fetch

[Features] [Dependencies] [Installation] [Usage] [TODO] [Thanks]

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 of your choice!

Features

• Supports Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Cygwin)!
  • If the script isn't working on your system open an issue.
• It's Fast
  • The script makes heavy use of bash builtins and string manipulation.
• Display an image next to the info. (or not)
  • The script can use your wallpaper, shuffle through a directory or just display an image.
• Highly Customizable
  • You can customize almost everything.
    • See Usage below or lines 23-233 in script
• Take a screenshot at the end.
  • It's disabled by default and you can specify the cmd to use with --scrotcmd cmd at launch or by changing the value of $scrotcmd in the script.
• Smart crop (or Waifu crop)
  • See https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/wiki/What-is-Smart-Crop%3F

Dependencies

These are the script's required dependencies

• Bash 4.0+
  • For those of you on OS X not wanting to update bash, the script<br > also works with zsh. All you have to do is change the shebang at<br > the top to #!/bin/zsh.
• Text formatting, dynamic image size and padding: tput
• Uptime detection: procps or procps-ng

These are the script's optional dependencies:

• Displaying Images: w3m
  • You may also need w3m-img
• Image Cropping: ImageMagick
• Display Wallpaper: feh
• Current Song: mpc
• Resolution Detection: xorg-xdpyinfo
• Window manager detection: wmctrl
  • This is used as a fallback to parsing .xinitrc and $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
• Take a screenshot on script finish: scrot
  • You can change this to another program with a --scrotcmd and an in script option.

Installation

Arch

1. Install fetch-git from the aur.

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. Move the script to somewhere in your $PATH or just run it from where it is.

Usage

NOTE: For the images to be sized correctly you need to set the $font_width variable. 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.

You can customize what info to print by editing the info array near the top of the script. The array looks like this:

info=(
    "gettitle"
    "underline"
    "OS: getdistro"
    "Kernel: getkernel"
    "Uptime: getuptime"
    "Packages: getpackages"
    etc...
)

See these comments inside the script for more info: https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/blob/master/fetch#L29

 usage: ${0##*/} [--colors 1 2 3 4 5] [--kernel "\$\(uname -rs\)"]

    Info:
    --exclude "OS: getos"  Disable an info line at launch
    --title string         Change the title at the top
    --distro string/cmd    Manually set the distro
    --kernel string/cmd    Manually set the kernel
    --uptime string/cmd    Manually set the uptime
    --uptime_shorthand on/off --v
                           Shorten the output of uptime
    --packages string/cmd  Manually set the package count
    --shell string/cmd     Manually set the shell
    --winman string/cmd    Manually set the window manager
    --use_wmctrl on/off    Use wmctrl for a more accurate reading
    --gtk_shorthand on/off Shorten output of gtk theme/icons
    --cpu string/cmd       Manually set the cpu name
    --memory string/cmd    Manually set the memory
    --speed_type           Change the type of cpu speed to get
                           Possible values: current, min, max
    --song string/cmd      Manually set the current song

    Text Colors:
    --colors 1 2 3 4 5     Change the color of text
                           (title, subtitle, colon, underline, info)
    --title_color num      Change the color of the 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, /path/to/img, off
    --shuffledir           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
    --yoffset px           How close the image will be
                           to the top edge of the window
    --gap num              Gap between image and text right side
                           to the top edge of the window
    --clean                Remove all cropped images

    Screenshot:
    --scrot                Take a screenshot
    --scrotdir             Directory to save the scrot
    --scrotfile            File name of scrot
    --scrotcmd             Screenshot program to launch

    Other:
    --clear on/off         Whether or not to clear the terminal
                           before printing.
    --help                 Print this text and exit

TODO

Here's what's on my todo list

• Add Windows resolution detection

• Cleanup of info array handling

• Imagemagick optimizations

• More info outputs. Now that it's easy to customize what's printed and everything is a function we can add optional support for pretty much anything.

  • Resolution (Done!)
  • GTK themes (Done!)
  • Terminal Font
  • GPU
  • IP
  • etc

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.

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

• @xDemonessx: Helping me test the Windows version.