v4.2

Changes since v4.1

New Features

Modules

• icon_theme: prints the current icon theme for GTK
• cursor_theme: prints the current cursor theme for GTK
• battery: prints the current battery percentage and status

Config syntax

• any invalid escape sequence like "\X" will now just be reduced to "X"
• it is now possible to include "#" and ";" in your config without them counting as a comment, as long as they are enclosed between two " (which should always be true anyway)
• col_block_len was removed, in favor of col_block_str, which contains the entire string that is printed for each color
• col_background was added, which controls whether the background or the background of col_block_str is colored (vs. the foreground)
• bat_status toggles whether the battery status is shown

Command line arguments

• using --logo none will prevent any logo from being displayed
• the debug script can now be used with --no-pip, this won't print the # of packages installed using pip (because of speed concerns)

Other changes

• the number of lines a custom ascii art may have was reduced to 40 (from 47) but the maximum length of each line got increased to 256B (~70% increase in total size)
• the buffer size for single lines has been raised to 1024B
• the cpu architecture will now be printed in brackets (eg: Arch Linux x86_64 -> Arch Linux (x86_64))
• added a logo for Mageia
• added a logo for NixOS
• Terminator will now be shown as terminal
• Trying to use TERM_PROGRAM to find the terminal name

Bug fixes

Noticeable fixes

• Any portion that might have shown white as \e[37m will now use \e[97m
• The amount of packages installed using rpm should now be much faster
• Logo wuoldn't print correctly on EndeavourOS and Asahi Fedora
• not printing "None" as model version (VMware VMs)

Technical fixes

• Reduced the memory usage when not using --ascii (increased when it is used)
• src/info.c was split up into multiple files (in src/info/)
• libcurl is now not used anymore to get the public ip
• the length of logos is calculated on the fly, resulting in lower memory usage

Dependencies

• Termux API is needed to get battery info on Android

New Contributors

• @FelixFourcolor made their first contribution in #49
• @hellfire103 made their first contribution in #81
• @barracuda156 made their first contribution in #85
• @max2000warlord made their first contribution in #90
• @aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou made their first contribution in #98

Full Changelog: v4.1...v4.2