Conveniently read system information with inxi-gui Who Am I?

Inxi gives users a comprehensive inventory of their system hardware – but only at the command line. Inxigui, a graphical front end, makes things a little more convenient.

- Erik Bärwaldt

The inxi command-line program provides detailed information about most of a computer’s hard-ware components. To display the desired data, however, you need to pass in parameters to inxi in a terminal window. Inxi-gui [1], a small graphical front end for inxi [2] by the developers of the Korean-based HamoniKR Linux distribution (for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their derivatives), makes the whole process easier and faster.

Installation

To integrate inix-gui with your system, you can use the two commands from Listing 1. These commands simultaneously create a starter, which you can then click to run the program. Shortly, inxi-gui welcomes you with a self-explanatory interface without any gimmicks, listing various options one below the other (Figure 1).

To call up information, you just need to activate the radio button to the left of an option you are interested in and then press OK. Besides calling inxi as its basic underpinnings, the inxi-gui front end also relies on various system utilities, each of which appears in the Command column with its parameters.

After enabling some commands, you may need to authenticate yourself as an administrator. Then, inxi-gui shows you the information for that specific command in the same window. You can save the data by pressing Save or return to selection mode by pressing Cancel.

Listing 1: Installation