How do I change how one of the values looks in fastfetch?

[Scotty-Trees]

Greetings,

Under "Packages" fastfetch used to show my packages with just the total number of packages/flatpaks on my system. I guess after a recent update now it's added additional info to the packages part of my fastfetch and says this: Packages: 2243 (rpm), 124 (flatpak-system), 1 (flatpak-user)

I'd like to get right of the flatpak-system flatpak-user part. I just would like to show the number of packages rpm/flatpak and that's it, nothing in parenthesis. Anyone know how I could do that I would greatly appreciate it, thank you.

Here is my current jsonc file if that helps, please let me know what I can add to change it, thanks again.

{
  "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
      "display": {
        "size": {
            "maxPrefix": "MB",
            "ndigits": 0
        },
        },
  "modules": [
    "title",
    "separator",
    {
            "type": "os",
            "format": "{3}"
        },
    "host",
    {
            "type": "kernel",
            "format": "{2}"
        },
    "uptime",
    "packages", 
    "shell",
    {
            "type": "display",
            "compactType": "original",
            "key": "Resolution"
        },
    "de",
    "wm",
    "wmtheme",
    "theme",
    "icons",
    "terminal",
      {
            "type": "cpu",
            "format": "{1}"
        },
    {
            "type": "gpu",
            "format": "{2}"
        },
    "memory",
    "break",
    "colors",
    "break",
    "break"
  ]
}

As you can see above under "Packages" I'd like to remove/hide the flatpak-system part if I could.

[CarterLi]

It's always been like this. It didn't show flatpak-system and flatpak-user because you didn't have flatpak user packages.

[Scotty-Trees]

This is what my fastfetch looked like back in April, showing "only (rpm) and (flatpak). I just want to shorten it to what I currently have if I can so there is no text runoff in my windowed mode. Just curious is there no way to change it to look like this again? Btw, thanks for the super quick reply back, loving fastfetch so so much 🥇

tl;dr
Change this: Packages: 2243 (rpm), 124 (flatpak-system), 1 (flatpak-user)
To this: Packages: 2243 (rpm) 124 (flatpak)

[CarterLi]

Just uninstall the flatpak user package

[CarterLi]

Or you can play with --packages-format. See fastfetch -h packages-format

[Scotty-Trees]

I apologize I'm not a coder at all, just trial and error and I'm already getting a bit stuck trying to change the format value in the json. I changed it to this in the packages portion and now I seem to have lost half of my fastfetch:

    "uptime",
    "packages",
    {
            "format": "{4}"
        },
    "shell",

I do have backups, but not sure how to proceed and I don't believe I have a flatpak user package to even uninstall as far as I'm aware. Thanks again for your kind help trying to help me figure this out.

[CarterLi]

I don't believe I have a flatpak user package to even uninstall as far as I'm aware

What does flatpak list --user print?

[Scotty-Trees]

scott@fedora:~$ flatpak list --user
Name                    Application ID           Version        Branch
Déjà Dup Backups        org.gnome.DejaDup        49~alpha       beta
scott@fedora:~$ 

The Deja Dup dev released an alpha for testers and I wanted to see if I could help test/bug report in anyway so I have the Flathub beta repo at the moment while testing the beta Deja Dup.

[froux07]

Hi @Scotty-Trees ,
Try that for your packages :
{
"type": "packages",
"format": "{5} rpm , {14} Flatpak"
},

[CarterLi]

A new option will be introduced to show only combined package counts in the next version, so users dont have to struggle with the format string.

[Scotty-Trees]

A new option will be introduced to show only combined package counts in the next version, so users dont have to struggle with the format string.

Awesome to hear, definitely would appreciate it and thanks again for all your help too!