screenFetch

Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.

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Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.

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Observed mentions: 2013-07-29 16:15:59 UTC to 2021-07-24 16:10:40 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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woodruffw·Jul 24, 2021

> I particularly enjoyed this function that returns the ASCII-art logo for the current platform I wonder how much of it is copied from screenfetch[1], which (I believe) is the "grandfather" for a lot of these kinds of information viewers. I wrote my own version of screenfetch[2] a very long time ago, and I'm pretty sure I just ripped their ASCII-art directly :-) [1]: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/blob/c3a47890441166... [2]: https://github.com/woodruffw/screenfetch-c

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Pete_D·Sep 4, 2016

You might like to compare with the detection code in screenFetch: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

In Ask HN: Unix system version information

NotUncivil·Jul 29, 2013

The list of (supposedly substantial) things /g/ has made as compiled by /g/, today [1], is as follows: 1. http://aloonix.neocities.org/ 2. https://github.com/notuncivil/host-as-image [2] 3. https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch 4. https://4chan-x.just-believe.in/ 5. http://tox.im/ 6. http://biebian.sourceforge.net/ The above list is in no particular order. [1] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S35615929#p35616305 [2] Full disclosure: this code is mine and I am the one who proposed it for that list. I also submitted a Show HN for it.

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