A Linux tool for displaying basic system and environment information in a summarised format. It is a *fetch clone (similar to neofetch, fastfetch, etc.) without complex or customisable art and less fields, but also significantly faster than most alternatives. It is primarily written for use with SHORK Operating Systems like SHORK 486, designed suitable for use on a wide range of hardware going back to the 486 era. But it works on modern Linux systems just fine.
shorkfetch also has a focus on providing clean CPU and GPU name reporting, especially for vintage hardware and Intel integrated graphics. Data sources available for such can have too generic or 'messy' names, thus shorkfetch is designed to help address this.
shorkfetch is young, and I would love to hear from you if you have tried shorkfetch and found that (in particular) the DE, WM and/or GPU fields were incorrect or imprecise, or in your opinion, were overly verbose, containing marks like "(R)", "TM", etc. and could likely be shortened without compromising understanding. Feel free to create an issue here or contact me via email, Discord (@sharktastica) or Reddit (u/sharktastica), and I will take your feedback on board! Please include a screenshot of your shorkfetch's output, some context about your system's real specifications, and especially the result of echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for DE/WM related reports.
shorkfetch is available on the AUR.
yay -S shorkfetch
This assumes you already have the prerequisites for compilation already installed.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SharktasticA/shorkfetch/refs/heads/main/install.sh | bash
You just need a C compiler (tested with GCC with either glibc or musl) and make installed.
Simply run make to compile shorkfetch. There are some flags you can use individually or together to add styling to shorkfetch. Note that if you switch between compiling with or without any of the flags, you will need to run make clean before compiling again.
shorkfetch has an accent colour it uses for the ASCII art, field titles, the username and the hostname. You can compile with a specific accent colour by using the COL flag with one of the available colour names; for example, make COL=MAGENTA. BOLD_CYAN is the default and used as a fallback if a given colour name is invalid.
BLACK BLUE CYAN GREEN
MAGENTA RED WHITE YELLOW
GREY BOLD_BLUE BOLD_CYAN BOLD_GREEN
BOLD_MAGENTA BOLD_RED BOLD_WHITE BOLD_YELLOW
Whilst the accent colour can be turned off when running with the -nc/--no-col argument, you can also permanently disable it by compiling with COL=OFF instead.
shorkfetch has pre-programmed ASCII art normally intended for use with SHORK Operating Systems. Whilst this can be hidden when running with the -na/--no-art argument, you can also permanently disable it when compiling by using the NO_ART flag with any value assigned to it; for example, make NO_ART=1.
Run make install to install to /usr/bin (you may need sudo if not installing as root). If you want to install it elsewhere, you can override the install location prefix like make PREFIX=/usr/local install. You may include the COL and/or NO_ART flags as well.
If you experience errors with building shorkfetch statically, you can modify the Makefile to comment out or delete the line LDFLAGS += -static to build dynamically instead.
Usage: shorkfetch [OPTIONS]
-b,--bullets: Uses bullet points instead of field headings; can also be used to specific a custom character-ca,--categories: Groups and divides similar fields with dashed lines-c,--compact: Compacts field names (if not using bullets) and field values-f,--fields: Allows you to specify which fields to show via a comma-separated list (os,krn,...)-h,--help: Shows help information and exits-na,--no-art: Disables the SHORK ASCII art (if compiled with art support)-nc,--no-col: Disables all coloured output (if compiled with colour support)-v,--version: Displays version number and exits
These are possible field names you can use with the --fields argument. The feature does not support using them to specify field order (yet).
os: OSkrn: Kernelupt: Uptimepkgs: packagesscn: Screen(s)de: Desktop environmentwm: Window manager and/or Wayland compositortrm: Terminal emulator/console sizesh: Shellcpu: CPUgpu: GPU(s)ram: RAMswap: Swap sizeroot: Root partition sizelip: Local IP
