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[=yes|no|lega-
47 cy] --enable-bmpx --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd --enable-xmms2 --dis-
48 able-portmon --disable-network --enable-debug --disable-x11 --dis-
49 able-double-buffer --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. You
79 can now also do the same with SIGHUP.
81 IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the
82 metar stuff. mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully
83 there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
86 Command line options override configurations defined in configuration
90 Prints version and exits
93 -a | --alignment=ALIGNMENT
94 Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom}_{left,right} or none
98 Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker")
102 Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc
106 Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background
114 Prints command line help and exits
118 Create own window to draw
122 Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
125 -u | --interval=SECONDS
129 -w | --window-id=WIN_ID
141 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
142 Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
143 conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from De-
144 bian package, this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gunzip
145 conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
147 You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying
148 it. Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
151 Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, top_mid-
152 dle, bottom_left, bottom_right, bottom_middle, middle_left, mid-
153 dle_right, or none (also can be abreviated as tl, tr, tm, bl,
158 Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when
163 Border margin in pixels
167 Border width in pixels
170 color0 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
173 color1 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
176 color2 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
179 color3 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
182 color4 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
185 color5 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
188 color6 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
191 color7 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
194 color8 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
197 color9 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
201 The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring
205 If true, cpu in top will show usage of one processor's power. If
206 false, cpu in top will show the usage of all processors' power
211 Default color and border color
214 default_outline_color
215 Default outline color
219 Default shading color and border's shading color
223 Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom-
224 mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be
229 Draw borders around text?
233 Draw borders around graphs?
244 font Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font
247 gap_x Gap, in pixels, between right or left border of screen, same as
248 passing -x at command line, e.g. gap_x 10
251 gap_y Gap, in pixels, between top or bottom border of screen, same as
252 passing -y at command line, e.g. gap_y 10.
255 imap Default global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
256 interval] [-f folder] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is
257 143, default folder is 'INBOX', default interval is 5 minutes.
258 If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to en-
259 ter the password when Conky starts.
263 Mail spool for mail checking
266 max_port_monitor_connections
267 Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections
268 (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
272 Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns,
273 etc. (default is 512)
277 Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout below TEXT line in
278 config file (default is 16384 bytes)
281 large_text_buffer_size bytes
282 Size of the standard large text buffer (default is 1024 bytes).
283 This buffer is used for the entirety of Conky's text. Increasing
284 the buffer's size will decrease performance and increase the
285 memory footprint of Conky, but it will allow for more text to be
289 small_text_buffer_size bytes
290 Size of the standard small text buffer (default is 128 bytes).
291 This buffer is used for intermediary text, such as individual
292 lines, output from $exec vars, and various other variables. In-
293 creasing the size of this buffer can drastically reduce Conky's
294 performance, but will allow for more text display per variable.
295 The size of this buffer cannot be smaller than the default value
300 Maximum width of window
303 minimum_size width (height)
304 Minimum size of window
319 music_player_interval
320 Music player thread update interval (defaults to Conky's update
325 The number of samples to average for net data
329 Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
333 Force UTF8? requires XFT
337 Boolean, create own window to draw?
341 Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to "Conky".
344 own_window_colour colour
345 If own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour
346 (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a
347 valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
350 own_window_hints undecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
351 If own_window is yes, you may use these window manager hints to
352 affect the way Conky displays. Notes: Use own_window_type desk-
353 top as another way to implement many of these hints implicitly.
354 If you use own_window_type override, window manager hints have
355 no meaning and are ignored.
359 Manually set the window name. Defaults to "<hostname> - conky".
362 own_window_transparent
363 Boolean, set pseudo-transparency?
367 if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop or
368 override (default: normal). Desktop windows are special windows
369 that have no window decorations; are always visible on your
370 desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky
371 across all workspaces. Override windows are not under the con-
372 trol of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type of win-
373 dow can be useful for certain situations.
377 Print text to stdout.
381 Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
384 pop3 Default global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
385 interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default
386 interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you
387 will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
391 Shortens units to a single character (kiB->k, GiB->G, etc.). De-
396 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
400 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero
401 makes Conky run forever
405 Update interval in seconds
409 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
413 Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving oth-
414 er things around. Arguments are left, right, and none (default).
415 The old true/false values are deprecated and default to
416 right/none respectively. Note that this only helps if you are
417 using a mono font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
421 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
425 Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0.
432 TEXT After this begins text to be formatted on screen
436 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
437 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html>.
438 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). Note that when displaying
439 bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes
443 IP address for an interface
447 IP addresses for an interface (if one - works like addr). Linux
452 ACPI ac adapter state.
460 ACPI temperature in C.
464 ACPI temperature in F.
468 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
472 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
476 Right-justify text, with space of N
484 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
488 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
492 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
493 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
496 audacious_bar (height),(width)
501 Bitrate of current tune
505 Number of audio channels of current tune
509 Full path and filename of current tune
513 Sampling frequency of current tune
517 Total length of current tune as MM:SS
520 audacious_length_seconds
521 Total length of current tune in seconds
524 audacious_playlist_position
525 Playlist position of current tune
528 audacious_playlist_length
529 Number of tunes in playlist
533 Position of current tune (MM:SS)
536 audacious_position_seconds
537 Position of current tune in seconds
541 Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running)
544 audacious_title (max length)
545 Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier
549 Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM
550 battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default
554 battery_bar (height),(width) (num)
555 Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI bat-
556 tery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
559 battery_percent (num)
560 Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery num-
561 ber can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
565 Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI
566 battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
570 Artist in current BMPx track
574 Album in current BMPx track
578 Title of the current BMPx track
582 Track number of the current BMPx track
586 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
590 URI of the current BMPx track
594 Amount of memory buffered
597 cached Amount of memory cached
601 Change drawing color to color
604 color0 Change drawing color to color0 configuration option
607 color1 Change drawing color to color1 configuration option
610 color2 Change drawing color to color2 configuration option
613 color3 Change drawing color to color3 configuration option
616 color4 Change drawing color to color4 configuration option
619 color5 Change drawing color to color5 configuration option
622 color6 Change drawing color to color6 configuration option
625 color7 Change drawing color to color7 configuration option
628 color8 Change drawing color to color8 configuration option
631 color9 Change drawing color to color9 configuration option
643 CPU architecture Conky was built for
647 CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be
648 provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and
649 ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
652 cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
653 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See
654 $cpu for more info on SMP.
657 cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
659 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See
660 $cpu for more info on SMP.
664 Displays current disk IO. Device is optional, and takes the form
665 of sda for /dev/sda. Individual partitions are allowed.
668 diskiograph (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
670 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is
671 non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
675 Displays current disk IO for reads. Device as in diskio.
678 diskiograph_read (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi-
679 ent colour 2) (scale)
680 Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
681 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as
685 diskio_write (device)
686 Displays current disk IO for writes. Device as in diskio.
689 diskiograph_write (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi-
690 ent colour 2) (scale)
691 Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
692 If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device
697 Download speed in kilobytes
701 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
704 downspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
706 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
707 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
710 else Text to show if any of the above are not true
714 Current entropy available for crypto freaks
717 entropy_bar (height),(width)
718 Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks
722 Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks
726 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
727 ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
728 recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
732 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
733 ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
734 recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch. This
735 differs from $exec in that it parses the output of the command,
736 so you can insert things like ${color red}hi!${color} in your
737 script and have it correctly parsed by Conky.
741 Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value be-
742 tween 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the
743 bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future.
747 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
750 execi interval command
751 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
752 than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
755 execibar interval command
756 Same as execbar, except with an interval
759 execigraph interval command
760 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
764 Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the cur-
765 rent line and everything following. You can use a $font with no
766 arguments to change back to the default font (much like with
771 Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
772 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
776 Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
777 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
781 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to
782 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
787 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to
788 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
792 fs_bar (height),(width) fs
793 Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system. height
794 is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
798 Free space on a file system available for users.
802 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
814 File system used space
817 goto x The next element will be printed at position 'x'.
820 hddtemp dev, (host,(port))
821 Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported
822 by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is
823 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634.
826 head logfile lines (interval)
827 Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
828 is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
829 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
833 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
837 Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omit-
838 ted if you have only one hwmon device. Parameter type is either
839 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Cel-
840 sius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n
841 is number of the sensor. See /sys/class/hwmon/ on your local
845 iconv_start codeset_from codeset_to
846 Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs
847 to be stopped with iconv_stop.
851 Stop iconv codeset conversion.
855 I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted
856 if you have only one I2C device. Parameter type is either 'in'
857 or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Celsius) or
858 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n is number
859 of the sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
863 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
864 whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
865 human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by
870 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
871 the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
875 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
876 the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
880 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
881 the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
885 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
886 the cpu temperature in Fahrenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
890 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
891 the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
892 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
897 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
898 the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-
899 readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in re-
904 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
905 the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
906 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
911 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
912 the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to hu-
913 man-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
918 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
919 your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
923 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
924 the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
928 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
932 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the IBM
933 temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the
938 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, con-
939 trolled by the volume keys (0-14).
943 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops's
948 if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between
949 $if_empty and the matching $endif
953 if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the
957 if_existing file (string)
958 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the
959 matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE
960 containing the specified string and prints everything between
961 $if_existing and the matching $endif.
964 if_mounted (mountpoint)
965 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted
966 and the matching $endif
969 if_smapi_bat_installed (INDEX)
970 when using smapi, if the battery with index INDEX is installed,
971 display everything between $if_smapi_bat_installed and the
976 if INTERFACE exists and is up, display everything between $if_up
977 and the matching $endif
981 Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by de-
982 fault. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
983 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
984 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
985 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
986 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
990 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox
991 by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
992 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
993 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
994 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
995 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
998 kernel Kernel version
1002 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past
1003 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
1007 Machine, i686 for example
1010 mails (mailbox) (interval)
1011 Mail count in the specified mailbox or your mail spool if not.
1012 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. You can use
1013 a program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using
1014 your favourite protocol. See also new_mails.
1017 mboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject
1019 Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format mailbox.
1020 mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be encapsu-
1021 lated using '"', ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"}
1024 mem Amount of memory in use
1027 membar (height),(width)
1028 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
1031 memmax Total amount of memory
1035 Percentage of memory in use
1039 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
1043 Album in current MPD song
1046 mpd_bar (height),(width)
1047 Bar of mpd's progress
1051 Bitrate of current song
1055 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
1058 mpd_title (max length)
1059 Title of current MPD song
1075 Percent of song's progress
1079 Random status (On/Off)
1083 Repeat status (On/Off)
1087 Prints the MPD track field
1091 Prints the MPD name field
1095 Prints the file name of the current MPD song
1099 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1100 name, depending on whats available
1103 new_mails (mailbox) (interval)
1104 Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if not.
1105 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported.
1112 outlinecolor (color)
1113 Change outline color
1117 If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat-
1118 tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
1119 display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are:
1121 status: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharg-
1122 ing or absent (running on AC)
1123 percent: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or
1124 discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully
1126 time: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully
1127 charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if
1128 battery is absent or if it's present but fully charged and not
1132 platform (dev) type n
1133 Platform sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be
1134 omitted if you have only one platform device. Platform type is
1135 either 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp'
1136 (Celsius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter
1137 n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/platform/devices/ on
1138 your local computer.
1142 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox
1143 by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by
1144 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
1145 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, de-
1146 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
1147 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
1151 Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global
1152 POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes
1153 seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are:
1154 "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default
1155 port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is
1156 supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when
1160 pre_exec shell command
1161 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything
1162 and puts output as text.
1166 Total processes (sleeping and running)
1170 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
1174 Change shading color
1178 when using smapi, display contents of the /sys/devices/plat-
1179 form/smapi directory. ARGS are either '(FILENAME)' or 'bat (IN-
1180 DEX) (FILENAME)' to display the corresponding files' content.
1181 This is a very raw method of accessing the smapi values. When
1182 available, better use one of the smapi_* variables instead.
1185 smapi_bat_perc (INDEX)
1186 when using smapi, display the remaining capacity in percent of
1187 the battery with index INDEX. This is a separate variable be-
1188 cause it supports the 'use_spacer' configuration option.
1191 smapi_bat_bar (INDEX),(height),(width)
1192 when using smapi, display the remaining capacity of the battery
1193 with index INDEX as a bar.
1197 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
1200 swapbar (height),(width)
1201 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
1204 swap Amount of swap in use
1208 Total amount of swap
1212 Percentage of swap in use
1216 System name, Linux for example
1219 tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) (ip4 only at present)
1220 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be
1221 in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
1223 count - total number of connections in the range
1224 rip - remote ip address
1225 rhost - remote host name
1226 rport - remote port number
1227 rservice - remote service name from /etc/services
1228 lip - local ip address
1229 lhost - local host name
1230 lport - local port number
1231 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
1233 The connection index provides you with access to each connection
1234 in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for in-
1235 dex values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values higher than n-1 are
1236 simply ignored. For the "count" item, the connection index must
1237 be omitted. It is required for all other items.
1240 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} - displays the number of connec-
1241 tions in the bittorrent port range
1242 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} - displays the remote host ip of the
1243 first sshd connection
1244 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} - displays the remote host ip of the
1245 tenth sshd connection
1246 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} - displays the remote host name of
1247 the first connection on a privileged port
1248 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} - displays the remote host port of
1249 the fifth connection on a privileged port
1250 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} - displays the local service
1251 name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
1253 Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range
1254 actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin-
1255 gle port range for different items and different indexes all use
1256 the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids
1257 creating redundant monitors.
1259 texeci interval command
1260 Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the
1261 output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a
1262 thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat-
1263 ing. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time
1264 it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a
1265 script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the in-
1266 terval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi.
1270 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
1273 rss url delay_in_minutes action item_num
1274 Download and parse RSS feeds. Action may be one of the follow-
1275 ing: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num
1276 par) and item_titles.
1279 tab (width, (start))
1280 Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column 'start'.
1283 tail logfile lines (interval)
1284 Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
1285 not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
1286 can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
1290 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
1295 Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time).
1298 tztime (timezone) (format)
1299 Local time for specified timezone, see man strftime to get more
1300 information about format. The timezone argument is specified in
1301 similar fashion as TZ environment variable. For hints, look in
1302 /usr/share/zoneinfo. e.g. US/Pacific, Europe/Zurich, etc.
1306 Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
1307 there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has al-
1308 ready done that before conky has started.
1312 This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically,
1313 processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu us-
1314 age, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
1315 "pid", "cpu", "mem", and "time". There can be a max of 10 pro-
1320 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
1324 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
1327 updates Number of updates
1332 Upload speed in kilobytes
1336 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
1339 upspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
1341 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
1342 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
1349 Uptime in a shorter format
1353 Number of users logged in
1357 Lists the names of the users logged in
1361 Lists the consoles in use
1365 Lists how long users have been logged in for
1369 Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause
1370 text to overlap. See also $offset.
1374 Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
1375 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1379 Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omit-
1380 ted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1384 Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only)
1388 Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only)
1391 wireless_bitrate net
1392 Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only)
1396 Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only)
1399 wireless_link_qual net
1400 Wireless link quality (Linux only)
1403 wireless_link_qual_max net
1404 Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only)
1407 wireless_link_qual_perc net
1408 Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only)
1411 wireless_link_bar (height), (width) net
1412 Wireless link quality bar (Linux only)
1416 Artist in current XMMS2 song
1420 Album in current XMMS2 song
1424 Title in current XMMS2 song
1428 Genre in current XMMS2 song
1432 Comment in current XMMS2 song
1440 Transport plugin used
1444 Full path to current song
1448 Track number in current XMMS2 song
1452 Bitrate of current song
1456 XMMS2 id of current song
1460 Duration of current song
1468 Size of current song
1472 Percent of song's progress
1476 XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected)
1479 xmms2_bar (height),(width)
1480 Bar of XMMS2's progress
1484 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1485 name, depending on whats available
1489 conky -t '${time %D %H:%M}' -o -u 30
1490 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
1491 sec update interval.
1493 conky -a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d
1494 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
1497 ~/.conkyrc default configuration file
1500 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
1501 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
1502 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
1503 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
1504 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in
1505 Conky to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree
1506 useful to find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument
1507 which makes Conky to create its own window.
1510 <http://conky.sourceforge.net>
1512 <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky>
1514 #conky on irc.freenode.net
1517 The Conky dev team. What's up now!