zFetch

Lightweight system information fetcher for Linux.

zFetch is a lightweight system information fetcher for Linux written in C99. Unlike other system fetchers, this tool focuses on providing a simple, easy-to-remember interface and configuration syntax, extremely fast startup and a reasonable amount of core features.

Installation

zFetch consists on a single source file which can be compiled with any modern C compiler (Clang/GCC) on a Linux-based system. In order to build it, you can just run gcc zfetch.c -o zfetch or use the following Makefile rule:

$ make clean all
rm -f *.o *.a zfetch
clang -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic-errors -Wwrite-strings -std=c99 -O3 zfetch.c -o zfetch

In both cases, you will get a binary file named zfetch that you can move wherever you want.

Usage

In its simplest form, you can just invoke the program without any additional parameter and it will run with all options enabled, that is:

If you instead would like to granularly enable or disable some features, you can do so by creating a configuration file in one of the following paths:

$HOME/.zfetch.conf;
$HOME/.config/zfetch/conf (this takes precedence).

Inside it, you can specify which option to enable and which one to disable:

HOST     = 1
OS       = 0
UPTIME   = 1
CPU      = 1
MEMORY   = 1
DISK     = 1
IP       = 1
LOGO     = 1
BARS     = 0
SHELL    = 1
TERMINAL = 0
DESKTOP  = 1
INIT     = 1
BATTERY  = 1

Any other line will be considered invalid and silently skipped by the builtin parser. To retrieve which options are currently enabled, you can run the program with the -s flag, that is:

$ ./zfetch  --list-opts # or -s
HOST     : ON
OS       : OFF
UPTIME   : ON
CPU      : ON
MEMORY   : ON
DISK     : ON
IP       : ON
LOGO     : ON
BARS     : OFF
SHELL    : ON
TERMINAL : OFF
DESKTOP  : ON
INIT     : ON
BATTERY  : ON

You can also dynamically specify a different path by using the -c CLI argument:

$ ./zfetch  -c $PWD/config -s
Using custom config file: '/home/marco/Projects/zfetch/config'
HOST     : ON
OS       : OFF
UPTIME   : OFF
CPU      : OFF
MEMORY   : ON
DISK     : ON
IP       : ON
LOGO     : ON
BARS     : OFF
SHELL    : ON
TERMINAL : OFF
DESKTOP  : ON
INIT     : ON
BATTERY  : ON

Finally, you can list all supported distribution, using the --list-logos/-a flag:

$ /zfetch -a
Available logos: alpine, arch, debian, fedora, mint, gentoo, artix, linux, nixos, redhat, slackware, suse, ubuntu.

License & acknowledgement

This tool is distributed under the MIT license, the logos were taken from pfetch, neofetch and fastfetch.