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Questions tagged [ascii-art]

Anything related to the graphic design technique using ASCII Standard and ASCII compliant character sets

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How to show ASCII art at the top of the terminal when it's opened?

As you can see on this screenshot of Mik's Guake he has a startup message of ASCII art when he opens it, and that's what I'd like to do, can someone help me?
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ASCII animations that are viewed in the command-line?

I like ASCII animations and want to view them through a terminal window. What famous Linux programs and commands are suitable here to display ASCII animations or view videos in a terminal screen?
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How do I install asciiquarium?

How do I install and run asciiquarium in Ubuntu? It seems kind of complicated, and I don't know how to compile source code.
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How can I print existing ASCII art from a Bash script?

I've just seen the following ASCII art. 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ …
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Terminal splash screen with Weather, Calendar, Time & Sysinfo?

I saw a Ubuntu Bash under Windows 10 terminal splash screen here: Windows Subsystem for Linux display Linux distribution? How can I change my ~/.bashrc to get a similar splash screen in regular Ubuntu that would look like this?:
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Ascii art animation demo program "bb": animation freezes when sound output starts

I installed bb and expected some entertaining ASCII animations with sound as you can see in this video. However, as soon as the music starts, the animation freezes while audio continues playing. If I run it without music, the animation plays as…
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Figlet/TOIlet fonts can't be loaded in the terminal

I was trying to use TOIlet, and it worked just fine in the beginning. Later I was trying to install some program to record my terminal, such as asciinema, and I encountered this error every time I try to run TOIlet. error: could not load font…
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output ascii art in a red color on terminal

so i wanted to make a MR ROBOT default banner, but i don't know how to make the output in a red Color in terminal, could somebody please help? also does anybody have the Original MR ROBOT ascii art? if so please drop it here. ps: using kali linux…
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Offline Ascii art editor

I use Ubuntu 16.04 and do not look for something like Graph_Easy which parses input, instead I look for some offline, free, WYSIWYG software that does tasks like what asciiflow does. For example these features are necessary: drawing multiple type…
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Panel applet ascii man

what is this little guy's name and how do I get him? This post was unhelpful because no one brings him up.
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VLC suddenly keeps popping up with JAVA logo and ASCii colour art

I'm using Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS. I've installed it just yesterday and updated it immediately. Today I start my system up and VLC keeps popping up out of nowhere. It shows in a small window the JAVA logo (coffee cup). I closed that and after I closed…
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