Fastfetch: Step-by-step tutorial to learn how to customize it

Yesterday, we published our first article called Fastfetch: What is it and how can we use it on Debian? And in it, as its name expresses, we talk for the first time in detail about the increasingly well-known and used CLI utility for managing the Fetch of the Linux Terminal, «Fastfetch ».

And just as we promised in it, now we offer you a first tutorial on using and customizing Fastfetch. In which, we hope to indicate, step by step, the most basic and essential actions and explanations to get started in its use and customization. Since, in the previous publication, we only addressed what it was, how it was installed and run directly, and with its default configuration. Apart from, recommend a Top 10 of the best and most popular Fetch CLI utilities. Which are currently taken into account to replace the use of Neofetch, whose development is currently available.

But, before starting with this useful and quick Tutorial on the “Fastfetch” CLI utility, which is ideal for those passionate about customizing Linux Terminals, we recommend exploring a previous related post with this same series of publications, at the end of it:

fastfetch is a tool similar to neofetch to retrieve system information and display it in a nice and much faster way. It is primarily written in C, keeping in mind better performance and a higher level of customization. Currently, they are supported on operating systems based on Linux, Android, FreeBSD, MacOS and Windows 7+. Official website on GitHub

Fastfetch – Tutorial 1: Step by step to get to know it and customize it

Step by Step Fastfetch Tutorial: Essential Command Orders

Once Fastfetch is installed on your GNU/Linux Distro, as with Neofetch, you can run it just by typing its name, since both come with a very useful default configuration.

But, for the particular case of Fastfetch, these are 10 command commands that you should know and try to start squeezing the potential of said tool and achieve ideal customization on your free and open operating system:

Step 01: Standard Execution

command order: fastfetch

Step 02: Validate installed version

command order: fastfetch -v

Step 03: Consult help menu (configuration and customization options)

command order: fastfetch -h

Step 04: Consult operating manual (configuration and customization options with more details)

command order: man fastfetch

Step 05: Show configuration and customization options information

command order:

fastfetch --list-config-paths: Lists the search paths for configuration files.

fastfetch --list-data-paths: List of search paths for presets and logos.

fastfetch --list-logos: Lists the available logos of the different operating systems.

fastfetch --list-modules: Lists the different modules available to show in the Fetch.

fastfetch --list-presets: List of pre-configurations that Fastfetch knows and offers.

fastfetch --list-features: List of supported features that are currently compiled.

Step 06: Create a configuration and customization file for the current user

command order:

fastfetch --gen-config-force

Step 07: Test, include and display the correct logo of our current operating system

command order:

fastfetch -l MX

Step 08: Load and display a different data format (presets)

command order:

fastfetch -c hardware

command order:

fastfetch -c hardware - l MX

command order:

fastfetch -c software -l MX

command order:

fastfetch -c paleofetch -l MX

command order:

fastfetch -c neofetch -l MX

Step 09: Save the correct logo, default or custom, of our GNU/Linux Distro

command order:

fastfetch -l MX --gen-config-force

fastfetch --file /rutas_directorios/archivo_logo.ansi.txt --gen-config-force

Step 10: Edit preset files

This is ideal for learn how to configure our personal configuration file, taking as an example the “presets” files included.

Summary

In short, we hope this first Fastfetch usage and customization tutorial you liked it and it was useful, so start customizing it and using it on your different GNU/Linux Distros possessed In such a way that it shows the best and greatest amount of useful information to work on the Terminal. Also, to surprise others in the long-awaited days of celebration of showing the personalized Linux Desktops. And if you are one of those who already uses Fastfetch and have some customization tips or tricks that are worth knowing, we invite you to mention them via comments. In order to increase the knowledge of our entire passionate Linuxverse Community (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux) about this tool.

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