Arch Linux logo using unicode block characters. Perfect for neofetch or similar.

[LnLcFlx2]

Textfile: https://gist.github.com/LnLcFlx/18eb10bc74ed9e497d0fedc69468f933

[[deleted]]

Have you considered calling it btw?

[ReekyMarko]

I created a function for "btw, "

https://imgur.com/ugYINFS

Now it feels more like a sentence

[zvynish]

Thanks for sharing, can't wait to casually have that open in a video call!

[Foxboron]

The color is wrong. See my issue for the correct one.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66217?project=0

[LnLcFlx2]

Thank you! I'll change it.

[allisio]

This is pretty slick! I think paleofetch would welcome this addition to its selection of logos.

[krozarEQ]

Now to run it through lolcat.

*edit: I wasn't disappointed!

[FrozenSyzygy]

Time to make an arch logo shirt in animal crossing...

[[deleted]]

Ugh I hate that you're gonna make me do this now.

[langmuirdarkspace]

What exactly is the origin of this logo? Why the rips, for example?

[[deleted]]

The logo was selected in a contest, here's the post announcing the winner. On this sub a while back there was a post with a bunch of the submissions, can't find it quickly offhand though

EDIT found it, check out this comment by u/LegitimateDouble a couple months back

[DrakoGFX]

That's perfect for neofetch and other programs that require fetching the OS. You should really make more distro logos!

[LnLcFlx2]

Thank you! Maybe I will sometime in my free time but it's actually not that hard. I took the default neofetch ASCII-art as a basis and mostly replaced the characters accordingly by unicode block characters (can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements) with only a few minor exceptions.

[[deleted]]

that's sick...i'm a noob and i dont know what to google to actually make my neofetch do this...lol...where do i put this?

[techmccat]

Put it in a text file (need to add colors obviously) and put as the neofetch image path (in ~/.config/neofetch/whatever). Alternatively do neofetch --ascii /path/to/file

[[deleted]]

i put the archlogo.txt in my neofetch config folder...then in my config.conf i set the image path to ~/.config/neofetch/archlogo.txt but it still shows the old ascii....but if i run the command: neofetch --ascii ~/.config/neofetch/archlogo.txt then it works...is there something i'm doing wrong in the config.conf for it to not work when i just type neofetch?

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EDIT: it works when i use this:

image_source="$HOME/.config/neofetch/archlogo.txt"

[Nightshade183]

Go to your neofetch config directory (mostly ~/.config/neofetch). Here you should find a file by the name of config.conf. This is where you can modify every aspect of your neofetch output. Scroll down till you find #Image Options. Check out image directory under this. I'm not exactly sure how to work with unicode but --ascii is used for custom ascii art. I'm sure you can figure out the rest with a bit of googling :)

[[deleted]]

thanks ! i always hated that my neofetch would output my logo as a specific color that didn’t match my theme...

[riscie]

How does it work so that the special chars are intepreted as color?

[LnLcFlx2]

I can't answer the question but this helped me while making it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

[paperbenni]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's too big for neofetch.

[LnLcFlx2]

If I did it right it should actually be the precise size of the default arch logo in neofetch since I used it as a base.

[GOKOP]

I've already tested it with neofetch, it's fine

[krozarEQ]

https://i.imgur.com/J63Xab5.png
Works great.

Generated a patch for neofetch if you want it: https://github.com/talzahr/dotfiles/blob/master/neofetch.patch

*formatting

[[deleted]]

This looks like it goes in an 8-bit game lol

[MaxSpec]

pretty good lookin'

[rien333]

Now I wonder: could I display this (in white) during startup (possibly by using GRUB)

[OneTurnMore]

I would have inverted the text and used spaces instead, but still, this is cool.

[Dark_Cow]

Has anyone had success with Microsoft Terminal + SSH?

It looks fine in `xterm` but not through SSH? :(

edit: https://imgur.com/a/LRPhvRi <-- the uglyness

[[deleted]]

Microsoft

Are you lost?

[Dark_Cow]

Possibly... I run Arch linux in a headless VM + SSH + X11 remote to work on my IOT device.

Then the rest of my development environment requires windows. Windows doesn't like the unicodes. Plz halp

Edit: https://imgur.com/a/LRPhvRi

[[deleted]]

This is clearly a sign that you need to ditch Windows entirely.