Neofetch - Configuration and Customization!

hello everybody this is techcutt and in this video what i'm going to be doing is getting a little bit deeper into the application neofetch now i have featured this plenty of times on the channel before it's a cool little utility you just type neofetch in the terminal it displays that pretty little uh text based logo of your distribution as well as a lot of other system information so on my system here i'm going to go down and actually open up my terminal and you can see that this is what loads here let's go uh ctrl shift and zoom in this as you can tell does not look like the traditional neofetch you are to expect the mangjaro logo is a little bit different and i've taken out a lot of the system information from what is displayed by default so what i'll do is i'm going to show you how to actually customize this and run the neo fetch command when you first open up the terminal so the very first thing before we get into the neo fetch configuration i'm going to show you how to make it so that the actual command neofetch runs when you do first open up the terminal so here i am in my home directory uh depending what system you're using you can use the i think it's ctrl h command to show hidden files this is a hidden file within your home directory or depending on what file manager you're running you just go to the menu and make sure you're seeing the hidden files from there you're going to want to go down and open up the bat dot bash rc file once you open that up you are greeted with this configuration right here i'm going to zoom in real quick just so you can see it all a little bit better so what you're going to want to do when you open this up is scroll all the way to the bottom and then just type in the command you'd like to run and what this will do is it'll run that command on startup you can see i have neo fetch here just for example purposes let's say i um this is what it'll look like by default so i go return return and then you type in the command you want um demonstration purposes let's just do ls save that and then if i open up my terminal you can see that the ls command is the command that is ran at default but i want it to be neofetch so i'm going to type neofetch go to file save and then i open up my terminal and then we can see that neo fetch is the command that has ran and you could do multiple commands too you just return and then type the command you want but that is how you do that so now let's get into the actual configuration of neofetch so we're going to go ahead close this out go back into our home directory and then from here we're going to go into a folder called dot config i'm going to open that up and then we're going to go into a folder called neofetch here you will have a config.conf file go ahead and open that up with your preferred text editor i am currently using kate so i'm going to quickly resize this and zoom in so you can see what's going on here right here we have the print info you can see on mine i have this little asterisk um right before it i'm gonna go ahead and change this all to what it was by default so if i go ahead and get rid of these you can see that there's a info uptime info packages info shell info window manager window manager theme uh themes icons terminal uh terminal font and i had memory up there so now if i go ahead and go file save this and open up my terminal again you can see it's starting to display the information that you would normally expect it to when you open up neofetch just putting that little hashtag in front just like this will block out that and make it so it does not display so you can pick and choose what information it actually displays so now we can see that it has the uptime packages shell resolution dewm and all that stuff there below there's even more options so if you're on a laptop you can have the battery life you can have it display what font so if i went ahead and added this let's say we wanted our local ip address and our users so you could really have it display a lot of information i'm going to save that open up our terminal and then you can see now all the different information displays including the default font i'm using on my system my current local ip address and the user that i'm on so that's how you actually change what information displays another thing that's really cool is if we go down you go through and actually change a lot more settings than just that right here for example it's uptime you can see that most of these settings are blocked out but you can go ahead and go into the wiki page for this and actually go more into this and change that if you see fit but we're going to go ahead and scroll down all the way near the bottom and right here we see the asi distro now this is what will display for the image so if i open up my terminal again real quick you can see this is the manjaro logo i have displayed and if i go back to that and scroll down to the bottom of this and you can see right here is set to manjaro small if i'm to take out the word small for example and file save that open up my terminal again you can see it is the manjaro logo that you would normally expect and you could go ahead and just type a command to display all this i think the shortcode was actually in here so right here if we go ahead and grab this it's the ascii i'm probably saying that wrong underscore distro go back over here and we'll go neo fetch zoom in here real quick so you all can see it better paste that in and then let's say ubuntu let's see the ubuntu logo and then it will display the ubuntu text logo they have so that's one way to go through and actually see all the different things available and there is a whole list of everything they have here including some extra options so for example if i go down to the notes it says that the uh arch ubuntu red hat a couple others have old logo variants so if you do this room name underscore old you could see those so let's see that for the ubuntu one we just did so let's do underscore old hit enter and then you can see the old ubuntu logo that they had in there and no matter what system you're running you go ahead and change this right here so just for example let's play around and say i wanted to do arch which i believe is in here just to make sure uh that it's not yep just normal arch with a cap so if i typed arch save to this file and then went into my terminal and then ran the neo fetch command you can see that it displays it with their arch logo and then if i wanted to do arch old which i believe it has the old version of that run that command again we have the old arch logo so for me i'm just going to switch this back to how i had it which was the manjaro small just like that and you could go ahead and actually read through this configuration file there's a lot of cool things that you could do including changing the colors around you can customize and change just about anything with this neofetch display personally i like it to be fairly minimal kind of how i had it in the beginning with just a few lines with the small logo it makes opening up the terminal just look better adds a little bit of flair to the terminal so that about covers our little uh introduction tutorial 2 messing with the configuration file of neofetch as well as getting into the bash rc and having it run when you open the terminal i hope you enjoyed it and i hope you learned something this channel is heavily supported by you guys so make sure you're subscribed leave a comment like the video and if you want to go above and beyond support me on patreon there'll be a link down below it will truly mean the world to me and there'll be exclusive content you'll get a shout out things like that other than that i hope you have a beautiful day there will be more content to come and if you've noticed there's a whole different background going on here it's all still in the works i'm getting everything moved over to a new location so you might see this changing every so often that's about it i hope you have a beautiful day and goodbye

Channel: TechHut

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Keywords: linux, linux tutorial, desktop enviorment, neofetch, linux terminal, linux bash, terminal tutorial

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Length: 8min 44sec (524 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 13 2020