neofetch - Man Page

A fast, highly customizable system info script

Examples (TL;DR)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Report bugs to https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues

Referenced By

cinfo(1), fastfetch(1), ncneofetch(1).

Aug 2020 Neofetch 7.1.0