confetch

(Formerly bash-showoff-script)

A neat little bash script to make opening a terminal a little more exciting.

This script isn't anything terribly special. It's an overcomplicated series of if statements that do these simple tasks:

Draws 5 colored bars
Lists some basic info about your computer (IE: Your name, your computer model, the chassis type (which needs to be manually specified as of right now), and the RAM
Lists the date and time
Displays weather and moon info from wttr.in
Displays fastfetch or any other commands you want to run

This script keeps a copy of the weather report in the config directory. The script checks to see if its been updated in the last 12 hours, and if it hasn't, it grabs a new copy. This way your weather report sort of stays cached for if you go offline for a bit.

Setup

Until I can get the packages distributed to package managers, you can download the package file and install it manually. At the time of writing, only a Debian/Ubuntu package (.deb) is published. You can install it with:

sudo apt install ./confetch_1.0-8_all.deb

_{If you'd like to use the shell script instead, try giving our bashscript branch a view!}

Once installed, you can run confetch to start! On first run, you'll be greeted with a screen that tells you that confetch will use an API to grab your city name from your IP Geolocation. You are given the choice to consent to this, and if you do not consent, you can manually specify a city, or simply respond with null to disable the weather.

Automation

To run the script every time you open a terminal, simply put confetch at the bottom of your .bashrc file. If that doesn't work, you can try specifying the full path: /usr/bin/confetch_bin/start.sh

Customization

For infomation on how to change the variables and make it your own, you can check out our GitHub Wiki through this link, or by clicking "Wiki" at the top of this page.

To-do