How to generate system information using ScreenFetch

ScreenFetch- System Information Generator

ScreenFetch is a System Information Tool used for Bash Shell purpose. By using this tool, we can take screen shots and to change colors. System Information shows as an user logs into Bash shell. System Information Generator for Linux by using ScreenFetch is discussed in this Guideline.

These are list of information' s which will be displayed while executing the screenfetch command.

• Packages
• Shell
• OS
• User_name@Host_name
• Kernel
• Uptime
• WM
• DE
• WM Theme
• GTK Theme
• Font
• RAM
• CPU
• Resolution
• Icon Theme

Installation of ScreenFetch in Linux

Download the screenfetch package using wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/archive/master.zip
--2016-04-30 16:08:08--  https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.252.121
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.252.121|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/zip/master [following]
--2016-04-30 16:08:09--  https://codeload.github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.252.162
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.252.162|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ master.zip’ 

master.zip              [   < =>                 ]  61.97K  96.1KB/s   in 0.6s   

2016-04-30 16:08:11 (96.1 KB/s) - ‘ master.zip’  saved [63459]

[root@linuxhelp ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  master.zip
[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip master.zip 
Archive:  master.zip
22e5bee7647453d45ec82f543f37b8a6a062835d
   creating: screenFetch-master/
  inflating: screenFetch-master/CHANGELOG  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/COPYING  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/README.mkdn  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/TODO  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/screenfetch-dev  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/screenfetch.1  
  inflating: screenFetch-master/update-manpage.sh  

Move the folder under /usr/bin and then execute it. Script Installation is not necessary.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cp screenFetch-master/screenfetch-dev /usr/bin/
[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd /usr/bin
[root@linuxhelp bin]# mv screenfetch-dev screenfetch
[root@linuxhelp bin]# chmod 755 screenfetch 

Next step is to test ‘ screenfetch‘ command

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch 

Use ‘ -v‘ (Verbose) option with ScreenFetch command to get detailed system information.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -v

Use -n option to hide ASCII logo of Linux Distribution.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -n

Use ‘ -N‘ option to display without any colors.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -N

Depending upon the terminal width using option ' -t' truncate the output.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -t

Use ' -E' option to suppress the Error in the output.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -E

Use ‘ -V‘ option to view the current version.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -V

‘ -h‘ option is used to view the help page.

[root@linuxhelp bin]# screenfetch -h

To Use screenfetch at User Login

For Displaying Output, you must add the line below, as the end of ~/.bashrc file.

if [ -f /usr/bin/screenfetch ]  then screenfetch  fi

After adding the above line, the ~/.bashrc file looks