poketerm

Get greeted by custom message and/or

Pokemon ascii art and/or

A random one-liner when you switch your terminal on inside a dialog cloud

Example output

Installation

Alternate installation instructions -> https://youtu.be/JBUYfeah5c8

$ sudo pip install poketerm

NOTE: You need sudo permission for the package to work

Turn on poketerm

$poketerm -t 1

Poketerm sets POWERLEVEL9K_INSTANT_PROMPT=quiet when updating zsh configs and places it at the top of the file to avoid Powerlevel10k instant prompt warnings.

Turn off poketerm

$poketerm -t 0

NOTE: make sure to turn off poketerm before you uninstall it!

Poketerm help

usage: main.py [-h] [-p {bulbasaur,dugtrio,meowth,pikachu,noascii}] [-l]
[-o {0,1}] [-m MESSAGE] [-t {0,1}] [-d {0,1}] [-s]
[--support]
Display a Custom Message, a Pokemon ASCII Art and a Random Oneliner.
NOTE: Remember to turn off poketerm using -t 0 tag before you uninstall
it
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p {bulbasaur,dugtrio,meowth,pikachu,noascii}, --pokemon {bulbasaur,dugtrio,meowth,pikachu,noascii}
pokemon name for ASCII art. [noascii] for disabling
ASCII art
-l, --list list available pokemons
-o {0,1}, --one-liner {0,1}
turn one liner on [1] or off [0]
-m MESSAGE, --message MESSAGE
custom message to be displayed in the start. [nomessage] for
no message
-d {0,1}, --dialog {0,1}
turn dialog cloud on [1] or off [0]
-t {0,1}, --turn-on {0,1}
turn on poketerm [1], turn off [0]
-s, --show run poketerm with the active configuration
--support print sponsor/donation URL and exit

List of available pokemons

$ poketerm -l
Available Pokemons are
pikachu
|\_ _ \ \ _/_|
\ \_ __/ /
\ \________/ /
| |
/ |
| 0 0 |
| _ |
|() __ () |
\ (__) |
bulbasaur
____M___
( / \ \
\ ----/\ ( ) )
/ O O |---- _/
| _ \
\__U____/ _( |
|_/ |_/ |_/
dugtrio
_______
/ \
| 0 0 |
__|__ <> | / \ __|__
| | / \
| 0 0 | / 0 0 |
| <> |/ <> /
| | /
0oOwwwWwwOOoowwwwww
meowth
___ ___ | \_ ^ ^ _/ |
| \_ | | | | _/ __ |
| \| | /""\ | | / _/ | |
| __..|"||____||"|../. / |
__ \_ / | ||____|| | \/ _/ __ \ """--__: v \../ v :__--""" / ""--___/ ____ ____ \___--""
. (_||_) (_||_) .
________|_ __|_______
\__________ _________/
. __________ .
. \ __ / .
. \_/__\_/ .
. .
"..........."
noascii

Change Pokemon ASCII art

$ poketerm -p meowth

Change Custom Message

$ poketerm -m "Your Message Here"

Random one-liners and the dialog cloud are enabled by default. Disable them with the following commands or re-enable them as needed.

Turn off Random One-Liner

$ poketerm -o 0

Re-enable dialog cloud

Enabled by default; use this if you've disabled it.

$ poketerm -d 1

Turn off dialog cloud

$ poketerm -d 0

Turn off pokemon ascii art

$ poketerm -p noascii

Turn off Custom Message

$ poketerm -m nomessage

Support the Project

Poketerm is completely free and open source. If it brightens up your terminal and you blaze past 10,000 runs (there's a gentle reminder when you do!), please consider supporting its continued development.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to (http://silgro.com/fortunes.txt) for their one-liner database.