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Cowfetch

Fetch program written in shell, forked from Cat-fetch-reborn by JhonnyRice, and using the cow from cowsay. Cowfetch includes:

  • All the info of neofetch
  • Good WM detection (but not by me bc I suck lol)
  • moo

Screenshots

Cowfetch on Linux Mint

Install

Latest release (recommended)

Select the releases tab on the side and follow the instructions for the latest release.

Alternatively, you can enter the "Releases" folder, then enter the folder of the latest release and manually download "cowfetch" and "Makefile". Then open a terminal in the containing folder of the latter once downloaded, and type sudo make install.

Congratulations! Cowfetch is now installed and you can brag about it to all your friends.

Latest commit

git clone https://github.com/bradeythedev/cowfetch
cd cowfetch
sudo make install

Congratulations! The best and dodgiest fetch out there is now installed on your system!

Usage

Flags and options

-h  Show the help, license and about menus
-s  Don't print software info
-i  Don't print hardware info
-c  Show the available colours
-d  Debugging mode

Uninstall

To uninstall the program open a terminal and type sudo make uninstall.

Notes

Uses some GNU core utils and xprop to work.

This program is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

If you encounter any issue or want a feature to be added please open an issue on this GitHub page (and on https://github.com/JhonnyRice/cat-fetch if you wish)

TODO

Key: Priority, Next in line, In doubt

  • Fix GPU fetching
  • DE
  • Terminal
  • Theme
  • Icons
  • Config file for fancy colours (sick)
  • Config file for configurable cow (sicker)

Contributors

Me Owner of this fork

Guy who made cowsay (I'll find a link eventually)

JhonnyRice Owner of Cat-fetch-reborn

Francicoria Wrote half of the code

SpyLima Created the install.sh

Viper Suggested using a makefile instead of install.sh

Kazoku Perfected the wm detection scipt, adding wayland support and making it way shorter

Alberto Salvia Novella Created the original Xorg WM detection script