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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-16 05:26:28 -05:00
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README 

beastie - minimal system fetch
================================

Minimal system info tool for BSD. Displays info side-by-side with
ASCII art. Named after the BSD daemon mascot.

Reads hardware/OS info via sysctlbyname(3).
WM detection uses xprop(1) at runtime if MOD_WM is enabled.


EXAMPLE OUTPUT
--------------

                         %@                realdaemon@daemon-box
            %#            @##
           %#@    @%%%%%%@%%##@            os     FreeBSD 15.0
          @%%##@%%%%%@######%##            kernel MinKern
           %%%###%%%%#   @@ @#             cpu    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4910MQ
            %%%%%%%%##    @ @#@            uptime 2h 21m
              @%%%%%##   @@#@@#            mem    2086M / 16237M
               %%%%####  @@#####           shell  sh
               %%%%%%#####%##@## *:        term   st
                @%%%#@######%#@ :  :@      wm     dwm
                  %%%%%%###@ @# @:@  @:    disk   5.3G / 890.0G
                  %%######   %#@           pkgs   541 (pkg)
                 @%%@##@###@%%##@          res    1920x1080
                 %%%##%####@%@@
                 @%%%%%%%%%@
                 @%@::%@@%##@
                @%:@%%%####@
              @%%%@@%@:@%:#
         @%%%%%@ @+ :-:@@:::@@@
   %##@@          %::::::#     .   @
  %%@  %@          @           @
     @@%####


CONFIGURATION
-------------
Edit config.h and recompile. Configurable:

  COLOR_ART    ANSI color for the ASCII art
  COLOR_USER   ANSI color for the user@host header
  COLOR_LABEL  ANSI color for info labels
  ART_W        Visual width of the widest art line (must be accurate)
  ART[]        The ASCII art, one line per string


BUILD AND INSTALL
-----------------
  make
  doas make install

Installs to /usr/local/bin/beastie. Override PREFIX to change.


REQUIREMENTS
------------
  BSD: base system, optionally xdpyinfo(1) for wm vendor detection