neofetch/CHANGELOG.md

Contributors

• @konimex
• @iandrewt
• @jorgegonzalez
• @z33ky
• @mstraube

IRC

Neofetch now has an irc channel at #neofetch on Freenode. If you have any questions, issues or ideas feel free to join the irc channel and I'll be happy to assist you. I know that we've already got the gitter chat but hopefully this makes things easier for those without a github account. :)

OS

• Added support for GNU/kFreeBSD.
• Added support for MINIX.
• Added support for MX.
• Added support for GrombyangOS.
• Added support for AntiX.
• Added support for TrueOS.
• Added support for SalentOS.
• Merged all GNU Hurd instances to Linux since they work exactly the same way.

General

• Travis now runs shellcheck on every commit and pull request.
  • We've had to exclude around 10 lint errors, see this wiki page for why we did this:
  • https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Shellcheck-Exclusions
• Optimize usage of get_de(), get_wm() and get_term().
  • We were calling these multiple times, we now check to see if they were run previously.
• Optimize info caching, only check for cache files in scripts that use caching.
• Cleanup main().
• Renamed old_flags() --> old_options().
• The manpage is now generated using help2man. help2man parses the output of --help and --version to create a manpage. This ensures that our manpage stays 1:1 with the script documentation. We actually found a lot of outdated info in the old manpage thanks to this.
  • A new flag was added called --gen-man which generates a neofetch manpage in your current directory.
• Delete most of info() and instead call prin().
  • This removes a lot of duplicate code between info() and prin().
• Remove printf subshells and instead use printf -v to declare the variables.
• Set fixed $PATH in the beginning of the script.
• Fixed artifacts when using line-breaks in TTYs.
• Removed executable permission from config files. BASH can source them even if they're un-executable.
• All errors are now sent to stderr.

Info

Shell<br >

• [Fish] Fixed memory leak caused by Fish.
• Added support for xonsh.
• Fixed version output on ksh.
• Rewrote the function to remove duplicate code. All shells now use $SHELL --version to get the version info, with the exception of mksh which doesn't have a --version flag.

Uptime<br >

• Moved duplicate code to a function.
• Changed $uptime_shorthand to on by default.

Desktop Environment<br >

• Fixed issues where MATE wouldn't be detected properly.
• Added fallback to $DESKTOP_SESSION, $MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID and $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID.
• Hide Desktop Environment if it matches Window Manager.

CPU<br >

• [Linux] Don't simplify cpufreq speed option names for no reason.
• [Linux] Fixed issues with CPU name detection for architectures other than x86/amd64/ARM.
• [NetBSD] Remove case statement in favor of 1 line test.
• Remove case sensitive substitutions.
  • We match everything case insensitively so they were pointless.
• Simplify check for low CPU speeds.

CPU Usage<br >

• Added Haiku cores command.
• Updated Linux and macOS commands to the match the commands in the get_cpu() function.

GPU<br >

• [Linux] Each GPU is now printed on a separate line.
• [Linux] Added --cpu_type / $cpu_type which let you display all, dedicated or integrated GPUs.

Birthday Install Date<br >

• Renamed get_birthday() -- > get_install_date()
• Removed all date usage from get_install_date().
• Added a new function called convert_time() which takes the time stamped ls output and converts it to a pretty format. The function only uses bash so its much faster than calling date. This makes things simple and keeps the output consistent across all Operating Systems. Example: 2016-12-06 16:58:58.000000000 --> Tue 06 Dec 2016 4:58 PM

Disk<br >

• Rewrote function from scratch.
  • The function is 40 lines smaller than before and works on all [1] versions of df we tested on [2].
• We only show the root (/) partition now.
  • Showing a total of all disks only worked on GNU df and we had to hardcode different commands for Distros and Operating Systems that used a different df.
• We're using the same df flags across all Operating Systems now.
  • No more ugly case statements or per distro hardcoding of df flags.
• Removed all percentage calculation since df already provides us with the percentage.
• Warn the user if df isn't installed.
• Fixed broken output if df wasn't installed but the function was enabled.

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Theme<br >

• [KDE] Don't display GTK Themes if KDE is detected.
• [KDE] If kde[0-9]-config isn't found, try and look for $HOME/.kde.

Song<br >

• [cmus] Simplify block and fix artistsort bug.
• Removed state detection.
• Removed duplicate dbus-send commands.
• Added support for xmms2. @z33ky
• Added support for Exaile music player. @mstraube
• Added support for JuK .@mstraube
• Added support for Bluemindo. @mstraube

Terminal Font<br >

• Added support for Sakura Terminal. @mstraube

Battery<br >

• [MacOS] Fixed issue where battery always appears as charging. @jorgegonzalez

Local IP<br >

• [BSD and Solaris] Merged the detection to Linux.
• [Windows] Support multiple interfaces.

Color Blocks<br >

• Use start++ instead of adding it manually after case. @konimex
• Fixed bug where color blocks wouldn't respect width in TTYs.
• Cursor positioning now takes $block_height into account.
• Fixed all artifacts in virtual consoles.
• Merged $start and $end into an array called block_range.
  • This makes the config option match the command-line flag --block_range.

Images

• [iTerm2] Fixed blank images.
• Fixed bug where image mode would attempt to run in a TTY.

Ascii

• Added Ubuntu-Studio. @konimex
• Fixed bug causing macOS ascii art to be used on other Operating Systems.
• Display warning about 'ascii' being the new default mode.
• Removed ascii_logo_size in favor of ascii_distro='{arch,crux,gentoo}_small.
• [PCBSD] Use TrueOS ascii art.

Screenshot

• Use arrays for $scrot_program

Args

• Fixed bug where neofetch --config sourced the user config twice.
• Cleaned up config arg handling.