6 conky - A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but
7 more kickass. It just keeps on given'er. Yeah.
13 Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
14 Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's
15 predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your
16 root desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects,
17 as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display
18 the output from stdout.
20 We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a de-
21 veloper is welcome. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make
22 bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
24 Thanks for your interest in Conky.
27 For users compiling from source, make sure you have the X development
28 libraries installed. This should be a package along the lines of
29 "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".
31 Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage... simply use "emerge app-
32 admin/conky" for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date
33 ebuild within Conky's package or in Svn.
35 Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by
36 mid-September, hopefully), and then Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until
37 then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.
39 Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note
40 that some configure options may differ for your system):
42 sh autogen.sh # Only required if building from Svn
44 ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --in-
45 fodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --local-
46 statedir=/var/lib --disable-own-window --enable-audacious --enable-bmpx
47 --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd --enable-xmms2 --disable-portmon --dis-
48 able-network --enable-debug --disable-x11 --disable-double-buffer
49 --disable-xdamage --disable-xft
53 make install # Optional
57 Conky probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
58 It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
59 uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-
60 casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89).
61 Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't
64 You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need
65 it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script.
69 Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects in
70 Conky are harder on resources then others. In particular, the $tail,
71 $top, $font, and $graph objects are quite costly in comparison to the
74 If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
75 unless you think something's seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
77 An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1
78 conky". Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart.
80 IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the
81 metar stuff. mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully
82 there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
85 Command line options override configurations defined in configuration
89 Prints version and exits
93 Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom}_{left,right} or none
96 -b Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker")
100 Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc
103 -d Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background
110 -h Prints command line help and exits
113 -o Create own window to draw
117 Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
136 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
137 Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
138 conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from De-
139 bian package, this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gunzip
140 conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
142 You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying
143 it. Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
146 Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot-
147 tom_left, bottom_right, or none
151 Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when
156 Border margin in pixels
160 Border width in pixels
163 color0 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
166 color1 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
169 color2 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
172 color3 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
175 color4 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
178 color5 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
181 color6 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
184 color7 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
187 color8 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
190 color9 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
194 The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring
198 Default color and border color
201 default_outline_color
202 Default outline color
206 Default shading color and border's shading color
210 Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom-
211 mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be
216 Draw borders around text?
220 Draw borders around graphs?
231 font Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font
234 gap_x Gap, in pixels, between right or left border of screen, same as
235 passing -x at command line, e.g. gap_x 10
238 gap_y Gap, in pixels, between top or bottom border of screen, same as
239 passing -y at command line, e.g. gap_y 10.
242 imap Default global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
243 interval] [-f folder] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is
244 143, default folder is 'INBOX', default interval is 5 minutes.
245 If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to en-
246 ter the password when Conky starts.
250 Mail spool for mail checking
253 max_port_monitor_connections
254 Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections
255 (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
259 Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns,
260 etc. (default is 512)
264 Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout below TEXT line in
265 config file (default is 16384 bytes)
268 text_buffer_size bytes
269 Size of the standard text buffer (default is 1280 bytes).
273 Maximum width of window
276 minimum_size width (height)
277 Minimum size of window
293 The number of samples to average for net data
297 Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
301 Force UTF8? requires XFT
305 Boolean, create own window to draw?
309 Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to "Conky".
312 own_window_colour colour
313 If own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour
314 (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a
315 valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
318 own_window_hints undecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
319 If own_window is yes, you may use these window manager hints to
320 affect the way Conky displays. Notes: Use own_window_type desk-
321 top as another way to implement many of these hints implicitly.
322 If you use own_window_type override, window manager hints have
323 no meaning and are ignored.
327 Manually set the window name. Defaults to "<hostname> - conky".
330 own_window_transparent
331 Boolean, set pseudo-transparency?
335 if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop or
336 override (default: normal). Desktop windows are special windows
337 that have no window decorations; are always visible on your
338 desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky
339 across all workspaces. Override windows are not under the con-
340 trol of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type of win-
341 dow can be useful for certain situations.
345 Print text to stdout.
349 Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
352 pop3 Default global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
353 interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default
354 interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you
355 will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
359 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
363 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero
364 makes Conky run forever
368 Update interval in seconds
372 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
376 Adds spaces after certain objects to stop them from moving other
377 things around. Note that this only helps if you are using a mono
378 font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
382 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
386 Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0.
393 TEXT After this begins text to be formatted on screen
397 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
398 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html>.
399 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). Note that when displaying
400 bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes
404 IP address for an interface
408 ACPI ac adapter state.
416 ACPI temperature in C.
420 ACPI temperature in F.
424 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
428 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
432 Right-justify text, with space of N
440 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
444 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
448 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
449 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
452 audacious_bar (height),(width)
457 Bitrate of current tune
461 Number of audio channels of current tune
465 Full path and filename of current tune
469 Sampling frequency of current tune
473 Total length of current tune as MM:SS
476 audacious_length_seconds
477 Total length of current tune in seconds
480 audacious_playlist_position
481 Playlist position of current tune
484 audacious_playlist_length
485 Number of tunes in playlist
489 Position of current tune (MM:SS)
492 audacious_position_seconds
493 Position of current tune in seconds
497 Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running)
500 audacious_title (max length)
501 Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier
505 Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM
506 battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default
510 battery_bar (height),(width) (num)
511 Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI bat-
512 tery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
515 battery_percent (num)
516 Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery num-
517 ber can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
521 Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI
522 battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
526 Artist in current BMPx track
530 Album in current BMPx track
534 Title of the current BMPx track
538 Track number of the current BMPx track
542 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
546 URI of the current BMPx track
550 Amount of memory buffered
553 cached Amount of memory cached
557 Change drawing color to color
560 color0 Change drawing color to color0 configuration option
563 color1 Change drawing color to color1 configuration option
566 color2 Change drawing color to color2 configuration option
569 color3 Change drawing color to color3 configuration option
572 color4 Change drawing color to color4 configuration option
575 color5 Change drawing color to color5 configuration option
578 color6 Change drawing color to color6 configuration option
581 color7 Change drawing color to color7 configuration option
584 color8 Change drawing color to color8 configuration option
587 color9 Change drawing color to color9 configuration option
591 CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be
592 provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and
593 ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
596 cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
597 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See
598 $cpu for more info on SMP.
601 cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
603 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See
604 $cpu for more info on SMP.
607 diskio Displays current disk IO.
610 diskiograph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)
612 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is
613 non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
617 Displays current disk IO for reads.
620 diskio_readgraph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
622 Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
623 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
627 Displays current disk IO for writes.
630 diskio_writegraph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
632 Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
633 If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
637 Download speed in kilobytes
641 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
644 downspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
646 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
647 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
650 else Text to show if any of the above are not true
654 Current entropy available for crypto freaks
657 entropy_bar (height),(width)
658 Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks
662 Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks
666 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
667 ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
668 recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
672 Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value be-
673 tween 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the
674 bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future.
678 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
681 execi interval command
682 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
683 than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
686 execibar interval command
687 Same as execbar, except with an interval
690 execigraph interval command
691 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
695 Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the cur-
696 rent line and everything following. You can use a $font with no
697 arguments to change back to the default font (much like with
702 Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
703 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
707 Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
708 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
712 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to
713 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
718 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to
719 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
723 fs_bar (height),(width) fs
724 Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system. height
725 is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
729 Free space on a file system available for users.
733 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
741 File system used space
744 goto x The next element will be printed at position 'x'.
747 hddtemp dev, (host,(port))
748 Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported
749 by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is
750 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634.
753 head logfile lines (interval)
754 Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
755 is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
756 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
760 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
763 hwmon N sensor number input
764 This has the ability to display the contents of hwmon files lo-
765 cated under "/sys/class/hwmon/hwmonX/device/N". For example, use
766 ${hwmon 0 temp 1 input} to read the temperature of the CPU (in
767 oC) from "/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/temp1_input". If the
768 sensor name equals "temp", then the value read will be divided
769 by 1000, otherwise the number will be used unchanged. The factor
770 1000 is just for the Abit uGuru sensor.
773 iconv_start codeset_from codeset_to
774 Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs
775 to be stopped with iconv_stop.
779 Stop iconv codeset conversion.
783 I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev may be omitted if you
784 have only one I2C device. type is either in (or vol) meaning
785 voltage, fan meaning fan or temp/tempf (first in C, second in F)
786 meaning temperature. n is number of the sensor. See
787 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
791 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
792 whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
793 human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by
798 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
799 the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
803 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
804 the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
808 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
809 the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
813 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
814 the cpu temperature in Fahrenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
818 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
819 the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
820 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
825 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
826 the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-
827 readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in re-
832 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
833 the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
834 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
839 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
840 the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to hu-
841 man-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
846 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
847 your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
851 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
852 the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
856 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
860 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the IBM
861 temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the
866 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, con-
867 trolled by the volume keys (0-14).
871 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops's
876 if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between
877 $if_empty and the matching $endif
881 if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the
885 if_existing file (string)
886 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the
887 matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE
888 containing the specified string and prints everything between
889 $if_existing and the matching $endif.
892 if_mounted (mountpoint)
893 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted
894 and the matching $endif
898 Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by de-
899 fault. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
900 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
901 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
902 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
903 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
907 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox
908 by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
909 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
910 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
911 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
912 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
915 kernel Kernel version
919 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past
920 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
924 Machine, i686 for example
927 mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use program like fetchmail to
928 get mails from some server using your favourite protocol. See
932 mboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject
934 Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format mailbox.
935 mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be encapsu-
936 lated using '"', ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"}
939 mem Amount of memory in use
942 membar (height),(width)
943 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
946 memmax Total amount of memory
950 Percentage of memory in use
954 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
958 Album in current MPD song
961 mpd_bar (height),(width)
962 Bar of mpd's progress
966 Bitrate of current song
970 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
973 mpd_title (max length)
974 Title of current MPD song
990 Percent of song's progress
994 Random status (On/Off)
998 Repeat status (On/Off)
1002 Prints the MPD track field
1006 Prints the MPD name field
1010 Prints the file name of the current MPD song
1014 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1015 name, depending on whats available
1019 Unread mail count in mail spool.
1026 outlinecolor (color)
1027 Change outline color
1031 If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat-
1032 tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
1033 display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are:
1035 status: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharg-
1036 ing or absent (running on AC)
1037 percent: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or
1038 discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully
1040 time: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully
1041 charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if
1042 battery is absent or if it's present but fully charged and not
1046 platform (dev) type n
1047 Platform sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev may be omitted if
1048 you have only one platform device. type is either in (or vol)
1049 meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp/tempf (first in C, sec-
1050 ond in F) meaning temperature. n is number of the sensor. See
1051 /sys/bus/platform/devices/ on your local computer.
1055 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox
1056 by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by
1057 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
1058 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, de-
1059 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
1060 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
1064 Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global
1065 POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes
1066 seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are:
1067 "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default
1068 port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is
1069 supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when
1073 pre_exec shell command
1074 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything
1075 and puts output as text.
1079 Total processes (sleeping and running)
1083 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
1087 Change shading color
1091 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
1094 swapbar (height),(width)
1095 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
1098 swap Amount of swap in use
1102 Total amount of swap
1106 Percentage of swap in use
1110 System name, Linux for example
1113 tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) (ip4 only at present)
1114 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be
1115 in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
1117 count - total number of connections in the range
1118 rip - remote ip address
1119 rhost - remote host name
1120 rport - remote port number
1121 rservice - remote service name from /etc/services
1122 lip - local ip address
1123 lhost - local host name
1124 lport - local port number
1125 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
1127 The connection index provides you with access to each connection
1128 in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for in-
1129 dex values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values higher than n-1 are
1130 simply ignored. For the "count" item, the connection index must
1131 be omitted. It is required for all other items.
1134 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} - displays the number of connec-
1135 tions in the bittorrent port range
1136 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} - displays the remote host ip of the
1137 first sshd connection
1138 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} - displays the remote host ip of the
1139 tenth sshd connection
1140 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} - displays the remote host name of
1141 the first connection on a privileged port
1142 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} - displays the remote host port of
1143 the fifth connection on a privileged port
1144 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} - displays the local service
1145 name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
1147 Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range
1148 actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin-
1149 gle port range for different items and different indexes all use
1150 the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids
1151 creating redundant monitors.
1153 texeci interval command
1154 Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the
1155 output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a
1156 thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat-
1157 ing. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time
1158 it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a
1159 script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the in-
1160 terval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi.
1164 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
1167 rss url delay_in_minutes action item_num
1168 Download and parse RSS feeds. Action may be one of the follow-
1169 ing: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num
1170 par) and item_titles.
1173 tab (width, (start))
1174 Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column 'start'.
1177 tail logfile lines (interval)
1178 Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
1179 not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
1180 can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
1184 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
1189 Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time).
1192 tztime (timezone) (format)
1193 Local time for specified timezone, see man strftime to get more
1194 information about format. The timezone argument is specified in
1195 similar fashion as TZ environment variable. For hints, look in
1196 /usr/share/zoneinfo. e.g. US/Pacific, Europe/Zurich, etc.
1200 Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
1201 there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has al-
1202 ready done that before conky has started.
1206 This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically,
1207 processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu us-
1208 age, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
1209 "pid", "cpu", and "mem". There can be a max of 10 processes
1214 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
1218 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
1221 updates Number of updates
1226 Upload speed in kilobytes
1230 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
1233 upspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
1235 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
1236 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
1243 Uptime in a shorter format
1247 Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause
1248 text to overlap. See also $offset.
1252 Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
1253 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1257 Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omit-
1258 ted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1262 Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only)
1266 Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only)
1269 wireless_bitrate net
1270 Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only)
1274 Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only)
1277 wireless_link_qual net
1278 Wireless link quality (Linux only)
1281 wireless_link_qual_max net
1282 Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only)
1285 wireless_link_qual_perc net
1286 Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only)
1289 wireless_link_bar (height), (width) net
1290 Wireless link quality bar (Linux only)
1294 Artist in current XMMS2 song
1298 Album in current XMMS2 song
1302 Title in current XMMS2 song
1306 Genre in current XMMS2 song
1310 Comment in current XMMS2 song
1318 Transport plugin used
1322 Full path to current song
1326 Track number in current XMMS2 song
1330 Bitrate of current song
1334 XMMS2 id of current song
1338 Duration of current song
1346 Size of current song
1350 Percent of song's progress
1354 XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected)
1357 xmms2_bar (height),(width)
1358 Bar of XMMS2's progress
1362 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1363 name, depending on whats available
1367 conky -t '${time %D %H:%m}' -o -u 30
1368 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
1369 sec update interval.
1371 conky -a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d
1372 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
1375 ~/.conkyrc default configuration file
1378 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
1379 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
1380 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
1381 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
1382 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in
1383 Conky to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree
1384 useful to find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument
1385 which makes Conky to create its own window.
1388 <http://conky.sourceforge.net>
1390 <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky>
1392 #conky on irc.freenode.net
1395 The Conky dev team. What's up now!