KatFetch 1.2.8

A minimal and customizable fetch script.

KatFetch

KatFetch is a minimal and customizable fetch script.

What is a fetch script?

A fetch script is a script that fetches some information about your system. It is commonly used when taking screenshots of your desktop and is designed to show off your terminal and it's colours.

Installation

You can install KatFetch using Pip. Simply run pip3 install katfetch as root (or use the --user option if ~/.local/bin is in your path).

KatFetch also includes an installer. To use it, simply run python3 setup.py install and KatFetch will be installed to /usr/bin along with all dependencies.

Dependencies

Note: If you install KatFetch using setup.py, all dependencies are installed automatically. To remove unwanted dependencies, you can simply remove them from the install_requires list.

To display all information entries, KatFetch requires some dependencies, however all of these are optional (with the exception of Click). If you don't want to install a specific module, simply remove the offending entry from get_info() and the entries array in main().

Module	Used for
distro	Getting Linux Distribution
cpuinfo	Getting CPU information
hurry.filesize	Displaying RAM usage as a human readable value
psutil	Getting RAM usage
click	Displaying entries in colour, colour bar and arguments

Command line arguments

• --color TEXT Accent color.
• --nobar Don't show bar.
• --barlen INTEGER Number of colour blocks to display.
• --showbg Show background colour block in colour bar.
• --block TEXT Block character to use in bar.
• --height INTEGER Height of bar.
• --fg Colour the foreground of the block character.
• --nocol Disable accent colours.
• --stdout Combine --nobar and --nocol to output text with no fancy formatting.
• --help Show help message and exit.

Adding and removing entries

Adding an extra line of information is super simple. Each entry is stored in a list. First, you need to add some code that will get you the information you want to add as a function. Then, add some code similar to this to the display_entries() function.

display_entry("Greeting", "Hello, World!", color)

This will output something like:

Greeting Hello, World!

Where "Greeting" uses the colour you specified (if color is set to None, no colour will be displayed).

Removing entries is very similar and even easier, simply remove them from the display_entries() function.

Improving speed

Out of the box, KatFetch can be a little slow to run. On my system, it can take up to 1 second for KatFetch to finish displaying info. This is caused by the function that gets processor information and is out of my control.

If you don't really need to see processor information, you can simply remove it from get_info() and the entries list (see adding and removing entries above) for a massive speed boost.

Running on Windows

KatFetch will not run on Windows. I currently have no intentions to support Windows, however, if you would like to, you can make a fork and add the necessary code.

Things planned for the future

There are a couple more things I need to implement. Pull requests for these features would be super helpful.

• Find a way to get pretty terminal application instead of TERM variable.

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