Feature Request: (if possible) Enable Command Prompt Alongside brrtfetch Animation

[mateowoetam]

If I add the following command as an argument in Alacritty to launch with brrtfetch, the terminal gets stuck on that command, and when I quit the program, it closes Alacritty. I would like to have brrtfetch auto-run at the start but still be able to type commands while the animation is running. Is this possible?

Here’s the command I’m trying to use:

clear && brrtfetch -width 30 -height 30 -fps 10 /etc/nixos/ascii.gif; exec fish

My current workaround is:

clear && timeout 3 brrtfetch -width 30 -height 30 -fps 10 /etc/nixos/ascii.gif; exec fish

However, this requires waiting for a few seconds.

[ferrebarrat]

It is unfortunately not possible to run commands while the animation still plays. See the technical limitations section in the readme. You can compare it to doing an apt update or any long running command, while the command is running you cannot execute any new commands. It's the same for brrtfetch. I'm not very hopefull about finding a workaround for this at the moment.

You should be able to just add the "brrtfetch " to your .bashrc/.fishrc etc.

Not sure what you are trying to achieve with the "clear &&" and "exec fish".

[ferrebarrat]

Update: found some new inspiration, not a full idea yet but i have a new startion point to try and keep the animation running while being able to type commands. It already keeps running while i type but its very inconsistent and buggy for now. When i type it also gets displayed above the prompt and stuff. Also no command output

It's something surprisingly basic tbh.

So it might be possible but will take some time.

[mateowoetam]

I think I found another example of an animated fetcher, but the implementation might be quite different: https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/dionysus/tree/dionysus/dotfiles/neofetch

[ferrebarrat]

Seems like a simpler approach then mine. Might take some inspiration from it.

I've played around with getting the prompt to work while the animation plays. It looks extremely broken and is not usable at all but it does display partial command output.

To render the animation, the terminal expects full control over the lines. This makes it very hard to implement cleanly and still keep it portable.

[ferrebarrat]

Update. I think I have an elegant solution to allow you to run commands without stopping the animation. This solution should resolve the illegal flag issue on MacOS as well as the Hyfetch issue. No workaround will be needed for Hyfetch anymore.

Still need to make sure everything I need to do is possible but most of the hard parts are already done. I'll push once I'm happy with almost everything.

For the Zoxide issue, you are either going to love or hate the new bbrtfetch version. That's all I can say for now.

[ferrebarrat]

After many, many different ways and attempts i finally got something that seems to be working cleanly. It should be available in the dev branch altough the docs currently lack install instructions. The regular install instructions from the main/master branch should still work if you just switch to the dev branch after pulling the repo. It works with a config file instead of flags now in the dev branch so i guess we'll have to wait until i'm happy enough with the result so i can finalise the README. It should be possible to already test the dev branch but only with default values (no interactive shell underneath by default)

[HeyItsJono]

How's progress on this? :)