While they fix what appears to be a bug, so you can display the logo of your distribution in Neofetch

neofetch --ascii_distro xubuntu

A few weeks ago, I asked Kubuntu what was wrong with neofetch that did not show the logo of the distribution. And I had looked for images on the net and had seen how, for example, Ubuntu Budgie did show it, but Kubuntu showed the Ubuntu logo, as you can see for yourself from the terminal. Rik from the KDE Community showed me that no, the rest of the Ubuntu flavors also have this problem, but in the past they did not.

At the very least, until Ubuntu 17.10, Neofetch worked perfectly. When we wrote the command, it looked for the distribution information and it showed the correct logo and colors, but something is wrong since then (or some later version) and now look at the base of the operating system. Since Kubuntu and the other flavors are based on Ubuntu, what the normal command displays is the Ubuntu logo. It has been Xubuntu on the social network Twitter who has taught us a trick, one that a server does not like too much but can be useful if what we want is to share screenshots on social networks.

Neofetch will show the logo of the distro you want with this command

Although it is not what we would like, because we have to remember the command and because it is just a trick, it works. What we have to do is put, after «neofetch», "–Ascii_distro distribution_name", without the quotes and changing "name_of_the_distribution" by the name of the one we are using. As you can see, it works, and we can use the same command if we want the logo of any other distribution to be seen. For example, we will see the Xubuntu logo in Kubuntu if we write what we see in the previous tweet.

According to Rik, the fault is Neofetch's, but I can't agree 100% because screen fetch has the same problem. And, since Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu has changed something that has made this type of software unable to read the distribution information and the Neofetch / Screenfetch developers have not managed to find the key two years later.

neofetch on kubuntu

In any case, it is a trick that only serves to see the logo, since Ubuntu still appears in the operating system section and not the name of the distro, as you can see that it did happen in Ubuntu 17.10 in a shared image in monksblog-malspa.blogspot.com. But hey, less is nothing.


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