# fetch
[[Features](#features)] [[Dependencies](#dependencies)] [[Installation](#installation)] [[Post Install](#post-install)] [[Usage](#usage)] [[Issues and Workarounds](#issues-and-workarounds)] [[TODO](#todo)] [[Thanks](#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!
![1](http://i.imgur.com/bORHxT5.png)
## Features
- **Supports Linux, Mac OS X, \*BSD and Windows (Cygwin)!**
- If the script isn't working on your system open an issue.
- *BSD support is currently in testing! See issue [#10](https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/issues/10#issuecomment-172432389)
- **It's Fast**
- The script makes heavy use of bash builtins and
string manipulation.
- **Display an image next to the info. (or don't!)**
- The script can use your current wallpaper, shuffle through a directory or just
display an image of your choice.
- The wallpaper function on linux uses feh, It's hard to add support
for other wallpaper setters as they don't provide a way of getting
the current wallpaper from the cli.
- **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 `$scrotcmd` in the script.
- **Smart crop (or Waifu crop)**
- See https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/wiki/What-is-Smart-Crop%3F
## Dependencies
#### Required dependencies:
- Bash **4.0+**
- Text formatting, dynamic image size and padding: `tput`
- Uptime detection: `procps` or `procps-ng`
#### Optional dependencies:
All OS:
- Displaying Images: `w3m`
- You may also need `w3m-img`
- **Note:** The script can now also use iTerm2's builtin image rendering instead of w3m!
- Enable it by changing `image_backend` to `iterm2` or by using the launch flag `--image_backend`.
- Image Cropping, Resizing etc: `ImageMagick`
- Current Song: `mpc`
- Resolution Detection: `xorg-xdpyinfo`
- Window manager detection: `wmctrl`
- This is used as a fallback to parsing `.xinitrc` and `$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.
Linux | \*BSD:
- Display Wallpaper: `feh`
## 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 $PATH or just run it from where it is.
## Post Install
**NOTE:** For the images to be sized correctly you need to set the `$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:
```sh
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
If you don't want to edit the script you can customize everything using flags at launch!
Here's what my fetch alias looks like:
```sh
alias fetch2="fetch \
--block_range 1 8 \
--line_wrap off \
--bold off \
--uptime_shorthand on \
--gtk_shorthand on \
--exclude 'Icons: getgtkicons' \
--exclude 'Resolution: getresolution' \
--colors 4 1 8 8 8 7 \
"
```
## Usage
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
--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
--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
--uptime_shorthand Shorten the output of uptime
--gtk_shorthand on/off Shorten output of gtk theme/icons
--gpu_shorthand on/off Shorten the output of GPU
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
## Issues and Workarounds
#### The image is rendering with black lines in Urxvt while using an xft font.
This is an issue with w3mimgdisplay and not the script. You can find a workaround here:
https://github.com/hut/ranger/issues/86#issuecomment-17346249
#### 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
enable them by changing these variables or using these flags.
```sh
# In script options
$uptime_shorthand on
$gtk_shorthand on
# Launch flags
--uptime_shorthand on
--gtk_shorthand on
```
* Edit the info array to make the subtitles shorter
* Resizing the terminal so that the lines don't wrap.
#### [Linux] The script hangs and doesn't display anything
This is caused by the getwallpaper function failing to find your current wallpaper and
imagemagick trying to crop a nonexistent image. You can fix this by installing feh and using it
to set your wallpaper or by changing the image source.
You can change the source by editing the `$image` variable or by launching the script with `--image`.
The possible values are:
* **wall** - Use the current wallpaper. (Default)
* **shuffle** - Shuffle through images in a directory. See `$shuffledir`
* **path/to/img.png** - Select an image to display.
* **off** - Disable images
## TODO
Here's what's on my todo list
- Add Windows resolution detection
- Add BSD cpu speed
- 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 (In master but experimental) See **[issue #21](https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch/issues/21)**.
- 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.