ssleert/nitch

nitch - incredibly fast system fetch written in nim

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zstd compressed mind

I'm too lazy to develop anything, so during work hours
I write this readme on github, thinking I'm the coolest developer on earth.
At the same time I'm thinking about how nice it would be to take this cute girl
out for a walk or something.

If you still think I'm a good developer,
you've probably met a very arrogant me on one of the discord servers,
furiously trying to prove a completely unviable theory or some other unnecessary bullshit.

discord & telegram: slugonme @ssleert

some of my code examples

Dude, do you really think I'm going to brag about my code?

nitch's Issues

Used Memory

Hi,
Just want to say you have an excellent job on nitch, But as you probably already know, there are different versions on how used memory should be displayed, I did notice on nitch that it takes TotalMem - AvailableMem to get UsedMem. I just wanted to make you aware of the formula that htop uses and which has derived from a write up on Kernel.org
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

basically htop originally used MemUsed = MemTotal - MemFree - Cached - Buffers - SReclaimable + Shmem

Then some patches made it in the kernel changed the way SharedMem and Cached are calculated, I haven't personally read the patch notes https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
but it basically comes down to Shmem being part of cache so the accepted formula and the one htop uses is
MemUsed = MemTotal - MemFree - Cached - Buffers - SReclaimable

I have implemented this is my fetch program written Pascal

// Get Memory and usage
function GetRamUsage(): string;
var
  strTmp, strMemTotal, strMemFree, strShmem, strBuffers, strCached,
  strSRclaimable: string;
  intMemUsage, intTotalMem: single;
  slMemInfo: TStringList;
begin
  Result := 'Error';
  // Set the name of the file that will be read
  slMemInfo := TStringList.Create;
  try
    slMemInfo.LoadFromFile('/proc/meminfo');
    try
      // Process MemTotal
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[0];
      strMemTotal := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'MemTotal:', 'kB'));

      // Process MemFree
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[1];
      strMemFree := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'MemFree:', 'kB'));

      // Process Buffers
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[3];
      strBuffers := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'Buffers:', 'kB'));

      // Process Cached
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[4];
      strCached := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'Cached:', 'kB'));

      // Process Shmem
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[20];
      strShmem := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'Shmem:', 'kB'));

      // Process SReclaimable
      strTmp := slMemInfo.Strings[25];
      strSRclaimable := Trim(ExtractString(strTmp, 'SReclaimable:', 'kB'));

      // Calc Mem Total
      intTotalMem := StrToFloat(strMemTotal);

      // Calc Mem Usage
      intMemUsage := (intTotalMem - StrToFloat(strMemFree) - StrToFloat(strBuffers) - 
        StrToFloat(strCached) - StrToFloat(strSRclaimable));
    finally
      slMemInfo.Free;
    end;

  except
    on E: EInOutError do
      writeln('File handling error occurred. Details: ', E.Message);
  end;

  Result := Format('%.2fGB / %.2fGB', [intMemUsage / (1024 * 1024), intTotalMem / (1024 * 1024)]);
end;

I am not saying you should change your formula, just making you aware of the accepted formula used at htop, everyone seems to have a different opinion on this particular topic, and it goes into a lot more discussion at kernel.org and htop github, hope this helps, if not disregard and deleted the topic.

fyi,
programs like btop uses the same formula as nitch, but they are aware of htop and the kernel.org discription
aristocratos/btop#161

Add a release for the new version

The version in nitch.nimble has been upgraded to 0.2.2, but the release tag is still at 0.1.6. We need to bump the release version, or else people or package maintainers won't know a new version is out.

[Feature] Alpine support

Currently alpine doesn't have an ascii art.
I don't particularly need it, I modified the default nitch ascii art so it spells "Alpine" and changed the color, but it would be nice to have by default.

The setup script uses sudo, so if you have doas you need to modify it

Add option for a custom ASCII art or using together with Cowsay

Hi,

will it be possible to add an option to use a custom ASCII art or just use Cowsay in place of the Linux distro's name? Something like point 7 in this guide:
https://itsfoss.com/using-neofetch/

Some Nerdfont icons not appearing.

I am using the JetBrains Mono Nerdfont.
Here's the font part of my alacritty config:
`font:
normal:
family: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono
style: Regular

bold:
family: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono
style: Bold

italic:
family: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono
style: Italic`

cannot open: /etc/hostname [IOError]

Hi,
After the installation (according to README), I couldn't execute nitch due to the following error:

> nitch
io.nim(759)              open
Error: unhandled exception: cannot open: /etc/hostname [IOError]

FYI, my environment:
os: Arch Linux
kernel: 5.18.15-arch1-1

And, I have etc/hosts on my computer, but not /etc/hostname.

could not import: SSL_get_peer_certificate

This error occurs when trying to manually build or install nitch from the AUR.

Make the uptime more clear

This might be an intended feature, but I think the uptime is being displayed confusingly. I think you should make it simply display in an HH:MM format.

and no single screenshot

some ppl just want to see world burn

Add Garuda ASCII Art

I'd love to have the Garuda ASCII Art.

I have trouble finding the config files and logo files to manually add it myself.

Exec format error

If I run nitch after the quick installation it gives me this error:
-bash: /usr/local/bin/nitch: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
Has to do with my arm computer. Would be great, if you could make it working for it too!

Almalinux && Rocky

hi, add plz Almalinux && Rocky ASCII art

EndeavourOS logo didn't work, because of misspelling

In the logo file (nitch/src/assets/logos.nim), the name EndeavourOS is misspelled, so if I run nitch it just shows the nitch logo.

Add a --no-ascii flag to remove the ASCII art

Can colors show the 16 colors of terminal?

I want colors to show the 16 ANSI colors of terminal.

I tried to add fgBrightRed in addition to the default fgRed, but it's undeclared identifier.
What is the name for the base08 -- base0F?

feature request : arm64 support

seems nim doesn't have arm64 support?

Void Linux logo

pkgs

nitch isn't displaying the packages correctly on gentoo.

it says pkgs: >3

using st terminal

Images in README missing

Images were probably uploaded using GitHub's uploader and for whatever reason have disappeared.

One fix would be to push a branch containing the necessary screenshots and link them from there to the main branch's README. This way the images should be persistent without being checked out by everyone who clones the repo.

Incorrect package count on NixOS

Always shows as 1

EOF error

io.nim(156) raiseEOF
Error: unhandled exception: EOF reached [EOFError]

after installing using the script in the readme on opensuse tw (without nerd fonts)

version: `GLIBC_2.34` not found (required by nitch)

I have a minimal debian install (CLI only at the moment) and when I try to run nitch it tells me the error in the title. I guess I'm missing a package?

Wrong packages count on Gentoo

❯ nitch -v
nitch - 0.1.5

---

❯ eix -cI | wc -l
1362

---

❯ ls -d /var/db/pkg/*/* | cut -f "5" -d "/" | wc -l
1241

Building nitch locally uses different font used than official build..

Building locally uses a different font..

This is the font with official build ..

While this is the font used in local build..

Here is my Alacritty config..

Can anyone help me with this? is there any fix for this?

official both builds show with different font than local build