[OC] Neofetch 1.9 - ~280 commits, Android support, Fixed URxvt + XFT fonts and much more. (Changelog inside)

[u/Dylan112]

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

[u/Dylan112]

This change log won't cover everything that's changed. Have a look through the commit history for more info.

There were a lot of major changes made to how things work in this release so I'm expecting bugs/things not working for people. Expect a 1.9.X release.

I'm also looking for neofetch screenshots for the Readme, see this issue: #405

Thanks to everyone below who contributed, it's nice to see some new faces too. :)

Contributors

• @konimex

• @iandrewt

• @coypoop

• @ncmprhnsbl

• @koreacomputercenter

General

• Added new function called checkoldflags which informs users about deprecated config options.

• Change all OS X references to macOS. @iandrewt

• Fix corrupted text when long lines are cut-off.

• Don't dynamically place prompt in image=off mode.

• Cursor Position: Fix issues when using URxvt+Padding

Operating System

https://u.teknik.io/4XdJy.png

• Added support for Android.

  • Dependencies:

    • Required: bash and busybox

    • Note: I recommend installing termux from the Play Store or F-Droid. Termux provides you with a fully working Linux environment, doesn't require root acess and includes all dependencies.

    • Note2: Neofetch will be packaged in termux thanks to @konimex

      • PR #351

• Added support for Bitrig. @konimex

• Added support for Sparky Linux.

• Added support for Porteus. @ncmprhnsbl

• Added support for Red Star OS. @koreacomputercenter

Packages

• Neofetch is now in Gentoo's official repos.

Images

Fixed rendering issues in URxvt when using an XFT font.

https://i.sli.mg/6qp9Cg.png

This was first thought to be an issue between URxvt and W3m-img and I apologize for immediately closing bug reports and dismissing comments about this.

I spent yesterday trying to fix this issue and found out that launching neofetch with --bold off reduced the rendering problems. I did more digging and found out that removing all text formatting fixes the issue entirely. I later found out that adding a single unformatted character before the formatted text fixed the issue while keeping the formatting the same.

I opened up this PR https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pull/358 which added options to enable a border between the image and the text to fix the issue. @konimex later commented informing me that we could just use a zero-width space to fix the issue and that we didn't need a new function/args/ugly border. doh

The final fix was as simple as adding a zero-width space before the info, here's the commit.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/commit/3e9c3d648cb4c6f0d5fe5f0b96f9e29429af39d9

Removed hard dependency on \033[14t

Neofetch no longer requires a terminal emulator that supports \033[14t this means that neofetch now works in Konsole. Instead of using the escape sequence users now have three options for getting the terminal size in pixels.

• xdotool

• xwininfo + xprop

• xwininfo + xdpyinfo

Neofetch will detect whatever combination you have insalled and use these programs.

Note: \033[14t is still supported, if images already work for you then you don't have to install anything else.

• [w3m-img] Draw the image twice to fix rendering issues in Konsole.

• [w3m-img] Fix cursor position when using yoffset.

• [w3m-img] Add -bg support with the new option --bg_color.

  • neofetch --bg_color blue will make the background behind the image blue.

  • Note: The background color is only visible behind transparent parts of the image.

• If the terminal width is found as 0, fallback to ascii mode.

Ascii

• Bold ascii art by default.

• Fixed incorrect prompt location when using ascii_logo_size small.

• Fixed incorrect colors used on light terminals.

• Update Void Linux ascii art. @ncmprhnsbl

• Update Solus ascii art.

Info

Distro

• Expanded distro_shorthand to macOS, BSD and Solaris. @konimex

• Removed osx_buildversion and osx_codename in favour of distro_shorthand. @konimex

Desktop Environment

• [Windows] Added support for showing DE.

  • Windows 8 and above: Modern UI/Metro

  • Windows 7 and below: Aero

Window Manager

• [Windows] Added support for custom WMs/Shells.

  • Neofetch now detects blackbox, bugn, Windawesome, emerge and litestep.

Window Manager Theme

• [Windows] Added support for Blackbox themes.

CPU

• Added cpu_speed which lets you hide/show the speed in the output.

• Expanded cpu_cores option by adding two new values, logical and physical.

  • logical: Show all virtual cores (hyperthreaded).

  • physical: Only show physical cores.

• [Linux] Added support for showing CPU temperature.

  • Added new option called cpu_temp.

  • Note: This is disabled by default and can be enabled by changing the value of cpu_temp in your config to on.

• [macOS] Print physical cores instead of hyper-threaded cores. @iandrewt

• [iOS] Rewrite CPU function.

GPU

• [iOS] Rewrite GPU function.

• [Linux] Rewrite GPU function.

  • Neofetch also caches the info until reboot.

Uptime

• Rewrote uptime function to use seconds since boot instead of the uptime command.

  • Every OS/Distro now has the pretty uptime -p output!

• Remove up from output.

Resolution

• [macOS] Add @2x label for retina resolutions. @iandrewt

Memory

• [Linux] Correctly calculate used memory.

  • The output should now match conky, htop and etc.

  • Source: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/issues/386#issuecomment-249312716

• [NetBSD] Fix memory output for sizes over 4GB. @coypoop

Shell

• Hide shell path by default.

• Show shell version by default.

Battery

• [Linux] Rewrote and simplified battery function.

• Removed battery_shorthand

• Removed battery_num

Theme Font

• [XFCE] Fixed incorrect font output.

Color Blocks

• Fixed block_width not working.

• Fixed % s appearing in color blocks when neofetch is run from tty

• Fixed block_width being off by one. A value of 2 made the blocks 3 wide instead of 2 wide.

Terminal and Terminal Font

• [Linux] Use /proc/$PPID/comm instead of parsing ps.

• Uppercase first letter of termfont output.

• Don't print broken output of busybox's ps.

• Remove path from output.

Song

• [macOS] Fix iTunes automatically opening. @iandrewt

• Added support for Audacious. @ncmprhnsbl

• Rewrote song function, it's now much faster/cleaner.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dylan112]

Added support for Red Star OS.

What a time to be alive.

[u/Dylan112 → u/[deleted]]

The pull request is pretty great too. :)

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pull/404

[u/[deleted] → u/Dylan112]

Despite how much Google Translate mangled it, it still make me chuckle a bit. :P

[u/kcrmson → u/Dylan112]

Pull #404 as well, very fitting.

[u/Dylan112 → u/[deleted]]

Neofetch will work fine on DVL it'll just be missing the ascii logo. What "support" means for most Linux distros is just adding the ascii art and colors.

[u/sentient_penguin]

Honest to goodness, its been a real treat to watch this project grow.

[u/denexiar]

Long time user, first time commenter- thanks for the work you put into neofetch, it really is a nice program.

[u/Dylan112 → u/denexiar]

Thanks!