Fbterm

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A framebuffer terminal you can use in a tty. Neat!
Doesn't look maintained since 2015.

Documentation

home https://github.com/izmntuk/fbterm
man fbterm https://manpages.debian.org/buster/fbterm/fbterm.1.en.html

Locations

~/.fbtermrc config

Usage

Basics

/usr/bin/fbterm

Launch with Wallpaper

# ~/.bin/start-fbterm
#
# source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbterm/
#

# hide cursor
echo -ne "\e[?25l"

# display fullscreen-stretched image and quit viewer without screen refreshing
/usr/bin/fbv -ciuker "$WALLPAPER_FILE" << EOF
q
EOF

# use current screen state as a wallpaper
export FBTERM_BACKGROUND_IMAGE=1

# finally launch fbterm from the same shell
/usr/bin/fbterm