Man1 - neofetch.1

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NAME

Neofetch - A fast, highly customizable system info script

SYNOPSIS

neofetch func_name –option “value” –option “value”

DESCRIPTION

Neofetch is a CLI system information tool written in BASH. Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice.

NOTE: Every launch flag has a config option.

OPTIONS

INFO:

func_name

Specify a function name (second part of info() from config) to quickly display only that function’s information.

Example: neofetch uptime –uptime_shorthand tiny

Example: neofetch uptime disk wm memory

This can be used in bars and scripts like so:

memory=“\((neofetch memory)"; memory="\){memory##*: }”

For multiple outputs at once (each line of info in an array):

IFS=$’\n’ read -d “” -ra info < <(neofetch memory uptime wm)

info=(“${info[@]##*: }”)

–disable infoname

Allows you to disable an info line from appearing in the output. ’infoname’ is the function name from the ’print_info()’ function inside the config file. For example: ’info “Memory” memory’ would be ’–disable memory’

NOTE: You can supply multiple args. eg. ’neofetch –disable cpu gpu’

–title_fqdn on/off
Hide/Show Fully Qualified Domain Name in title.
–package_managers on/off
Hide/Show Package Manager names . (on, tiny, off)
–os_arch on/off
Hide/Show OS architecture.
–speed_type type

Change the type of cpu speed to display. Possible values: current, min, max, bios, scaling_current, scaling_min, scaling_max

NOTE: This only supports Linux with cpufreq.

–speed_shorthand on/off
Whether or not to show decimals in CPU speed.
(no term)
NOTE: This flag is not supported in systems with CPU speed less than :: 1 GHz.
–cpu_brand on/off
Enable/Disable CPU brand in output.
–cpu_cores type

Whether or not to display the number of CPU cores Possible values: logical, physical, off

NOTE: ’physical’ doesn’t work on BSD.

–cpu_speed on/off
Hide/Show cpu speed.
–cpu_temp C/F/off

Hide/Show cpu temperature.

NOTE: This only works on Linux and BSD.

(no term)
NOTE: For FreeBSD and NetBSD-based systems, you need to enable :: coretemp kernel module. This only supports newer Intel processors.
–distro_shorthand on/off

Shorten the output of distro (on, tiny, off)

NOTE: This option won’t work in Windows (Cygwin)

–kernel_shorthand on/off

Shorten the output of kernel

NOTE: This option won’t work in BSDs (except PacBSD and PC-BSD)

–uptime_shorthand on/off
Shorten the output of uptime (on, tiny, off)
–refresh_rate on/off
Whether to display the refresh rate of each monitor Unsupported on Windows
–gpu_brand on/off
Enable/Disable GPU brand in output. (AMD/NVIDIA/Intel)
–gpu_type type

Which GPU to display. (all, dedicated, integrated)

NOTE: This only supports Linux.

–de_version on/off
Show/Hide Desktop Environment version
–gtk_shorthand on/off
Shorten output of gtk theme/icons
–gtk2 on/off
Enable/Disable gtk2 theme/font/icons output
–gtk3 on/off
Enable/Disable gtk3 theme/font/icons output
–shell_path on/off
Enable/Disable showing $SHELL path
–shell_version on/off
Enable/Disable showing $SHELL version
–disk_show value

Which disks to display. Possible values: ’/’, ’/dev/sdXX’, ’/path/to/mount point’

NOTE: Multiple values can be given. (–disk_show ’/’ ’/dev/sdc1’)

–disk_subtitle type

What information to append to the Disk subtitle. Takes: name, mount, dir, none

’name’ shows the disk’s name (sda1, sda2, etc)

’mount’ shows the disk’s mount point (, //mnt/Local Disk, etc)

’dir’ shows the basename of the disks’s path. (/, Local Disk, etc)

’none’ shows only ’Disk’ or the configured title.

–disk_percent on/off
Hide/Show disk percent.
–ip_host url
URL to query for public IP
–ip_timeout int
Public IP timeout (in seconds).
–song_format format
Print the song data in a specific format (see config file).
–song_shorthand on/off
Print the Artist/Album/Title on separate lines.
–memory_percent on/off
Display memory percentage.
–music_player player-name
Manually specify a player to use. Available values are listed in the config file

TEXT FORMATTING:

–colors x x x x x x
Changes the text colors in this order: title, @, underline, subtitle, colon, info
–underline on/off
Enable/Disable the underline.
–underline_char char
Character to use when underlining title
–bold on/off
Enable/Disable bold text
–separator string
Changes the default ’:’ separator to the specified string.

COLOR BLOCKS:

–color_blocks on/off
Enable/Disable the color blocks
–col_offset auto/num
Left-padding of color blocks
–block_width num
Width of color blocks in spaces
–block_height num
Height of color blocks in lines
–block_range num num
Range of colors to print as blocks

BARS:

–bar_char ’elapsed char’ ’total char’
Characters to use when drawing bars.
–bar_border on/off
Whether or not to surround the bar with ’[]’
–bar_length num
Length in spaces to make the bars.
–bar_colors num num
Colors to make the bar. Set in this order: elapsed, total
–cpu_display mode
Bar mode. Possible values: bar, infobar, barinfo, off
–memory_display mode
Bar mode. Possible values: bar, infobar, barinfo, off
–battery_display mode
Bar mode. Possible values: bar, infobar, barinfo, off
–disk_display mode
Bar mode. Possible values: bar, infobar, barinfo, off

IMAGE BACKEND:

–backend backend
Which image backend to use. Possible values: ’ascii’, ’caca’, ’chafa’, ’jp2a’, ’iterm2’, ’off’, ’sixel’, ’tycat’, ’w3m’, ’kitty’
–source source
Which image or ascii file to use. Possible values: ’auto’, ’ascii’, ’wallpaper’, ’path/to/img’, ’/path/to/ascii’, ’/path/to/dir’, ’command output’ [ascii]
–ascii source

Shortcut to use ’ascii’ backend.

NEW: neofetch –ascii “$(fortune | cowsay -W 30)”

–caca source
Shortcut to use ’caca’ backend.
–chafa source
Shortcut to use ’chafa’ backend.
–iterm2 source
Shortcut to use ’iterm2’ backend.
–jp2a source
Shortcut to use ’jp2a’ backend.
–kitty source
Shortcut to use ’kitty’ backend.
–pixterm source
Shortcut to use ’pixterm’ backend.
–sixel source
Shortcut to use ’sixel’ backend.
–termpix source
Shortcut to use ’termpix’ backend.
–tycat source
Shortcut to use ’tycat’ backend.
–w3m source
Shortcut to use ’w3m’ backend.
–off

Shortcut to use ’off’ backend (Disable ascii art).

NOTE: ’source; can be any of the following: ’auto’, ’ascii’, ’wallpaper’, ’path/to/img’, ’/path/to/ascii’, ’/path/to/dir

ASCII:

–ascii_colors x x x x x x
Colors to print the ascii art
–ascii_distro distro
Which Distro’s ascii art to print
(no term)

NOTE: AIX, Alpine, AlterLinux, Anarchy, Android, Antergos, antiX, :: “AOSC OS”, “AOSC OS/Retro”, Apricity, ArcoLinux, ArchBox, ARCHlabs, ArchStrike, XFerience, ArchMerge, Arch, Artix, Arya, Bedrock, Bitrig, BlackArch, BLAG, BlankOn, BlueLight, bonsai, BSD, BunsenLabs, Calculate, Carbs, CentOS, Chakra, ChaletOS, Chapeau, Chrom, Cleanjaro, ClearOS, Clear_Linux, Clover, Condres, Container_Linux, CRUX, Cucumber, Debian, Deepin, DesaOS, Devuan, DracOS, DragonFly, Drauger, Elementary, EndeavourOS, Endless, EuroLinux, Exherbo, Fedora, Feren, FreeBSD, FreeMiNT, Frugalware, Funtoo, GalliumOS, Gentoo, Pentoo, gNewSense, GNOME, GNU, GoboLinux, Grombyang, Guix, Haiku, Huayra, Hyperbola, janus, Kali, KaOS, KDE_neon, Kibojoe, Kogaion, Korora, KSLinux, Kubuntu, LEDE, LFS, Linux_Lite, LMDE, Lubuntu, Lunar, macos, Mageia, MagpieOS, Mandriva, Manjaro, Maui, Mer, Minix, LinuxMint, MX_Linux, Namib, Neptune, NetBSD, Netrunner, Nitrux, NixOS, Nurunner, NuTyX, OBRevenge, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana, openmamba, OpenMandriva, OpenStage, OpenWrt, osmc, Oracle, OS Elbrus, PacBSD, Parabola, Pardus, Parrot, Parsix, TrueOS, PCLinuxOS, Peppermint, popos, Porteus, PostMarketOS, Proxmox, Puppy, PureOS, Qubes, Radix, Raspbian, Reborn_OS, Redstar, Redcore, Redhat, Refracted_Devuan, Regata, Rosa, sabotage, Sabayon, Sailfish, SalentOS, Scientific, Septor, SereneLinux, SharkLinux, Siduction, Slackware, SliTaz, SmartOS, Solus, Source_Mage, Sparky, Star, SteamOS, SunOS, openSUSE_Leap, openSUSE_Tumbleweed, openSUSE, SwagArch, Tails, Trisquel, Ubuntu-Budgie, Ubuntu-GNOME, Ubuntu-MATE, Ubuntu-Studio, Ubuntu, Venom, Void, Obarun, windows10, Windows7, Xubuntu, Zorin, and IRIX have ascii logos

NOTE: Arch, Ubuntu, Redhat, and Dragonfly have ’old’ logo variants.

NOTE: Use ’{distro name}_old’ to use the old logos.

NOTE: Ubuntu has flavor variants.

(no term)
NOTE: Change this to Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-GNOME, :: Ubuntu-Studio, Ubuntu-Mate or Ubuntu-Budgie to use the flavors.
NOTE: Arcolinux, Dragonfly, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, Ubuntu,

CRUX, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Mac, NixOS, OpenBSD, android, Antrix, CentOS, Cleanjaro, ElementaryOS, GUIX, Hyperbola, Manjaro, MXLinux, NetBSD, Parabola, POP_OS, PureOS, Slackware, SunOS, LinuxLite, OpenSUSE, Raspbian, postmarketOS, and Void have a smaller logo variant.

NOTE: Use ’{distro name}_small’ to use the small variants.

–ascii_bold on/off
Whether or not to bold the ascii logo.
-L, –logo
Hide the info text and only show the ascii logo.

IMAGE:

–loop
Redraw the image constantly until Ctrl+C is used. This fixes issues in some terminals emulators when using image mode.
–size 00px | –size 00%
How to size the image. Possible values: auto, 00px, 00%, none
–crop_mode 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. This only works with w3m.
–yoffset px
How close the image will be to the top edge of the window. This only works with w3m.
–bg_color color
Background color to display behind transparent image. This only works with w3m.
–gap num
Gap between image and text.
(no term)
NOTE: –gap can take a negative value which will move the text :: closer to the left side.
–clean
Delete cached files and thumbnails.

OTHER:

–config /path/to/config
Specify a path to a custom config file
–config none
Launch the script without a config file
–no_config
Don’t create the user config file.
–print_config
Print the default config file to stdout.
–stdout
Turn off all colors and disables any ASCII/image backend.
–help
Print this text and exit
–version
Show neofetch version
-v
Display error messages.
-vv
Display a verbose log for error reporting.

DEVELOPER:

–gen-man
Generate a manpage for Neofetch in your PWD. (Requires GNU help2man)

REPORTING BUGS

Author: dt

Created: 2022-02-22 Tue 16:49