fetch

This is the home of my fetch script! This script gathers info
about your system and prints it to the terminal next to an image, <br > your distro's logo or any ascii art of your choice!

Table of Contents

• Features
• Dependencies
• Installation
• Post Install
• Usage
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Issues and Workarounds
• Thanks

Features

• Supports Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Windows (Cygwin)
• Display a full color image, a file containing ascii art or your distro's logo in ascii next to the info.
• The script is fast. We use bash builtins wherever possible and only spawn external processes when necessary.
• Take a screenshot of your desktop on script finish.
• Customize which info is displayed, where it's displayed and when it's displayed.
  • See this wiki page

Dependencies

Required dependencies:

All OS:

• Bash 4.0+

Linux / BSD / Windows:

• Uptime detection: procps or procps-ng

Optional dependencies:

NOTE: If w3m or Imagemagick aren't found then image support will be disabled.

All OS:

• Displaying Images: w3m-img or iTerm2
  • w3m-img is sometimes bundled together with w3m. (Arch)
  • Note: To enable iTerm2 mode, you need to change $image_backend to iterm2 or use the launch flag --image_backend iterm2.
• Image Cropping, Resizing etc: ImageMagick
• More accurate window manager detection: wmctrl

Linux / BSD:

• Display Wallpaper: feh, nitrogen or gsettings
• Current Song: mpc or cmus
• Resolution Detection: xorg-xdpyinfo
• Take a screenshot on script finish: scrot
  • You can change this to another program with --scrot_cmd and $scrot_cmd.

Installation

Arch

1. Install fetch-git from the aur.

Gentoo / Funtoo

1. Add the 3rd party repo
   • layman -o https://gist.githubusercontent.com/z1lt0id/24d45b15800b98975260/raw/2fdf6645cdc3c1ca0b0af83a7bf8f86598e386ae/fs0ciety.xml -f -a fs0ciety
2. Sync the repos
   • layman -S
3. To enable w3m and scrot support, enable the appropriate flags.
   • echo "x11-apps/fetch" >> /etc/portage/package.use
4. Install the package
   • emerge -a x11-apps/fetch

Others

1. Download the latest source at https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch
2. Make the file executable using chmod. chmod +x /path/to/fetch
3. Symlink fetch to somehwere in your $PATH. ln -s /path/to/fetch /path/to/$PATH
   • Fetch now comes with ascii art and a config file so moving<br > just the script file will disable these features.

Post Install

Using the config file

Fetch will by default create a config file at $HOME/.config/fetch/config and this file<br > contains all of the script's options/settings. The config file allows you to keep your<br > customizations between script versions and allows you to easily share your customizations<br > with other people.

You can launch the script without a config file by using the flag --config none and you can<br > specify a custom config location using --config path/to/config.

Sizing the image correctly

NOTE: For the images to be sized correctly you need to set the $font_width variable.<br > If you don't know your font width in pixels keep trying values until the image is sized correctly.

You can also use the launch flag --font_width to set it on the fly.

Customizing what info gets displayed

At the top of the script and in the config file there's a function that allows you to customize<br > all of the info that gets displayed.

Here's what you can do:

• Add new info lines
• Change the ordering of the info
• Remove unwanted info lines
• Use bash syntax to control when info gets displayed

See this wiki page that goes more in-depth about it:

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/wiki/Customizing-Info

Customizing the script using a custom alias

If you don't want to edit the script you can customize almost everything using launch flags!

Here's what my fetch alias looks like:

alias fetch2="fetch \
--block_range 1 8 \
--line_wrap off \
--bold off \
--uptime_shorthand on \
--gtk_shorthand on \
--colors 4 1 8 8 8 7 \
"

Usage

usage: ${0##*/} --option "value"

Info:
--osx_buildversion     Hide/Show Mac OS X build version.
--speed_type           Change the type of cpu speed to display.
                       Possible values: current, min, max, bios,
                       scaling_current, scaling_min, scaling_max
                       NOTE: This only support Linux with cpufreq.
--kernel_shorthand     Shorten the output of kernel
--uptime_shorthand     Shorten the output of uptime (tiny, on, off)
--gpu_shorthand on/off Shorten the output of GPU
--gtk_shorthand on/off Shorten output of gtk theme/icons
--gtk2 on/off          Enable/Disable gtk2 theme/icons output
--gtk3 on/off          Enable/Disable gtk3 theme/icons output
--shell_path on/off    Enable/Disable showing \$SHELL path
--shell_version on/off Enable/Disable showing \$SHELL version

Text Colors:
--colors 1 2 3 4 5 6   Change the color of text
                       (title, @, subtitle, colon, underline, info)
--title_color num      Change the color of the title
--at_color num         Change the color of "@" in title
--subtitle_color num   Change the color of the subtitle
--colon_color num      Change the color of the colons
--underline_color num  Change the color of the underlines
--info_color num       Change the color of the info

Text Formatting:
--underline on/off     Enable/Disable title underline
--underline_char char  Character to use when underlineing title
--line_wrap on/off     Enable/Disable line wrapping
--bold on/off          Enable/Disable bold text
--prompt_height num    Set this to your prompt height to fix
                       issues with the text going off screen at the top

Color Blocks:
--color_blocks on/off  Enable/Disable the color blocks
--block_width num      Width of color blocks
--block_range start end --v
                       Range of colors to print as blocks

Image:
--image                Image source. Where and what image we display.
                       Possible values: wall, shuffle, ascii,
                       /path/to/img, off
--image_backend        Which program to use to draw images.
--shuffle_dir           Which directory to shuffle for an image.
--font_width px        Used to automatically size the image
--image_position       Where to display the image: (Left/Right)
--split_size num       Width of img/text splits
                       A value of 2 makes each split half the terminal
                       width and etc
--crop_mode            Which crop mode to use
                       Takes the values: normal, fit, fill
--crop_offset value    Change the crop offset for normal mode.
                       Possible values: northwest, north, northeast,
                       west, center, east, southwest, south, southeast

--xoffset px           How close the image will be
                       to the left edge of the window
                       NOTE: This only works with w3m
--yoffset px           How close the image will be
                       to the top edge of the window
                       NOTE: This only works with w3m
--gap num              Gap between image and text right side
                       to the top edge of the window
                       NOTE: --gap can take a negative value which will
                       move the text closer to the left side.
--clean                Remove all cropped images


Ascii:
--ascii                Where to get the ascii from, Possible values:
                       distro, /path/to/ascii
--ascii_color          Color to print the ascii art
--ascii_distro distro  Which Distro\'s ascii art to print


Screenshot:
--scrot /path/to/img   Take a screenshot, if path is left empty
                       the screenshot function will use
                       \$scrot_dir and \$scrot_name.
--scrot_cmd            Screenshot program to launch

Other:
--config               Specify a path to a custom config file
--config none          Launch the script without a config file
--help                 Print this text and exit

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I enable screenfetch mode?

Launching the script with --ascii distro or setting ascii="distro" and image="ascii" <br > inside the script will launch the script in "screenfetch mode". The script will display your<br > distro's ascii next to the info, exactly like screenfetch.

Why doesn't fetch support my wallpaper setter?

It's hard to add support for other wallpaper setters as<br > they don't provide a way of getting the current wallpaper from the cli.

If your wallpaper setter does provide a way of getting the current wallpaper<br > or you know where it's stored then adding support won't be a problem!<br >

Issues and Workarounds

The image is blank and won't show up.

The text is too long for my terminal window and wraps to the next line causing the image to not render correctly.

There are a few ways to fix this.

• Disable line wrapping with line_wrap=off in the script or with the launch flag --line_wrap off

• The uptime and gtk info lines each have a shorthand option that makes their output smaller. You can <br > enable them by changing these variables or using these flags.

# In script options
uptime_shorthand="on"
gtk_shorthand="on"
gpu_shorthand="on"

# Launch flags
--uptime_shorthand on
--gtk_shorthand on
--gpu_shorthand on

• Edit the config to make the subtitles shorter

• Resizing the terminal so that the lines don't wrap.

The text is pushed over too far to the right

The easiest way to fix this is to change the value of --gap or $gap<br > to a negative value. For example --gap -10 will move the text 10 spaces to the left.

getgpu doesn't show my exact video card name

If your lspci | grep "VGA" output looks like this:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1401 (rev a1)

Instead of this:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] (rev a1)

Then you're affected by the issue.

This is caused by your /usr/share/misc/pci.ids\* files being outdated and you can fix it<br > by running this command as root.

sudo update-pciids

Thanks

Thanks to:

• metakirby5: Providing great feedback as well as ideas for the script.

• Screenfetch:

  • I've used some snippets as a base for a few functions in this script.
  • I've used the ascii art from here.

• @jrgz: Helping me test the Mac OS X version.

• @xDemonessx: Helping me test the Windows version.