minted/fancyvrb environment as argument to TikZ command

Question

I want to create a command, accepting an argument, which sets the content of the argument as a TikZ picture. Problem: The argument is a minted/FancyVrb environment.

MWE:

%!TEX OPTIONS = --shell-escape
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{minted}
\newcommand{\tikzverb}[1]{\tikz{\node (text) [draw=blue, thick] {#1}; \fill [opacity=0.5] (text.north east) circle (5pt);}}
\begin{document}
\tikzverb{
\begin{minted}{text}
test
\end{minted}
}
\end{document}

Some background: This MWE is boiled down and simplified from a command from my slides, which I set via LaTeX Beamer. I configured minted for source code highlighting, so I'd rather use this package instead of other verbatim environments. In the slides, the command should display bash shell output.
During assembling of this MWE, I found out that using a savebox does not solve the issue, which was usually one of the solutions in other questions like this. A combination of savebox and lstlisting environments works (see also this), but that'd mean another package which needs to be configured separately. I rather stick to minted, if I can (because it's great).

Didn't know tcolorbox. Although it's another abstraction layer on top, let's see how far I come! Thanks! — AndiH, Aug 19 '17 at 14:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '17 at 07:30

This does not directly answer my posed question, but the underlying problem (creating a fake bash shell). As suggested by @TeXnician, I use tcolorbox (which indeed is another package with all kind of new commands; but it's quite awesome).

I'm happy with the result:

Any further suggestions to improve upon my code?

% \usepackage[minted]{tcolorbox}
% \tcbuselibrary{skins}
\definecolor{topbar}{RGB}{220,220,220}
\definecolor{main}{RGB}{30,30,30}
\definecolor{quit}{RGB}{248,73,73}
\definecolor{min}{RGB}{252,182,37}
\definecolor{max}{RGB}{41,198,52}
\colorlet{offwhite}{white!96!black}
\newtcblisting{fauxshell}{%
  listing engine=minted, 
  minted language=text, 
  title={\strut}, 
  listing only, 
  enhanced, 
  colbacktitle=topbar, 
  boxrule=0cm,
  left=2mm,
  width=\textwidth,
  frame hidden, 
  colback=main, 
  coltext=offwhite, 
  overlay={
    \fill [fill=quit] ([xshift=3mm]title.west) circle (1mm);
    \fill [fill=min] ([xshift=6mm]title.west) circle (1mm);
    \fill [fill=max] ([xshift=9mm]title.west) circle (1mm);
  }%
}
\begin{fauxshell}
$ echo `date`
Mon Aug 21 09:21:35 CEST 2017
\end{fauxshell}

minted/fancyvrb environment as argument to TikZ command

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