pixfetch

Another fetch program with pixelized images written in Rust

Configuration

pixfetch can be configured using a config file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pixfetch/config.toml or when $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set in $HOME/.config/pixfetch/config.toml. To see all options you can have a look at the default configuration file.

Additionally, all configuration can also be overridden with flags from the command line. To see those options run pixfetch --help or pixfetch -h for shorter descriptions.

Installation

Arch Linux

On Arch Linux pixfetch can be installed through the AUR with a helper like paru or yay:

paru -S pixfetch

Cargo

In case you do not need the man page and shell completion scripts you can also install pixfetch through cargo:

cargo install pixfetch

Manual

Binary releases

0. Setup

You can set these variables beforehand to be able to just copy below commands (edit the values accordingly):

version=1.0.0
platform=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

1. Download

Download the latest release for your platform from the releases page. In case there is no suitable download option for you, please open an issue:

wget https://github.com/RubixDev/pixfetch/releases/download/v$version/pixfetch-$version-$platform.tar.gz

2. Extract the downloaded archive:

tar -xvf pixfetch-$version-$platform.tar.gz

and open the directory:

cd pixfetch-$version-$platform

3. Copy the files to their respective places:

sudo install -Dm755 pixfetch /usr/bin/pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 README.md /usr/share/doc/pixfetch/README.md
sudo install -Dm644 LICENSE /usr/share/licenses/pixfetch/LICENSE
sudo install -Dm644 doc/pixfetch.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/pixfetch.1.gz
sudo install -Dm644 completion/_pixfetch /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 completion/pixfetch.bash /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 completion/pixfetch.fish /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/pixfetch.fish

Note: For bash completion make sure you have bash-completion installed

From source

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/RubixDev/pixfetch.git

2. Compile the binary:

cargo build --release

3. Copy the binary, README and LICENSE

sudo install -Dm755 "${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}/release/pixfetch" /usr/bin/pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 README.md /usr/share/doc/pixfetch/README.md
sudo install -Dm644 LICENSE /usr/share/licenses/pixfetch/LICENSE

4. Locate the output directory:

This is where the generated man page and shell completion scripts are located. The location of that folder was logged while building the binary. Alternatively you can use following command:

find "${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}/release" -name pixfetch.1 -print0 | xargs -0 ls -t | head -n1 | xargs dirname

You can then open that directory using cd.

5. Copy the generated file to their respective locations

gzip pixfetch.1
sudo install -Dm644 pixfetch.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/pixfetch.1.gz
sudo install -Dm644 _pixfetch /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 pixfetch.bash /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pixfetch
sudo install -Dm644 pixfetch.fish /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/pixfetch.fish

Note: For bash completion make sure you have bash-completion installed