Fastfetch

Fastfetch

Fastfetch output in Windows 11 Pro
Original author(s)	Linus Dierheimer
Initial release	March 20, 2022 (2022-03-20)
Stable release	2.35.0 / January 26, 2025 (2025-01-26)
Repository	https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like, Android, macOS, SunOS, Windows 7 and later
Platform	x86-64, ARM, RISC-V
Predecessor	Neofetch

Fastfetch (known as fastfetch in the command-line) is a command-line tool that displays system information written in C, available in Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD), Android, Windows (Windows 7 and later), macOS and SunOS. It is a Neofetch alternative after Neofetch was discontinued on April 26, 2024.

Naming

The name "Fastfetch" combines "Fast" and "Neofetch", as the name suggests, it is a fast alternative for Neofetch.

Configuration

The Fastfetch configuration is located at ~/.config/fastfetch/config.jsonc. It is formatted as JSONC.

Example

Example of the configuration file, with several disabled modules

{
  "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
  "modules": [
    "title",
    "separator",
    "os",
    "host",
    "kernel",
    "uptime",
    "packages",
    "shell",
    "display",
    "terminal",
    "terminalfont",
    "cpu",
    "gpu",
    "memory",
    "swap",
    "disk",
    "locale",
    "break",
    "colors
  ]
}

Release table

Initial year (2022)

Fastfetch 2022 releases

Version	Date	Notes/bug-fixes
1.0.0	March 20	Initial release, only supported Linux
1.1.0	March 22	Greatly improved detection of media player name
1.1.1	March 23	Fix fastfetch recaching every time if an old cache exists
1.1.2	March 23	Capitalize the first letter of media player if appropriate
1.2.0	March 23	Pretty song output, if the media is a browser playing a video
1.2.1	March 25	Added RPM support
1.2.2	March 25	Released pre-built binaries as tar.gz and zip
1.2.3	March 28	Added OpenSUSE logos
1.3.0	April 22	Image support
1.3.1	April 22	Fix build without ImageMagick enabled
1.3.2	April 23	Fix pre-built .deb package
1.3.3	April 23	Fix pre-built .deb package for real this time
1.3.4	April 27	Using custom logos in terminals that don't support \033[14t or \033[18t once again works Features: Ubuntu flavor detection Kubuntu & Deepin logo
1.4.0	May 23	Features: Display images converted to ASCII art as logo, using chafa Stretch images by using the --logo-height option New logos added: Red Star OS, Rocky Linux and Devuan Bugfixes: Better calculation of image dimensions Better RPM package detection Format uptime right, when hours > 0 and minutes = 0 Only detect themes for installed GTK versions
1.4.1	May 23	Don't prepend proc with TARGET_DIR_ROOT, should make future packaging for Termux simpler
1.4.2	May 24	Bugfixes: RPM package count on SUSE platforms Prepend /var with TARGET_DIR_ROOT
1.4.3	May 24	Detect KDE Plasma version more reliable
1.5.0	June 8	Modules: Vulkan OpenGL and OpenCL Features: Detect Bedrock Linux Detect packages on Bedrock Linux --pipe option Logo for Bedrock Linux Bugfixes: Locale detection on Ubuntu and deriviates Bolt keys and title, if main color is not set
1.5.1	June 8	Fix --print-logos
1.5.2	June 8	Fix build if ImageMagick is not installed
1.5.3	June 8	Enable LTO by default Fix compile bug when LTO enabled
1.5.4	June 19	Features: Better WSL / WSLg support --<module>-error arguments Export much more information to host format string Expose CPU temp to cpu format string Expose GPU temp to gpi format string Added logo for Alpine Linux Detect termux as terminal Bugfixes: Show GiB instad of GB Print the last line of the logo, if it is taller than the info Refactors: Cleaned up header includes Build libfastfetch as OBJECT lib, as the linked binary is never needed
1.5.5	June 26	Detect Wayland WM much faster Bugfixes: Wayland backend for resolution working once again Plasma values are no longer victims to race conditions
1.5.6	July 3	Don't segfault when connecting to some Wayland compositors
1.6.0	July 26	Features: Detect QT on more DEs than just KDE Plasma. The [Plasma] category was therefore renamed to [QT] Alacritty font detection Load /etc/fastfetch/config.conf before user config Disk: print one decimal point if size < 100GB --title-fqdn option, to print fully qualified domain name instead of host name in title Logos: Updated old NixOS logo Bugfixes: Correctly detect GTK on DEs that store their settings in dconf Correctly detect NixOS packages Mutter WM detected once again Show full NixOS version in OS output Don't segfault if an invalid structure is given WSL doesn't output GPU anymore, as the name is always meaningless
1.6.1	July 27	Fixed build error on Android
1.6.2	August 12	Added Void Linux package for Fastfetch Logos added: ROSA Linux KISS Linux LangitKetujuh OS Bugfixes: Using musl as libc does work now XBPS packages are once again printed Configured target directories are applied to install directories too Empty XDG_* environment variables don't cause a crash anymore
1.6.3	August 12	Fixes installing presets in their own directory
1.6.4	August 22	Added Fedora package for Fastfetch. Features: --set-keyless option Replace \n, \t, \e and \\ in user provided strings, just like C would do it APK (Alpine Package Keeper) support Logos: AlmaLinux Bugfixes: Replace deprecated gethostbyname call with getaddrinfo
1.6.5	August 22	Fixes parsing quoted values in config files
1.7.0	September 6	Added support for Darwin (macOS). Features: The binary prefix used can now be configured, and is used consistently across all modules. Set --binary-prefix to iec (default), si or jedec. AMD GPUs now have a much better name, if the file /usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids exists. Logos added: macOS CachyOS (small) MSYS2 Bugfixes: The --file option, which can be used to display the contents of a file as the logo, is now working again.
1.7.1	September 15	Features: The color of the title and the keys can now be configured individually, using --color-keys and --color-title respectively. Some distributions have different defaults now, similar to neofetch Swap module, similar to the Memory module, but for swap. Logos added: Slackware Bugfixes: Used disk space is now calculated much more accurately On Linux, GPU names are no longer truncated, if they are longer than 32 characters On Linux, NVIDIA GPUs once again have a proper name On M1 platforms, showing the GPU name no longer crashes the program Brew package count does now work on M1 platforms too The Vulkan module now does work on macOS too The OpenGL and OpenCL modules now work on macOS too The LocalIp module now works on macOS too Detecting custom WMs on macOS does now work Other: GitHub Actions now builds a .dmg file for macOS
1.7.2	September 15	Fixes the Bash completions
1.7.3	October 9	Added support for FreeBSD. Features: MacPorts package manager support Battery support for MacOS Processes, swap & terminal font support for MacOS Song support for MacOS Player support for MacOS WM theme support for MacOS CPU usage support for MacOS Power Adapter module Windows terminal font for WSL Temps & Font support for MacOS Terminal font support for Termux Weather module Logos added: Crystal Linux FreeBSD New Ubuntu logo Bugfixes: Don't segfault in GPU code on Intel Macs Don't use hardcoded size units in presets Don't crash with some format strings --logo-none keeps key color now
1.7.4	October 10	The last element in the default structure (currently the color blocks) is now printed again
1.7.5	October 11	Fixed a crash on Linux that could occur when retrieving the zsh version
1.8.0	December 29	Added support for Microsoft Windows. Notable changes: BIOS / Board / Chassis modules are split against Host module for performance reasons Caching is removed. Option --nocache is removed accordingly Features: FreeBSD support is improved greatly (BIOS, CPU Temp, CPU Usage, Disk, Host, Processes, Swap, Terminal / Shell, Uptime) Adds a new flag --stat, which prints time usage for individual modules Adds WiFi module which supports Windows and macOS Adds data source option for logo printing Detects Homebrew Cellar and Cask separately Detects WSL version Detects disk based on mount point Exposes more chafa configs Improves performance for CPU Usage, Public IP, Weather modules Improves performance for Kitty image protocol when both image width / height specified Improves performance for large file loading Improves performance for macOS WM and Host detection Improves shell and terminal detection on macOS Supports Deepin Terminal terminal font Supports GPU detection on Android Supports Kitty Terminal terminal font Supports bar output for percentage values Supports BIOS module on macOS Supports eopkg package manager detection Supports iTerm image logo protocol Supports image logo printing on macOS Supports tcsh version detection Vulkan module on macOS no longer requires vulkan-loader to work Logos added: Alpine CRUX EndeavourOS Enso Garuda small Nobara OpenMandriva Parabola GNU/Linux-libre Rocky Rosa Solus Univalent Vanilla OS Bugfixes: Fixes disk size detection on 32-bit Linux Fixes CPU freq detection in WSL Fixes internal bug of FFstrbuf Fixes some memory leaks Fixes segfault if 0 is given as argument index Lots of code refactors
1.8.1	December 30	Notable Changes: Song was used as an alias to Media module. It's removed to avoid confusion. All song related flags (--song-key, etc) should change to media (--media-key, etc). Bugfixes: Mount point paths on Linux get decoded correctly Color parsing once again works Using a custom key with a placeholder for the local IP module now does work correctly if multiple interfaces are present
1.8.2	December 31	Bugfixes: Fix memleaks Users module (Windows) Fix shell detection when installed with scoop (Windows) Don't use libcJSON as wlanapi's dll name (Windows) Align artifact names to other platforms (Windows)

2023 1.x.x releases

Fastfetch 2023 1.x.x releases (table not finished yet)

Version	Date	Notes/bug-fixes
1.9.0	January 22	Notable changes: fastfetch no longer creates a sample config file silently. Use --gen-config to generate one. fastfetch now search for user config file in the order of fastfetch --list-config-paths Unknown disks are hidden by default. Resolution module is renamed to Display. Features: --logo-padding-top option Raw image file as logo support Look for config files in $APPDATA (RoamingAppData) (Windows) Look for config files in ~/Library/Preferences (macOS) Add --list-config-paths option which list search paths of config files Add --list-data-paths option which list search paths for presets and logos Add Brightness module support Add Battery module support for FreeBSD Add --disk-show-unknown option for Disk module Add --disk-show-subvolumes option for Disk module Add --gpu-hide-integrated option Add --gpu-hide-discrete option Detect terminal version when available Support WezTerm terminal font detection (requires wezterm executable being available) Add --shell-version and --terminal-version options to disable shell / terminal version detection Enhance --percent-type to allow hiding other texts Add WiFi module support for Linux Detect scaled resolutions (Windows, macOS) Optimize font module printing (Windows) Detect pacman package count inside MSYS2 environment (Windows) Add WiFi / Battery module support for Android Disk name support for Linux Logos added: Raspbian (@IamNoRobot, #373) Bugfixes: --logo-type now does accept iterm too (@CarterLi, #374) Fix mintty terminal font detection (Windows) Fix bug that line buffering doesn't work properly (Windows) Fix rpm package count detection (Linux) Fix CPU temp detection (Linux) Other: Fixed a Typo in iTerm error message Don't try to load config file in /etc (Windows)
1.9.1	January 24	Bugfixes: Fix builds on s390x Fix zero refresh rate on some monitors (macOS) Fix default formatting of WiFi module
1.10.0	February 21	Notable Changes: With the support of Win32 platform, original Windows 64bit artifact file is renamed to Win64 to avoid possible confusion Features: Bluetooth module Sound module Game-pad module Support colored percentage numbers output Support --localip-compact-type option Terminator terminal font detection Windows 32bit compatibility Support global configuration in MSYS2 environment (Windows) Support GPU driver version detection on Windows 11 Support scaled resolution detection for Wayland (Linux) Bugfixes: Fix build with older libnm versions Fix a rare case that fails to detect terminal Fix Muffin detection Fix IPv6 detection (Windows) Fix scoop package count detection when scoop is installed in non-default path (Windows) Fix UB reported by clang Honor $SCOOP when detecting scoop packages Other: Simplified WM theme output format (Windows) Improved GPU detection performance on Windows 11 Latest Mac model identifier support (macOS)