Animation loop and cursor position

[mben91]

Hello, I appreciate what you did with the script.
I just wanna know if it's possible to mention the animation loop in the arguments, for example I want the animation to play one time then stop to allow writing commands.
Also now Ctrl + C drops the cursor at the bottom of the teminal, I don't know if it's possible to show to cursor just after the anifetch output. Thank you again for the tool very appreciated.

[mben91]

Hello again,
I made some changes to include the above requests, would you be okey with opening a pull request so you can review the changes?

• Added a loop argument to play the animation X times.
• When the animation ends the cursor gets placed at the end of the content.
• TODO: change also the Ctrl + C behavior to do the same

[fuma-afk]

i'm just going to comment here because my request seems related
i wish there was a way to have the behaviour that fastfetch has.
aka execute and immediatly make the terminal available to run commands and stuff without having to press ctrl+c, while leaving the animation playing.

I have fastfetch running each time i open a terminal and it immediatly allows me to work like so:

it would be cool to have anifetch do the same, while keeping the animation running back there. Although i'm not even sure it's something that can be done. in that case please ignore my request

[mben91]

Short answer, you can't have both the animation running and the cursor to type commands.

The only possible way is to run the animation once and then stop to allow running commands or use the Ctrl + C thing.

To explain this further the script basically prints characters for each row and column respectively by setting the cursor position for each character, this cursor is the same used to allow writing commands, except for the script the blinking is hidden and after the Ctrl+C it shows the cursor after the text and is made visible again with also toggling typing again.

Hope this clears things out.

I already made a PR to add the ability to play the animation with a loop as an argument, so you can have the animation play once for example and then stop to allow typing, waiting for a confirmation.

[fuma-afk]

Yea figured as much!
Ty anyway!