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4 conky \- A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but more kickass. It just keeps on given'er. Yeah.
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14 Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
15 Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's predecessor.
16 Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in it's own window.
17 Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts,
18 then display the output from stdout.
20 We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a developer is welcome.
21 Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
23 Thanks for your interest in Conky.
25 For users compiling from source, make sure you have the X development libraries installed.
26 This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".
28 Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage... simply use "emerge app-admin/conky" for installation.
29 There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within Conky's package or in CVS.
31 Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by mid-September, hopefully), and then
32 Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.
34 Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system):
36 \fBsh autogen.sh\fR \fB# Only required if building from CVS\fR
38 \fB\&./configure \fR\fB\-\-prefix=/usr \-\-mandir=/usr/share/man \-\-infodir=/usr/share/info \-\-datadir=/usr/share \-\-sysconfdir=/etc \-\-localstatedir=/var/lib \-\-enable\-xft \-\-enable\-seti \-\-enable\-double\-buffer \-\-enable\-own\-window \-\-enable\-proc\-uptime \-\-enable\-mpd \-\-enable\-mldonkey \-\-enable\-x11 \-\-enable\-portmon\fR
42 \fBmake install\fR \fB# Optional\fR
46 Conky probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
47 It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99.
48 It uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strncasecmp(),
49 optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89). Crashes in file system
50 statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't know exactly why.
52 You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need it by passing
53 --disable-own-window to configure -script.
56 Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects in
57 Conky are harder on resources then others. In particular, the $tail,
58 $top, $font, and $graph objects are quite costly in comparison to the rest of Conky.
60 If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
61 unless you think something's seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
63 An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1 conky".
64 Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart.
66 IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the metar stuff.
67 mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
69 Command line options override configurations defined in configuration file.
72 Prints version and exits
75 \fB\-a \fR\fBALIGNMENT\fR
76 Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom}_{left,right} or none
80 Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker")
84 Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc
88 Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background
96 Prints command line help and exits
100 Create own window to draw
104 Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
107 \fB\-u \fR\fBSECONDS\fR
111 \fB\-w \fR\fBWIN_ID\fR
115 \fB\-x \fR\fBX_COORDINATE\fR
119 \fB\-y \fR\fBY_COORDINATE\fR
122 .SH "CONFIGURATION SETTINGS"
123 Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
124 conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from Debian package,
125 this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gunzip conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
127 You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
128 Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
131 Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bottom_left, bottom_right, or none
135 Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when started
139 Set conky on the bottom of all other applications
143 Border margin in pixels
147 Border width in pixels
150 \fBcpu_avg_samples\fR
151 The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring
155 Default color and border color
158 \fBdefault_shade_color\fR
159 Default shading color and border's shading color
162 \fBdefault_outline_color\fR
163 Default outline color
167 Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recommended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be so big.
171 Draw borders around text?
174 \fBdraw_graph_borders\fR
175 Draw borders around graphs?
187 Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font
191 Gap between right or left border of screen, same as passing -x at command line
195 Gap between top or bottom border of screen, same as passing -y at command line
199 Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
203 Mail spool for mail checking
206 \fBmaximum_width\fR \fBpixels\fR
207 Maximum width of window
210 \fBminimum_size\fR \fBwidth (height)\fR
211 Minimum size of window
214 \fBmldonkey_hostname\fR
215 Hostname for mldonkey stuff, defaults to localhost
219 Mldonkey port, 4001 default
223 Mldonkey login, default none
226 \fBmldonkey_password\fR
227 Mldonkey password, default none
242 \fBnet_avg_samples\fR
243 The number of samples to average for net data
246 \fBoverride_utf8_locale\fR
247 Force UTF8? requires XFT
251 Boolean, create own window to draw?
254 \fBown_window_transparent\fR
255 Boolean, set pseudo-transparency?
258 \fBown_window_colour\fR \fBcolour\fR
259 If own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
263 Print text to stdout.
267 Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
270 \fBstippled_borders\fR
271 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
274 \fBtotal_run_times\fR
275 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero makes Conky run forever
278 \fBupdate_interval\fR
279 Update interval in seconds
283 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
287 Adds spaces after certain objects to stop them from moving other things around. Note that this only helps if you are using a mono font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
291 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
294 \fBmin_port_monitors\fR
295 Allow for the creation of at least this number of port monitors (if 0 or not set, default is 16)
298 \fBmin_port_monitor_connections\fR
299 Allow each port monitor to track at least this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
303 After this begins text to be formatted on screen
306 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
307 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also,
308 http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html [http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html].
309 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex).
310 Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really
311 means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
313 \fBaddr\fR \fBinterface\fR
314 IP address for an interface
318 ACPI ac adapter state.
326 ACPI temperature in C.
330 ACPI temperature in F.
334 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
338 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
341 \fBalignr\fR \fB(num)\fR
342 Right-justify text, with space of N
345 \fBalignc\fR \fB(num)\fR
350 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
353 \fBapm_battery_life\fR
354 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
357 \fBapm_battery_time\fR
358 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
359 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
362 \fBbattery\fR \fB(num)\fR
363 Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
367 Artist in current BMPx track
371 Album in current BMPx track
375 Title of the current BMPx track
379 Track number of the current BMPx track
383 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
387 URI of the current BMPx track
391 Amount of memory buffered
395 Amount of memory cached
398 \fBcolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
399 Change drawing color to color
402 \fBcpu\fR \fB(cpuN)\fR
403 CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be provided as an argument. cpu0 is the total usage, and >=cpu1 are individual CPUs.
406 \fBcpubar\fR \fB(cpu number) (height),(width)\fR
407 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See $cpu for more info on SMP.
410 \fBcpugraph\fR \fB(cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)\fR
411 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See $cpu for more info on SMP.
415 Displays current disk IO.
418 \fBdiskiograph\fR \fB(height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
419 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
422 \fBdownspeed\fR \fBnet\fR
423 Download speed in kilobytes
426 \fBdownspeedf\fR \fBnet\fR
427 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
430 \fBdownspeedgraph\fR \fBnet (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
431 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
435 Text to show if any of the above are not true
438 \fBexec\fR \fBcommand\fR
439 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warning: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
442 \fBexecbar\fR \fBcommand\fR
443 Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value between 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future.
446 \fBexecgraph\fR \fBcommand\fR
447 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
450 \fBexeci\fR \fBinterval command\fR
451 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
454 \fBexecibar\fR \fBinterval command\fR
455 Same as execbar, except with an interval
458 \fBexecigraph\fR \fBinterval command\fR
459 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
462 \fBfont\fR \fBfont\fR
463 Specify a different font. Only applies to one line.
467 Returns CPU frequency in MHz
471 Returns CPU frequency in GHz
475 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64.
479 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64.
482 \fBfs_bar\fR \fB(height),(width) fs\fR
483 Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system. height is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
486 \fBfs_free\fR \fB(fs)\fR
487 Free space on a file system available for users.
490 \fBfs_free_perc\fR \fB(fs)\fR
491 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
494 \fBfs_size\fR \fB(fs)\fR
498 \fBfs_used\fR \fB(fs)\fR
499 File system used space
502 \fBhead\fR \fBlogfile lines (interval)\fR
503 Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
506 \fBhr\fR \fB(height)\fR
507 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
510 \fBi2c\fR \fB(dev), type, n\fR
511 I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev may be omitted if you have only one I2C device. type is either in (or vol) meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp/tempf (first in C, second in F) meaning temperature. n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
514 \fBi8k_ac_status\fR \fB\fR
515 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by i8k itself.
518 \fBi8k_bios\fR \fB\fR
519 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
522 \fBi8k_buttons_status\fR \fB\fR
523 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
526 \fBi8k_cpu_temp\fR \fB\fR
527 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
530 \fBi8k_cpu_tempf\fR \fB\fR
531 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in farenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
534 \fBi8k_left_fan_rpm\fR \fB\fR
535 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in reverse order.
538 \fBi8k_left_fan_status\fR \fB\fR
539 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in reverse order.
542 \fBi8k_right_fan_rpm\fR \fB\fR
543 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in reverse order.
546 \fBi8k_right_fan_status\fR \fB\fR
547 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in reverse order.
550 \fBi8k_serial\fR \fB\fR
551 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
554 \fBi8k_version\fR \fB\fR
555 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
558 \fBif_running\fR \fB(process)\fR
559 if PROCESS is running, display everything if_running and the matching $endif
562 \fBif_existing\fR \fB(file)\fR
563 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif
566 \fBif_mounted\fR \fB(mountpoint)\fR
567 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between if_mounted and the matching $endif
574 \fBlinkstatus\fR \fBinterface\fR
575 Get the link status for wireless connections
579 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
583 Machine, i686 for example
587 Mail count in mail spool. You can use program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using your favourite protocol. See also new_mails.
591 Amount of memory in use
594 \fBmembar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
595 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
599 Total amount of memory
603 Percentage of memory in use
607 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
611 Album in current MPD song
614 \fBmpd_bar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
615 Bar of mpd's progress
619 Bitrate of current song
623 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
627 Title of current MPD song
643 Percent of song's progress
647 Random status (On/Off)
651 Repeat status (On/Off)
655 Prints the MPD track field
659 Unread mail count in mail spool.
666 \fBoutlinecolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
670 \fBpre_exec\fR \fBshell command\fR
671 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything and puts output as text.
675 Total processes (sleeping and running)
678 \fBrunning_processes\fR
679 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
682 \fBshadecolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
686 \fBstippled_hr\fR \fB(space)\fR
687 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
690 \fBswapbar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
691 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
695 Amount of swap in use
703 Percentage of swap in use
707 System name, Linux for example
710 \fBtcp_portmon\fR \fBport_begin port_end item (index)\fR \fI(ip4 only at present)\fR
711 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
713 count - total number of connections in the range
715 rip - remote ip address
717 rhost - remote host name
719 rport - remote port number
721 lip - local ip address
723 lhost - local host name
725 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
727 The connection index provides you with access to each connection in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for index values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values higher than n-1 are simply ignored. For the "count" item, the connection index must be omitted. It is required for all other items.
731 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} -
732 displays the number of connections in the bittorrent port range
734 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} -
735 displays the remote host ip of the first sshd connection
737 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} -
738 displays the remote host ip of the tenth sshd connection
740 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} -
741 displays the remote host name of the first connection on a privileged port
743 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} -
744 displays the remote host port of the fifth connection on a privileged port
746 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} -
747 displays the local service name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
749 Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a single port range for different items and different indexes all use the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids creating redundant monitors.
751 \fBtexeci\fR \fBinterval command\fR
752 Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updating. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the interval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi.
755 \fBoffset\fR \fB(pixels)\fR
756 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
759 \fBtail\fR \fBlogfile lines (interval)\fR
760 Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
763 \fBtime\fR \fB(format)\fR
764 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format
767 \fBtotaldown\fR \fBnet\fR
768 Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has already done that before conky has started.
771 \fBtop\fR \fBtype, num\fR
772 This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically, processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu usage, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name", "pid", "cpu", and mem". There can be a max of 10 processes listed.
775 \fBtop_mem\fR \fBtype, num\fR
776 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
779 \fBtotalup\fR \fBnet\fR
780 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
783 \fBupdates\fR \fBNumber of updates\fR
787 \fBupspeed\fR \fBnet\fR
788 Upload speed in kilobytes
791 \fBupspeedf\fR \fBnet\fR
792 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
795 \fBupspeedgraph\fR \fBnet (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
796 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
804 Uptime in a shorter format
808 Seti@home current progress
811 \fBseti_progbar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
812 Seti@home current progress bar
816 Seti@home total user credit
819 \fBvoffset\fR \fB(pixels)\fR
820 Change verticle offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset.
824 conky \fB\-t '${time %D %H:%m}' \-o \-u 30\fR
825 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30 sec update interval.
827 conky \fB\-a top_left \-x 5 \-y 500 \-d\fR
828 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
830 \fB~/.conkyrc\fR default configuration file
832 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
833 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
834 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
835 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
836 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in Conky
837 to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree useful to
838 find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument which makes
839 Conky to create its own window.
841 http://conky.sourceforge.net [http://conky.sourceforge.net]
843 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky]
845 #conky on irc.freenode.net
847 The Conky dev team. What's up now!