Customizing Neofetch - Everything You Should Know

Today I talk about all the things you can do with Neofetch.
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==== Time Stamps ====
0:00 Intro
0:50 My Neofetch Looks Like This
1:14 The Standard Neofetch
2:13 The Config File
2:38 Print Info Section
3:47 Neofetch Modules
5:00 Changing the Art
8:21 Alternative Distro Logos
9:52 Colors
10:35 Image config
11:00 Making Changes, Pay Attention to Comments
12:02 Back to My Config
12:09 Other Capabilities
12:13 Setting Variables
12:44 Adding Icons
13:33 Use Built Ins and Awk
14:23 NeoCat
16:20 Wrapping Up
#Neofetch #linux #thelinuxcast

[@TheLinuxCast]

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[@chloe-sunshine7]

WHERE WAS THIS TWO YEARS AGO

[@TheITGuy84]

This man is an expert, never crossed my mind that neofetch could be changed

[@rapidfiringneurons]

Loving your channel. Thanks for honest opinions in a time where those are rarer and rarer.

[@wantgoodvibes6166]

Thank you so much for the great breakdown and info on Neofetch, :)

[@becktronics]

Matt, I've probably watched 15 videos of yours in the past couple of days and I must say you are an absolute master at Linux... I just can't get enough of your content! I'd love to chat about note-taking apps sometime. It's something I've thought a lot, and given my FOSS-oriented stance that I'm trying to take (despite all my failures and remaining a noob in many facets of using my system), I think I might have an idea for that. Keep up the awesome work, I'll find my way into your guys' Discord soon! :)

[@juanroldan4379]

Nice. Thank you. I'm going to try this.

[@keikogaming]

Matt you are such a hero of the Linux community. Keep up the good job! ❤

[@wyfyj]

Great wallpaper!

[@hipdad9461]

bout freakin time you did this video.... SLACKER!!

[@torsten.breswald]

i like the transparency and the pywal colors, hehe

[@77seban]

Thanks a lot 🙂

[@usefulsplash1]

this was a great tutorial, thank you! for the life of me could not get custom art to work in Kitty however, and it seems I'm not alone in that issue, but I still got a lot out of this video

[@TheLinuxCast]

Yeah that feature is very finicky. It doesn't work for me half the time either.

[@usefulsplash1]

@@TheLinuxCast relieving at least to know it's not just me messin smth up, but we keep it moving!

[@dogzdude]

Thanks! Cool info! I use neofetch on freebsd and most of this stuff works for me too. I wonder if I can get neocat to work on freebsd? I use linux too, so I'll check out your other videos too. Cheers! PS, also, using character map you can add all kinds of fun symbols.

[@cosmicvoid2207]

Great video. Could you please do one for Conky as well?

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

I use a custom version of paleofetch (which replaces the Arch logo with NixOS and tweaks some things), and if I want to customize it further, I edit the code itself lol

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

I use pfetch but the level of detail with Neofetch's ASCII art can be pretty insane.

[@jayplay8140]

is it possible to use an animated gif as the art?

[@lqlarry]

I use owofetch. I found a coupon for it in my AARP Bulletin.

[@morko8491]

how do i remove the ":" from the info output? i tried adding icons but the quotes still show up by default...

[@MichaelDeBusk]

I switched to hyfetch some time back. The maintainers are very active.

[@LINUXBANDIT]

i use a neofetch and synth shell fusion.

[@xeteorblaze]

what text editor youre using?

[@dr.asifakonjee]

Nice video Matt. Is it possible to share your current neofetch config? I didn’t find it in your gitlab repo. Thanks.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Should be up there now. It will be in the my-dots repo.

[@dr.asifakonjee]

@@TheLinuxCast... Thanks.

[@LifeUnscripted13]

awesome...I cant get my picture to show though.. when I include the path in the source part and refresh the terminal it just shows all the neofetch info with no pictures. Picture is quite small even under 3mb, tried one with 56kb also and nothing.

[@TheLinuxCast]

What terminal are you using? What backend did you use?

[@LifeUnscripted13]

@@TheLinuxCast Tilix on Ubuntu 22.04. Used the w3m backend image since its what I have installed. Ive checked image path a million times for typos and did other things ChatGPT had suggested could be wrong and nothing. The image wont appear on Tilix and GNOME emulators but it appears on xterm which isnt my favorite. Any clues?

[@SirSomnolent]

neofetch is pretty but that slight delay when I fire up a terminal drives me nuts

[@TheLinuxCast]

Remove the package line and it will be faster.

[@96shahab]

Out of curiosity and not actually related to this video, but I noticed you have 64 gigs of memory. I'm wondering, how often do you find yourself utilizing it and if/when you do, what sort of tasks are you running?

[@TheLinuxCast]

I average around 15-25GB of use usually. It goes up when I render videos or am using a lot of VMs.

[@96shahab]

@@TheLinuxCast thank you sir, I asked because as a dev I never found myself using that much on my machine. My dev machine also has 64 gigs and I often felt dissatisfied as if I'd just wasted money. I'd usually only get up to around 20 gigs when running multiple containers, however I never find myself using proper VMs, that would definitely eat the memory.

[@probitj.kalita6459]

I use minfetch now, faster and simpler

[@thingsiplay]

I'm shocked that you did not hop to a different fetch tool. I switched to fastfetch, because it's faster and I liked the default output more. And Neofetch is abandoned for a long time now.

[@TheLinuxCast]

As I've been shouted at on Mastodon, Neofetch isn't abandoned, but feature complete. Whatever that means

[@thingsiplay]

@@TheLinuxCast That's your definition. Neofetch has bugs and missing features, which are not worked on anymore. In example there is stuff that is falsely detected. People have suggested fixes for some other issues. Fastfetch still is in development, fixed 3 issues I reported, has more features and is faster. Edit: But I don't want come over too negative here or disrespecting your work on the video! The video content is still useful and interesting and inspired me to look more in the config options. I was just suggesting an alternative. In fact, Neofetch still works and there is no hurry in switching. I'm just surprised you did not. :D Fastfetch is much faster and running it every time the terminal opens will speed up.

[@TheDrunkenAlcoholic]

@@thingsiplay you need to define "faster" as depending on what is being displayed will determine the speed, I made my own fetch program in pascal, its was and still is the fastest fetch I have personally used I coded it for speed e.g 1 millisecond or less to display most details that fetch programs display. saying that speed is not everything, especially when we are talking about most if not all fetch programs, even those written in bash script are still taking less than 1 second (1000 milliseconds) to display the data

[@thingsiplay]

@@TheDrunkenAlcoholic I can almost see how the lines are building up in Neofetch. Fastfetch is done in a split second. Running Neofetch feels like losing control for a split second. Not sure how to define "faster", it's quite simple term. I have just reinstalled neofetch to time it and removed it again: $ time neofetch real 0m0,183s user 0m0,125s sys 0m0,063s $ time fastfetch real 0m0,037s user 0m0,029s sys 0m0,010s It's more apparent if you have a fetch as a default action when you launch your terminal, as many people are doing it.

[@TheDrunkenAlcoholic]

@@thingsiplay $ time pasfetch real 0m0.001s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s that's on Ubuntu based systems, on Archlinux the speed doesn't register with standard time as lowest is 1 millisecond, but using fish the speed is ~700 microseconds which is 0.7 millisecond, which is 0.0007s so in comparison "fastfetch" is 37 times slower on ubuntu systems and if ran on Arch then its over 53 times slower ;) "fastfetch" is not looking so fast now. to demonstrate how spoeed is not that important, take your times comparing neofetch vs "fastfetch" and you will see "fatchfetch" is only 5 times faster than neofetch based on the time you gave. that's not much really when you see that pasfetch is potentially 53 times faster than "fastfetch" and atleast 37 times faster

[@GarbageCanVsChild]

yes indeed your fetch is better

[@sharktooh76]

Why use neofetch when fastfetch/flashfetch exists?

[@synen]

Distro fights, shell fights, terminal fights, fetch fights now? Live and let live.

[@sharktooh76]

@@synen live and let die... Neofetch is dead

[@cirkulx]

my neofetch is horrifying. not because of how i have it configured. because my linux machine is a pi zero and its on a 1 inch display.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Lol. Explaining that on unixporn must be fun.

[@ChimeraLV]

just write your own fetch script