Suggestion/Request: Include a precompiled Fastfetch install in "regular repos"

Feedback Feature Request
#1

I’ve been enjoying fastfetch over neofetch when showing off my system info on Reddit, etc on various systems. It displays additional “stuff” over Neofetch (photo attached).

(Yeah I enjoy it enough to finally stop lurking and to create an account to discuss :slight_smile: )

(It is written in C as well)

Additional info:

  • Packages: shows branch (stable, unstable, testing)
  • Resolution: shows refresh rate
  • DE: displays full point release
  • WM: shows X11 vs Wayland
  • Theme: Includes GTK4 theme info
  • Icons: Includes GTK4 icon info
  • Font: not included in neofetch
  • Cursor: not included in neofetch
  • Terminal Font: (formatted more cleanly)
  • GPU: shows actual GPU instead of vendor. Shows secondary GPU (if available)
  • RAM/Memory: shows percentage utilized
  • Disk: not available in neofetch; shows utilization and percent
  • Battery: not available in neofetch; shows remaining charge
  • Locale: not available in neofetch

This is where I tried to embed the photo with the tools on this forum. I can’t. I then uploaded to imgur via the screenshot upload utility. Apparently I can’t include that link either. You can find the link at i dot imgur dot com slash tOZfsVR.png All links at own risk of course… but… its literally imgur

As you can see by the feature comparison listed and displayed: Fastfetch is a comprehensive system display tool which serves the purpose of listing the majority of system information needed when either troubleshooting an issue or when showing off a “rice” of a system.

It is written in pure C, though for such a small utility the speed concern does not seem to be huge (though on the Pinephone it is definitely a noticeable difference).

While using Fastfetch on systems after configuring and benchmarking with Phoronix’s benchmarking tools, I am able to include a screenshot of fastfetch instead of needing to use a combo of neofetch and inxi.

It can prove to be a more detailed replacement for neofetch, a tool to use to supplant inxi + neofetch, or yet another visual tool with more info to use in addition to inxi, lshw, or your other favorite system information display utilities.

TL;DR: Has lotsa cool info and is zippy-zoom-diddly-splendid!

#2

The AUR package is done by @Yochanan - out team member and community manager. He might have reasons why he did not included it already in the repos, so is fine if you build it via his package …

#3

see with inxi -Fza ( or inxi -Full -v8 )

#4

Thanks! I have already built it via the AUR, where I’ve also tried build it on Manjaro32-Mogrified-Arch32 (was unsuccessful) but also installed it on Arch proper in a VM.

So I’m guessing it is in the AUR so that it can be installed everywhere, rather than just Manjaro?

I guess my request was for it to be more “mainstream” as its a lot cleaner than neofetch, but the aur is easy enough. I suppose anyone wanting neofetch would be willing to take the extra step to get fastfetch.