v1.9.1 brings joy to sysadmins and power users by enabling the use of arttime right after booting OS for the first time (i.e. in a very limited terminal enviornment)

arttime --nolearn -a mouth_red -b mouth_green
# OR
arttime --nolearn -a mouth_bred -b mouth_bgreen

Note: arttime is a clock, timer, time manager, ASCII/ANSI text-art and ~animation viewer that comes with a library of curated high-quality text-art. For more samples check the screenshots on main page: screenshots

Highlights:

• This is a minor but important release. This release fixes a lot of minor rough edges that prevented arttime to be used in limited terminal environments right after doing a fresh Linux/BSD Unix OS installation. With all the fixes in, a user can start using arttime right after their OS is up for the first time (and they have installed zsh), straight from the prompt after GRUB-based Desktop Environment-less limited terminal interface.

Updates:

• Arttime now supports both terminfo and termcap systems. Note: Errors are still reported using terminfo names, that will change in future.
• Added more sample ascii art, this time with all 16 color combinations.

Fixes:

• Default arttime launch should use only ASCII characters, fixes --style 0 (default)
• Removed dependence on more advanced version of tput
• Make arttime work well enough on terminals that pose to not have wrapping capability
• artprint now resets styles before exiting
• Make arttime exit cleanly on terminals that do not have alternate screen capability
• Disable bold attribute for art that was not being uniformly applied after a recent change in the print functionality (might provide a command-line option for finer control in future)

Installation:

• Check https://github.com/poetaman/arttime#installation for three methods of installation. Do git pull and run ./install.sh again if you installed using method 2) or just copy-paste and run the simple installer again (it automatically pulls main branch and merges) if you used install method 1). https://github.com/poetaman/arttime#installation
• Or download one of the source code archive assets attached here and put in the directory of your choice, and run arttime from there.

Want to Volunteer?

• Add dependency-installation instructions for your distribution of Linux, flavor of Unix, or another OS. Check the Dependencies section of arttime wiki
• Add package manager for arttime for your distribution of Linux, flavor of Unix, or another OS. Dependencies are simple, so this should be a very easy task. Check the Dependencies section of arttime wiki.

Special mentions:

• @grahamperrin for testing support and feedback on FreeBSD.
• @ehaupt for adding the official FreeBSD port for arttime.

Best, @poetaman