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oxidefetch 1.1.1
Fully cross platform Neofetch clone written in Rust. Up to 25 times faster than Neofetch!
Why Oxidefetch?
Neofetch, being a BASH script, has a few downsides in my opinion.
1: It's slow.
2: It only works on platforms which have the BASH shell.
3: It's kinda big, and I like having more compact info.
As such, I wrote OxideFetch. How cool is that? It displays your information in a manner that's compact, and BLAZINGLY fast.
I've measured speeds of up to 25 times faster than normal Neofetch on WSL2.
Features
OxideFetch can display all of the following information:
- Date, time, and day of week
- Username and hostname
- Operating system name, symbol, and matching color
- Kernel version
- Uptime
- Shell
- CPU
- GPU
- Memory
Dependencies
Build/Install
To build Oxidefetch, you need Cargo. You can use Cargo to automatically build and install it like so:
cargo install --git https://github.com/shibedrill/oxidefetch
.
From there, it should be in your PATH. If not, add source ~/.cargo/env
to your profile, or add ~/.cargo/bin
to your $PATH. If you do not already have Cargo installed
on your system, you can do so by installing Rustup- either via the instructions on their website or via your system package manager.
Runtime
There's only a couple runtime dependencies for this project.
1: bash
shell installed for GPU detection on Linux/Unix/mac.
2: lspci
installed for GPU detection on Linux/Unix/mac.
(If either of these above dependencies are absent, chances are the GPU field will simply not show up. It won't crash or anything.
GPU detection runs on Windows without any dependencies.)
3: Nerd fonts symbols are used in the output. Install a patched font on your system, or patch an already installed font.
How you can help with the project
I need to verify the output of the OS information detection libraries I'm pulling in. To do this, I need the help of people
with varying types of systems. I've tested Arch Linux and Windows 10, but nothing else. To help, you can kindly clone this
repo, and inside the folder, run cargo test -- --nocapture
, and send the resultant test_output.txt
file to my
noreply email address, or directly to me on Discord at Shibe Drill#9730
. This program does NOT collect information
regarding your real name, IP, location, etc. You can look at the file it generates to be sure- it's all plaintext, babey.
To Do & Roadmap
Very near future:
- Add support for user configurability for entries (whether or not an entry shows, its color, units for memory and time)
- Add process count detection
- Switch from
bash
tosh
to run the GPU detection command, if possible, sincesh
is installed on every *nix system by default
Future:
- Add host system name detection (Such as "Windows Subsystem for Linux", "IdeaPad 3", "Dell Optiplex", etc.
- Add package count/package manager detection
- Crosstest on more distributions to verify
sys.name()
outputs
Distant future:
- Add terminal emulator detection by walking up the process tree
- More extensible user configuration for entry formatting
Changelog
1.0.0: Official full stable release
1.0.1: Fixed distro name for Debian GNU/Linux. Logo & color works now.
1.1.0: Refactored some poorly written typing, and added support for memory.
1.1.1: Made sure that linux system detection won't fail if Linux has a capital L.