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 of your choice!

Table of Contents

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

Features

• Supports Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Windows (Cygwin)!
  • If the script doesn't work on your system, open an issue.
• It's Fast
  • The script makes heavy use of bash builtins and <br >string manipulation.
• Display an image next to the info. (or don't!)
  • Use your current wallpaper, shuffle through a directory or just <br >display an image of your choice.
  • Supports using w3m or iTerm2 to display the images.
• 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 <br >to use with --scrotcmd cmd at launch or by <br >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 or nitrogen

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:

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:

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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 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 <br > enable them by changing these variables or using these flags.

# 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.

getgpu doesn't show my exact video card name

If you're 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

Todo

Here's what's on my todo list

• Cleanup of info array handling

• Imagemagick optimizations

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

  • Resolution (Just missing Windows support)
  • GTK themes (Done!)
  • Terminal Font
  • GPU (In master but experimental) See issue #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.