Macchina

About Macchina

Macchina is a fetching program, not a library. But you can use the functions it relies on to extract system data in your own program.

It lets you view basic system information, like your hostname, your kernel version, memory usage, and much more. No one wants a slow fetcher, and macchina's main goal is to provide you with handy features while keeping performance a priority.

If Macchina fails to display certain elements, or their output is incorrect, please create an issue.

Benchmarks

Macchina is pretty fast, see for yourself:

• Execution time is measured using hyperfine

| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative | |:---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | macchina | 22.2 ± 0.7 | 21.0 | 25.1 | 1.00 | | neofetch | 243.9 ± 2.3 | 240.0 | 246.9 | 11.01 ± 0.37 |

Summary: macchina runs 11.01 ± 0.37 times faster than neofetch

• Note that hiding elements using Macchina's --hide significantly improves speed

Features

Macchina displays basic system information such as:

• Host
  • Username
  • Hostname
• Product
  • Manufacturer
  • Model name
• Distribution
• Desktop Environment
• Kernel version
• Package count
• Shell
• Terminal
• Processor
  • Model name
  • Frequency
  • Thread count
• Uptime
• Memory
  • Used / Total
• Battery
  • Percentage
  • Status
• Palette

Package count: Pacman only, as it will print 0 for distributions that use any other package manager. Support for other package managers is on its way.

Macchina supports the following arguments:

--no-color / -n - Disable colors

--color / -c <color> - Specify the key color

--separator-color / -C <color> - Specify the separator color

--random-color / -r - Let Macchina pick a random color for you

--palette / -p - Display palette

--short-sh / -s - Shorten shell output (/bin/zsh -> zsh)

--hide / -H <element> - Hide elements such as host, os, kern, etc.

--bar / -b - Display memory usage and battery percentage as bars

--theme / -t <theme_name> - Specify the theme to use

--padding / -P <amount> - Specify the amount of (left) padding to use

--spacing / -S <amount> - Specify the amount of spacing to use

--help / -h - Print help text

--version / -v - Print version

Installation

Macchina is available on:

• AUR

  Install using your favorite AUR helper or by running: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/macchina.git cd macchina makepkg -si

• crates.io

  Install using cargo: cargo install macchina

Platform Support

| Platform | Support | | :-: | :-: | | Linux | X | | BSD | ? | | MacOS | | | Windows | |

Cells containing X: Macchina supports that platform

Cells containing ?: Macchina has not been tested yet on that platform

Empty cells: Macchina does not support that platform