The latest articles on DEV Community by Antony Jr (@antonyjr). https://dev.to/antonyjr https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F634884%2F38df7b30-79f1-4957-9d7e-896f81a276e6.jpeg https://dev.to/antonyjr en Antony Jr Thu, 20 May 2021 20:58:50 +0000 https://dev.to/antonyjr/add-animation-over-your-favorite-terminal-in-gnu-linux-3g5e https://dev.to/antonyjr/add-animation-over-your-favorite-terminal-in-gnu-linux-3g5e <p>I've always wanted to animate my konsole with an animation over it's title bar. I searched everywhere but I can't find a program for that. That's why I've created spirit. It is a small program written in C++ which overlays a gif over your terminal. <em>This is only available currently for KDE Plasma, Gnome, XFCE, Mate and other major X11 based Desktop Environments for Gnu/Linux</em>.</p> <p>There are plans to support Windows and Mac in the future. </p> <h1> Quick Start </h1> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> $ wget "https://github.com/antony-jr/spirit/releases/download/v0.1.2/spirit" $ chmod +x spirit $ ./spirit init # That's it. </code></pre> </div> <p>Now you should have a animation over your terminal window. <strong>You should restart your terminal to take full effect.</strong></p> <h1> Terminate the Application </h1> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> $ ./spirit deinit </code></pre> </div> <p>The above command will stop spirit, you can just delete the binary if you don't need spirit in your system.</p> <h1> Animation Change on Error Command. </h1> <p>When you execute error command in the terminal the gif will change. This can be used as a visual indicator when compiling code.</p> <h1> Support </h1> <p>If you think this project is cool then please share the word and give a star at <strong><a href="https://github.com/antony-jr/spirit">https://github.com/antony-jr/spirit</a></strong></p> <p>Stars in a project gives insight on how many people want this project to continue.</p> linux cpp showdev opensource