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[WIP] Add feature icholy-ttygif
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icholy-ttygif devcontainer feature
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Adds a new community devcontainer feature that installs
ttygif— a tool that convertsttyrecterminal recordings into animated GIFs.Changes
src/icholy-ttygif/devcontainer-feature.json— feature manifest; exposes aversionoption (default:latest)src/icholy-ttygif/install.sh— builds from the GitHub release source tarball (archive/refs/tags/{tag}.tar.gz) usingmake install PREFIX=/usr/local; installs apt dependenciesgcc,make,imagemagick,ttyrec,x11-apps; locates the extracted directory viafindto handle tags with or without avprefixsrc/icholy-ttygif/NOTES.md— documents project link, install method, and the X11 runtime requirement (xwd/WINDOWID)test/icholy-ttygif/test.sh— verifiesttygif --versionemits a semver string; usesWINDOWID=1dummy value to bypass the mandatory X11 window-id check that fires before argument parsingREADME.md— adds feature row in alphabetical order betweenhelix-editor.comandjj-vcs.devNotes
ttygifhas no pre-compiled binary releases — only a source tarball. The only upstream release is1.4.0(2016);latestresolves to it via the releases API. At runtime,ttygifrequires a live X server (WINDOWIDenv var); it can be installed in headless containers but needs Xvfb or similar to actually generate GIFs.Original prompt
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