Terminal Rewrite
· v2.1
About
Your watch doesn't just show the time. It types it.
Terminal Rewrite keeps it simple most of the time: just the time, big
and clean, no clutter. A few seconds before every minute changes, a
cursor quietly appears and blinks next to it — your cue something's
about to happen. Then, right on the tick, the cursor sweeps left
across the whole time, wiping it out one character at a time, and
sweeps back right, typing the new time back in behind it. Unhurried
on purpose: the whole rewrite takes about ten seconds, so you can
actually watch it happen instead of catching a flicker.
FEATURES
- Big, bold digits sized to fill the screen on every supported device,
readable at a glance
- A real block cursor drawn with shapes, not a bitmap, sized to match
the digits exactly — no oversized blob, no glyph
- Hidden until it's needed: the cursor only shows up for its
pre-minute blink and the rewrite itself, so the resting screen stays
just the time
- The rewrite plays live, in real time, every single minute you're
looking at the watch, deliberately paced so the erase-and-retype is
easy to follow; while resting, the display stays still to save
battery
- Four selectable color themes, changeable anytime from the Garmin
Connect app on your phone, no restart needed:
- Classic Green — the original phosphor terminal look
- Amber Terminal — warm CRT amber
- Cyberpunk Cyan — cool blue-toned neon
- Phosphor White — clean monochrome white
- Optional line under the time, off by default: show the date, today's
step count, both, or nothing at all — your call, set from the Garmin
Connect app
Built entirely from drawn text and shapes — no bitmap assets — to
stay light on memory and battery across every Garmin display.
For anyone who misses the command line every time they check the time.
If you like my work and want to support future updates and new artistic watchfaces, feel free to buy me a coffee! Your support means the world:
https://buymeacoffee.com/kruseco
What's new
2.1 Fixed time writing bug
2.0 Added optional date and datafield
1.9 Little rewrite
1.8: improved animation
1.7: Improved layout.
1.6: Support for way more devices!
1.5; Improved experience.