capta1nt0ad / toadfetch

A superfast alternative to neofetch, toadfetch!

A superfast alternative to neofetch, toadfetch!

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What is toadfetch?

You might have heard of a program called neofetch before. It fetches information about your hardware, and displays that information in a pretty way. But, it has one problem: It's very slow! Even on fast hardware, it can take over 2 seconds to run, compared to toadfetch's timings coming in at under 0.04 seconds. toadfetch is an alternative to neofetch written in Python 3, and is arguably prettier than neofetch.

If you want something exactly like neofetch and slightly faster than toadfetch, check out fastfetch.

Screenshots

Operating Systems

At this time, toadfetch only supports Linux. Support may be added for BSD/macOS in the future, but Windows support will never come.

Installation

To install toadfetch, just run this command.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Capta1nT0ad/toadfetch/main/install.sh | /bin/bash

Note: Make sure that the default shell for the root user is /bin/bash, there may be problems otherwise.

Running

Simply run:

toadfetch

Bugs

Here are all known issues for toadfetch. Please open an issue if you are facing an issue and it is not listed here.

Active

• One some devices, the CPU field has garbage info. I'm working on fixing this.

Fixed

• If toadfetch took more than 1 second, it would throw an error.
• Custom images wouldn't work because of a refernce to a file path only used in development :)

Custom Images

To display custom images in toadfetch, it must be a PNG image. Simply rename it to custom.png and copy it to /usr/share/toadfetch/images/custom.png. Please note that toadfetch may be a little bit slower when using custom images as it does not have the image predefined in the code and needs to use catimg to generate it on the fly.

Tips

1. Wrapping

You may want to add this alias to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc (depending on the shell you use) to disable 'wrapping' (go to the next line) text when toadfetch's output is too large to fit in the terminal.

alias toadfetch="(tput rmam; toadfetch; tput smam)"

License

toadfetch is licesned under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.

toadfetch, a superfast alternative to neofetch
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