Brrtfetch is an animated system information fetcher written mainly in Go.
It displays the user specified GIF rendered as animated ASCII art alongside the system information from your favourite fetcher.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Render animated GIFs as colorful ASCII art directly in your terminal.
- Side-by-side system information via fastfetch, neofetch, or your fetcher of choice. I have only tested with fastfetch, neofetch and hyfetch. Hyfetch requires a small workaround and even then it’s still a bit buggy with hyfetch. See examples below.
- True color (24-bit ANSI) support with optional white monochrome mode via -color=false.
- Multithreaded prerendering for smooth playback.
- Configurable:
- Width / height to render at
- FPS to render at (impacts animation speed)
- Brightness multiplier (controls density of ASCII mapping)
- Vertical offset for aligning sysinfo height relative to ASCII art
- Attempts to preserves ANSI color codes from sysinfo commands (broken for hyfetch and Windows CMD/Powershell. WSL does show color for the sysinfo. Only tested this with Ubuntu for WSL).
Website: github.com/ferrebarrat/brrtfetch
Support:
Developer: ferrebarrat
License: MIT License
Brrtfetch is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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