xhibit 9.8.2

A python script to exhibit your ascii arts and sytem specs

XHIBIT

Exhibit your ASCII art and system specs

INSTALLATION

Add Path

Example to add ~/.local/bin/ in the PATH Variable

POSIX based shell (bash,zsh,dash,....)

Change bashrc to your repective shell's rc

echo 'export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc

Fish shell

echo 'set PATH ~/.local/bin/ $PATH' >> $HOME/.config/fish/config.fish

Install Python Package

pip install xhibit

DEPENDENCIES

For Ascii art only

• python 3.5+

For Image display

• kitty terminal or ueberzug
• xorg-xdpyinfo
• xdotool
• xorg-xprop
• xorg-xwininfo

HOW TO USE

usage: xhibit [-h] [-cs CS] [-rcs RCS] [-ccs CCS] [-cn CN] [-rcn RCN] [-cpu CPU] [-gpu GPU] [-img IMG] [-imb IMB] [-crop CROP]

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -cs CS      Colorscheme to display.
  -rcs RCS    Randomize Colorschemes [t or f].
  -ccs CCS    Give custom colorschemem of 8 colors like this "#BF616A,#A3BE8C,#EBCB8B,#81A1C1,#B48EAD,#88C0D0,#E5E9F0,#B48EAD".
  -cn CN      Specify Character name [monalisa,egyptian,fairy,casper,dragon].
  -rcn RCN    Randomize Characters [t or f].
  -cpu CPU    Mention Cpu [Custom Cpu name].
  -gpu GPU    Mention Gpu [Custom Gpu name].
  -img IMG    Image path.
  -imb IMB    Mention Image backend [kitty or ueberzug].
  -crop CROP  Mention crop type [fit or fill].

ASCII characters

ASCII Characters available

• monalisa
• egyptian
• casper
• fairy
• dragon

Default colorschemes

• gruvbox
• dracula

Extra Colorscheme List present inside this program

Colorscheme list

Example commands

To Choose gruvbox Colorscheme and casper

xhibit -cs gruvbox -cn casper

To Choose dracula Colorscheme and fairy

xhibit -cs dracula -cn fairy

To randomize colorscheme and character

xhibit -rcs t -rcn t

Pick colorscheme

Check Colorscheme list

xhibit -cs "Eighties.dark" -cn dragon

To give custom user colors

You can give custom user colors to xhibit to display text. Must give all the 8 colors in hex format just as shown below. Nord Colorscheme colors are used below as example.

xhibit -ccs "#BF616A,#A3BE8C,#EBCB8B,#81A1C1,#B48EAD,#88C0D0,#E5E9F0,#B48EAD"

DOWNLOAD ALL THE THEMES AND SEE WITH FZF

git clone https://github.com/glowfi/xhibit-colorschemes
mv ~/xhibit-colorschemes/themes ~/.cache
rm -rf xhibit-colorschemes
ls ~/.cache/themes| fzf | xargs -I {} cat ~/.cache/themes/{} | xargs | tr " " "," | xargs -I {} xhibit -rcn t  -ccs "{}"

Try all colorscheme in 1 second interval

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glowfi/xhibit-colorschemes/main/run.sh -O ~/.cache/xhibitCol.sh
sh ~/.cache/xhibitCol.sh

Image support with ueberzug or kitty terminal.

xhibit -img image_location -imb "kitty"

                or

xhibit -img image_location -imb "ueberzug"

Image crop fit or fill

xhibit -img image_location -imb "kitty" -crop "fit"
xhibit -img image_location -imb "kitty" -crop "fill"

                or

xhibit -img image_location -imb "ueberzug" -crop "fit"
xhibit -img image_location -imb "ueberzug" -crop "fill"