Randomly select fastfetch config

[doctorfree]

I have several fastfetch configs and wrote a simple script to randomly select among them. To use this script the configuration files must be named ~/.config/fastfetch/config-<name>.jsonc. Without arguments ffetch displays using the default config. To select a random config, run ffetch -r. To specify a config, run ffetch -c config-<name>.

Enjoy!

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# ffetch - Display system info using fastfetch or neofetch
#          Random configuration selection assumes configs are named:
#            'config-*` in ~/.config/fastfetch/ or ~/.config/neofetch/
#          Use fastfetch if found, otherwise use neofetch
#
# Author: Ronald Joe Record <[email protected]>
#
# Usage: ffetch [-c config] [-r] [-u]
# Where:
# 	-c 'config' specifies a configuration file to use
# 	  'config' can be the full path or name of a configuration
# 	-r indicates select configuration file randomly
# 	-u displays this usage messge and exits

FETCH="fastfetch"
have_fetch=$(type -p fastfetch)
[ "${have_fetch}" ] || {
  have_fetch=$(type -p neofetch)
  if [ "${have_fetch}" ]; then
    FETCH="neofetch"
  else
    printf "\nCannot locate fastfetch. Exiting.\n\n"
    exit 1
  fi
}

CONFDIR="${HOME}/.config/${FETCH}"

usage() {
  printf "\nUsage: ffetch [-c config] [-r] [-u]"
  printf "\nWhere:"
  printf "\n\t-c 'config' specifies a configuration file to use"
  printf "\n\t   'config' can be the full path or name of a configuration"
  printf "\n\t-r indicates select configuration file randomly"
  printf "\n\t-u displays this usage messge and exits\n\n"
  exit 1
}

get_rand() {
  # We use Bash for the array manipulation
  configs=()
  for conf in ${CONFDIR}/config-*
  do
    [ "${conf}" == "${CONFDIR}/config-*" ] && continue
    configs+=("${conf}")
  done

  # Seed random generator
  seconds=$$$(date +%s)
  USE_CONFIG=${configs[${seconds} % ${#configs[@]}]}
}

USE_RANDOM=
USE_CONFIG=
while getopts ":c:ru" flag; do
  case $flag in
    r)
      USE_RANDOM=1
      ;;
    c)
      USE_CONFIG="$OPTARG"
      ;;
    u)
      usage
      ;;
    \?)
      echo "Invalid option: $flag"
      usage
      ;;
  esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND - 1 ))

[ "${USE_RANDOM}" ] && [ "${USE_CONFIG}" ] && {
  printf "\nIncompatible options: -r cannot be used with -c config. Exiting.\n\n"
  exit 1
}

tput clear
export TERM=xterm-kitty

[ "${USE_RANDOM}" ] && get_rand
# Locate the config if specified or randomly selected
[ "${USE_CONFIG}" ] && {
  [ -f "${USE_CONFIG}" ] || {
    if [ -f "${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}" ]; then
      USE_CONFIG="${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}"
    else
      if [ -f "${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}.jsonc" ]; then
        USE_CONFIG="${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}.jsonc"
      else
        if [ -f "${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}.conf" ]; then
          USE_CONFIG="${CONFDIR}/${USE_CONFIG}.conf"
        else
          USE_CONFIG=
        fi
      fi
    fi
  }
}

# Use exec to pickup the user's login shell
if [ "${USE_CONFIG}" ]; then
  exec ${FETCH} --config ${USE_CONFIG} $*
else
  exec ${FETCH} $*
fi

[Samueru-sama]

You may want to replace CONFDIR="${HOME}/.config/${FETCH}" for CONFIGDIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/${FETCH}"" as fastfetch is XDG Base dir compliant.

Yes I have XDG Vigilante as my nickname lol.

[doctorfree]

Done (with slight corrections). Good suggestion. Folks might also need to worry about my use of xterm-kitty as TERM.

The ffetch script, fastfetch configs, and other user configuration are maintained in yadm repos at https://github.com/doctorfree/dotfiles-macbookpro and https://github.com/doctorfree/dotfiles-linux

[BhlBig]

bravo

[Flinner]

I used this:

I could make it more robust by listing from fastfetch --list-data-paths
and then listing all files find $(fastfetch --list-data-paths) -type f, then shuffling. But I like one liners

Get a random preset

fastfetch --config $(printf "%s\n" examples/{6,7,9,13,17,20,21,22} | shuf -n 1)