Is it possible to point the logo to a path for random output?

[Ayala]

I think I've seen this functionality but don't see anything in the documentation, also not sure it it was a script or natively supported.

Is there a way to point ff to folder of logos and have it randomly use different .png each time?

TIA!

[CarterLi]

fastfetch --iterm $(ls /path/to/images/*.png | shuf -n 1)

[Ayala]

Thanks but I'm having trouble implementing this. I'm on Mac with iTerm. the command plus the piped shut portion work well enough when run by itself but I can't get it to work with "--iterm" in terminal or in my config, which doesn't make sense.Then again I;m pretty noob.

[CarterLi]

but I can't get it to work with "--iterm" in terminal or in my config

It uses bash syntax. It works only in bash compatible shell, but not in fastfetch config file.

[Ayala]

yeah been learning all day lol, thanks!

[CarterLi]

A new release was cut to permit this syntax in jsonc config file

[Ayala]

This is so awesome. thank you I finally got it to work.

Solution is as you described in your changelog. "source": "$(ls ~/.config/fastfetch/logos/*.png | shuf -n 1)"

[younsl]

When you install Fastfetch for the first time, you won't get a configuration file. So the first step is to generate a simple config file. For this, run the command:

fastfetch --gen-config

By default, a configuration file is created in the $HOME/.config/fastfetch/config.json path.

randomly displays one of all .png files in ~/.config/fastfetch/images/.

Example fastfetch config:

{
  "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
  "logo": {
    "type": "auto",
    "source": "~/.config/fastfetch/images/*.png"
  },
  "modules": [
    "title",
    // ... omitted for brevity ...
    "colors"
  ]
}

Only executes fastfetch command each time the terminal is launched. The necessary options have already been declared in the config file, so no additional flags are needed.

echo "fastfetch" >> $HOME/.zshrc

[CarterLi]

"source": "~/.config/fastfetch/images/*.png" is enough

[younsl]

@CarterLi Oh, there was a more concise way to set it up. I reflected this in my comment.