command and authorizing the app to access your Twitter accountExecute the
asciiville
command in interactive menu mode by runningasciiville -i
See the online asciiville man page or
man asciiville
for different ways to invoke theasciiville
command
The asciiville
command can simply take ascii art filenames as arguments
and it will display them. The full filename isn’t even necessary, it will
try to figure out what you mean. For example, to test whether your Asciiville
installation is working, try the command:
asciiville Waterfalls/wallhaven-r768vq
This should display a waterfall rendered with characters as ascii art.