Pokemon-Terminal

Sample Set #1	Sample Set #2

Features

• 493 unique Pokemon
• Select Pokemon by name or by index number
• Ability to change the Desktop Wallpaper & the Terminal background
• Internal search system for finding Pokemon
• Supports iTerm2, Terminology & Tilix

How to Install

Type python3 -V in your terminal to verify that you have Python 3.6 or later installed.

npm

You can install in any (npm-supported) OS using npm install --global pokemon-terminal. That's it, you're done!

If you do not use npm, or prefer a manual install, continue reading.

Mac OS

1. Make sure you have Python 3.6 or higher.
2. Make sure you have iTerm2.
3. Copy and paste the following for the installation:

   # Pokemon Installation
   git clone https://github.com/LazoCoder/Pokemon-Terminal $HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal
   echo PATH="$HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal:${PATH}" >> ~/.bash_profile
   source ~/.bash_profile
   

4. If you are using zsh, do the following instead:

   # Pokemon Installation
   git clone https://github.com/LazoCoder/Pokemon-Terminal $HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal
   echo PATH="$HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal:$"PATH"" >> ~/.zshrc
   source ~/.zshrc
   

Linux

1. Make sure you have Python 3.5+ installed, check the instructions of your distribution.
2. Make sure you have Terminology or Tilix, again check the package manager of your distribution.
3. Install
   • If you are a Arch Linux User, you can install it from the AUR package pokemon-terminal-git.
   • Otherwise, copy and paste the following bash script into a terminal for the installation:

   # Pokemon Installation
   git clone https://github.com/LazoCoder/Pokemon-Terminal $HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal
   echo PATH="$HOME/.Pokemon-Terminal:$"PATH"" >> ~/.bash_profile
   source ~/.bash_profile
   

Instructions

Usage

usage: pokemon [-h] [-n NAME] [-r {kanto,johto,hoenn,sinnoh}] [-l [0.xx]]
               [-d [0.xx]]
               [-t {normal,fire,fighting,water,flying,grass,poison,electric,
                    ground,psychic,rock,ice,bug,dragon,ghost,dark,steel,fairy}]
               [-ne] [-e] [-w] [-v] [-dr] [-c] [id]

Set a pokemon to the current terminal background or wallpaper

positional arguments:
  id                    Specify the desired pokemon ID

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --clear           Clears the current pokemon from terminal background
                        and quits.

Filters:
  Arguments used to filter the list of pokemons with various conditions

  -n/--name NAME        Filter by pokemon which name contains NAME
  -r/--region {kanto,johto,hoenn,sinnoh}
                        Filter the pokemons by region
  -l/--light [0.xx]     Filter out the pokemons darker then 0.xx
  -d/--dark [0.xx]
                        Filter out the pokemons lighter then 0.xx
  -t/--type {normal,fire,fighting,water,flying,grass,poison,electric,ground,
             psychic,rock,ice,bug,dragon,ghost,dark,steel,fairy}
                        Filter the pokemons by type.
  -ne/--no-extras       Excludes extra pokemons
  -e/--extras           Excludes all non-extra pokemons

Misc:
  -w, --wallpaper       Changes the desktop wallpapper instead of the terminal
                        background
  -v, --verbose         Enables verbose output
  -dr, --dry-run        Implies -v and doesn't actually changes the wallpapper
                        or background after the pokemon has been chosen

Not setting any filters will get a completly random pokemon

Example:

Suggestions

I highly suggest making the font colors black and the terminal window transparent. Some of the images have both light and dark colours and so it can be difficult to see the text sometimes. Transparency resolves this issue. Since Pokemon Terminal only changes the background, the transparency must be done manually:

1. Navigate to iTerm2 > Preferences > Profiles > Window
2. Set the transparency to about half way.
3. Hit the "blur" checkbox.
4. Set the blur to maximum.
5. Optionally you can set the blending to maximum to adjust the colors to look like the samples provided.

The result should look like this:

Adding Custom Images

The folder Images/Extra is for adding custom images. You can manually add backgrounds to this folder and they will be visible to the program. Only JPG format is supported. To see a list of all the custom backgrounds type:

$ pokemon -e -dr

Alternatively, you can delete images from this folder and it will not break the program. These are some custom backgrounds:

Solutions for Common Issues

• If you experience a line at the top of the terminal after changing the Pokemon, you can remove it by typing in the clear command or opening a new terminal.

• If you are using Tilix and the terminal background is not changing, try adjusting the transparency in your profile settings.

• If you are experiencing issues with Terminology, make sure that you have installed the latest version:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:niko2040/e19
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt install terminology
  

• If you get the error: 39:46: syntax error: Expected end of line but found identifier. (-2741). Locate the file ITerm.py in adapter/implementations and on line 7, change "iTerm" to "iTerm2". If you still experience the error, try changing it to "iTerm 2".

Saving

Mac OS

I have not yet implemented a way to save the terminal background to a profile. To save a background you will need to setup a startup command in the profile.

1. Navigate to iTerm2 > Preferences > General
2. Locate the field where it says Send text at start under Command.
3. In that field type "pokemon -n [pokemon name]". You can see an example in the image down below.
   • Alternatively you can also type "pokemon" for a random theme each time you open up a new terminal.
4. You can leave out "; clear" if you don't care about the line showing up at the top of the terminal.

Linux

Terminology already saves it automatically, just tick and remove the "temporary" tick in the settings just in case, after setting your desired pokemon (see image below).

However to setup a random pokemon each session do:

1. Open ~/.bashrc in your favorite text editor.
2. Make sure your ~/.bashrc file has a guard check for interactive terminals, so you don't try to set the background every possible time bash runs. Place this before any command that may produce any output (again, if you don't have it already, and variable setting, e.g exports don't produce output):

if [[ $- != *i* ]]; then #You might have this already
    return
fi

3. You may also want to check if terminology is actually running before trying to set the background, so that leads us to

if [[ "$TERMINOLOGY" -eq "1" ]]; then
    pokemon
fi

Notes & Credits

• Nearly all of the Pokemon backgrounds were created by Teej.
• Originally the images were about 100mb in total but ImageOptim was used to compress them down to about 17mb.
• Since the images are compressed, some of them may have some mild (but negligible) compression artifacts.
• Thanks to @DrMartinLutherXing for some bug fixes.
• Thanks to @joanbono for the easy installation script in the readme.
• Thanks to @BnMcG for the region specific randomize function.
• Thanks to @samosaara for the Linux (GNOME and Terminology) port.
• Thanks to @charlesmilette for maintaining the AUR package.
• Thanks to @therealklanni for adding the project to npm.
• Thanks to @MattMattV for adding Tilix support.
• Thanks to @connordinho for enhancing the slideshow functionality.
• Thanks to @cclauss for simplifying the code in the database class and the main class.
• Thanks to @Fiskie for implementing the adapter design pattern, piping commands and more.
• Thanks to @marcobiedermann for better image compression.
• Thanks to @kamil157 and @dosman711 for the randomized slideshow function.