Plugin ideas

[tombh]

Share your ideas for Tattoy plugins. Whether they'd be internal or third-party.

[tombh]

A plugin that "projects" whatever character is at a certain coordinate onto the whole background, maybe with a cool shader effect too. This would allow me to show the current emoji I'm hovering over in my emoji selector.

[tombh]

A plugin that super highlights the whole line of whichever line the cursor is currently on. This would give a nice effect to my little application picker popup.

[tombh]

A plugin that masks the layer below. So for example you could play Bad Apple using only the live output of htop.

[tombh]

Running a whole other TTY underneath the main TTY. From YemenFork.

Maybe even a mpv --ascii video.mp4 | tattoy --layer -1. From YourInty.

[tombh]

Keybindings to select and move a layer up and down through the compositor. Particularly useful if one of the layers is another interactable TTY. From YemenFork.