Neofetch
Version: 3.0 Web: http://bit.ly/neofetch
These days it’s hard to find a Linux-related forum or discussion boards where there isn’t a popular ‘Show your Desktop’ thread. People love to show off their customisations to others and Neofetch is a little helper just for that. No, it doesn’t take screenshots, but it does help you to quickly find out useful details about your system.
Using Neofetch, you can boast about your fantastic desktop and prevent a flood of questions such as ‘What icon are you using for X?’ Just run $ neofetch and you’ll see a funny ASCII-rendered logo of your Linux distro and a list of system details next to it. In fact, Neofetch can show logotypes of as many as 108 different operating systems, including various Haiku, Windows and various sorts of BSD. The default list of details includes full OS name, PC type, kernel version, uptime, CPU, GPU, Memory info and, of course, your theme settings.
The new Neofetch release bumps the latest version to 3.0, although the changes are fairly substantive. In addition to extra ASCII artwork, you can now enjoy CPU sensor output in Fahrenheit, multiple GPUs listed on different lines and fixed output in nonGTK based desktop environments (e.g. KDE users will no longer see GTK theme output listed in their screen fetch).
You can configure Neofetch your way by modifying the /etc/neofetch/ config file, which is a plain Bash script. This script enables you to comment out or add custom entries, and there are over 50 configuration options to play around with.
Installing Neofetch is very simple, as long as there are no binary components inside it. As usual, there’s a special PPA for Ubuntu users at ppa:dawidd0811/ neofetch, but there exists an even simpler installation method: you can clone/download the contents of Neofetch GitHub repos and just run $ sudo make install . If you like this small program, feel free to add it to you ~/.bashrc file and enjoy it each time you open a terminal window.
“Prevent a flood of questions such as ‘What icon are you using for X?’!”