How to get an animated background in E2*

[TheTechRobo]

@triantares

Frankly if you use git on the commandline, fully as it should be used, it'll harass about the availability of the aliases.

Yep, this is REALLY annoying. Would even be nice if it was a little more compact - but I can't even see the output of some commands due to this.

@triantares

As a second peeve: A good animation shouldn't have this "sort-of jolt" when it restarts it's a matter of creating a smooth loop ... it's important, that.

Agreed in full. If I knew how I would probably add a few more images to do this, but unfortunately I don't know how it was done originally and chrisripp hasn't responded to even the bug with the exception of the comment from right after the issue was opened.

@TheTechRobo

@triantares

Erm maybe you could set up a small gallery showing the named animations.

Sure, and maybe downloading individuals ones too (save bandwidth and disk space). Not a bad idea, will do when I have time.

I'll prolly do it tomorrow after school if I remember - remind me soon.

@TheTechRobo

Damn, I forgot about this. I'll have to fix all the screenshots. (Yes there's only one in this guide - will have to remedy that - but there are other guides with them. )

@triantares

Type the beginning of the the command (i.e "gf") and hit the TAB key for an "autocomplete". It saves from typos too.

Yes it does save from typos...tho if you type 2 letters and TAB the time it takes for the ... to appear and then the results to appear is way too long for me...normally i only do it with long commands, commands/files i cant remember, and commands with typos (it can fix minor typos).