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Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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This is great. Small, trivial suggestion: the gif that loops in the README should pause on the screen w/ the output for a few seconds longer - it disappears (restarts) too quickly to take in all of the output.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs.

I'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs.

I'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

Hm, very interesting! This only converts asciinema recordings, though, right? It doesn't automatically record anything?

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

Hm, very interesting! This only converts asciinema recordings, though, right? It doesn't automatically record anything?

If you have asciinema already installed then you can invoke it through svg-term like this!

  svg-term --command 'cowsay hey there'
But that has the aforementioned issues about not pausing enough, so I usually just record with asciinema first and then invoke svg-term.

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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post #13

This is great. Small, trivial suggestion: the gif that loops in the README should pause on the screen w/ the output for a few seconds longer - it disappears (restarts) too quickly to take in all of the output.

Also the pause button seems to take the GIF back to its first frame, then resume from where I paused... either that or I need a good sleep.

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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Sounds like something I could use, but installing a binary via `curl` doesn't sit right with me. Next problem you have is "explain how this thing was installed on my system" followed "is it up to date (including security patches).

I hope they have deb package or snap some day.

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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post #26

Sounds like something I could use, but installing a binary via `curl` doesn't sit right with me. Next problem you have is "explain how this thing was installed on my system" followed "is it up to date (including security patches). I hope they have deb package or snap some day.

new utility command coming soon! wdtci - "what does this curl install?"

Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

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post #26

Sounds like something I could use, but installing a binary via `curl` doesn't sit right with me. Next problem you have is "explain how this thing was installed on my system" followed "is it up to date (including security patches). I hope they have deb package or snap some day.

`systemctl status $pid` will get you a lot
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