* Ask the terminal whether the layout scrolled
Whether the logo is on the rows the frames address was decided by arithmetic: count the lines of a second fastfetch run, and animate if the window has one more. That holds only while the second run and the real one agree, and they need not — a module that appears between them, a wrap the measurement never sees, anything that makes the painted layout a row taller than the counted one. The screen then scrolls, the logo sits a row above where these frames draw it, and the animation paints a copy of the logo one row below the real one.
fastfetch has just painted when the question is asked, so the terminal already knows the answer: an unscrolled layout leaves the cursor one row past its last line. Ask for it, and keep the arithmetic for a terminal that will not say.
The reply has to be read without a command substitution around it, or the query goes into the substitution's own pipe instead of to the terminal, and what comes back is the escape rather than a row.
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* Find the logo in the render instead of assuming where it is
The row and column the frames draw on came from the padding in this repo's fastfetch config. The config that runs is the one in /etc, and `omarchy dev link` says plainly that it does not replace files at fixed system paths — so the two can disagree, and nothing in the code would notice. A logo fastfetch drew on row 1 or row 5, redrawn on row 3, is a logo that jumps the moment the animation starts and stays where the animation put it.
fastfetch's own output is already being captured to measure the layout's height, so the logo can be found in it: take the longest line of the file as a landmark, look for it in the render, and turn where it was found back into where the logo starts. Padding of any size lands correctly, and a render that does not contain the file's own text is not this logo at all — a config that restyled it, a placeholder that was substituted — so there is nothing to animate and it is left alone.
That last part subsumes what the config-path check was guessing at. It is kept, because it also decides whether the window may be fitted, which happens before there is a terminal to measure anything in.
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* Take the cursor query back out
Asking the terminal where the cursor came to rest was meant to see a scrolled layout rather than infer one. It cannot: a linefeed at the bottom margin scrolls the screen and leaves the cursor on the bottom row, so a render that fitted exactly and one that scrolled both answer with the same number. Measured on a real terminal — a 29-line layout in windows of 30, 29 and 28 rows answers 30, 29, 28. The guard therefore only ever agreed with the arithmetic it replaced, and only in the case the arithmetic already had right.
What it did add was a read on the same stdin the keypress that closes About arrives on. A key pressed while the query is outstanding is swallowed; a reply that arrives after the timeout is read by the next tick as the keypress, and the window closes on its own; typed text of the right shape is accepted as an answer, because nothing checked for the introducer; and the query is written before the read turns echo off, so a fast reply can be echoed onto the screen.
None of that buys anything the line count did not already give, so it goes.
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* Fit the About window with a little room to spare
The window was sized to exactly what was measured: the columns the widest module line needed, and one row past the layout's last line for the cursor. That measurement is taken once, and then the content goes on living. An uptime turns minutes into hours and hours into days, a version string grows, a module shows up after the next boot — and a window with nothing in hand clips at the right edge or scrolls the top padding away the moment any of it happens. A scrolled layout also moves the logo off the row it was drawn on, which is where a shifting logo comes from.
Two columns and a row, which is invisible on screen and enough for anything that ticks over. The remembered size in about.fit is keyed on the logo, so the first launch after this still opens at the old size and the fit corrects it there and then.
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