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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 Svn.
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 Svn\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 \-\-enable\-xmms \-\-enable\-bmp \-\-enable\-audacious \-\-enable\-infopipe \-\-enable\-bmpx \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 Default global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-f folder] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, default folder is 'INBOX', default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
203 Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
207 Mail spool for mail checking
210 \fBmaximum_width\fR \fBpixels\fR
211 Maximum width of window
214 \fBminimum_size\fR \fBwidth (height)\fR
215 Minimum size of window
218 \fBmin_port_monitors\fR
219 Allow for the creation of at least this number of port monitors (if 0 or not set, default is 16)
222 \fBmin_port_monitor_connections\fR
223 Allow each port monitor to track at least this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
226 \fBmldonkey_hostname\fR
227 Hostname for mldonkey stuff, defaults to localhost
231 Mldonkey port, 4001 default
235 Mldonkey login, default none
238 \fBmldonkey_password\fR
239 Mldonkey password, default none
254 \fBnet_avg_samples\fR
255 The number of samples to average for net data
258 \fBoverride_utf8_locale\fR
259 Force UTF8? requires XFT
263 Boolean, create own window to draw?
266 \fBown_window_transparent\fR
267 Boolean, set pseudo-transparency?
270 \fBown_window_type\fR
271 if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop or override (default: normal).
272 Desktop windows are special windows that have no window decorations; are always visible
273 on your desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky across all workspaces.
274 Override windows are not under the control of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type
275 of window can be useful for certain situations.
278 \fBown_window_colour\fR \fBcolour\fR
279 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)
282 \fBown_window_hints\fR \fBundecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager\fR
283 If own_window is yes, you may use these window manager hints to affect the way Conky displays.
284 Notes: Use own_window_type desktop as another way to implement many of these hints implicitly.
285 If you use own_window_type override, window manager hints have no meaning and are ignored.
289 Print text to stdout.
293 Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
297 Default global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
300 \fBstippled_borders\fR
301 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
304 \fBtotal_run_times\fR
305 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero makes Conky run forever
308 \fBupdate_interval\fR
309 Update interval in seconds
313 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
317 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.
321 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
325 Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to "conky".
329 Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0.
337 Use specified player/plugin for the xmms status variables. Valid items are: none, xmms, bmp, audacious and infopipe. (default is none). Note that bmpx is currently handled separately.
341 After this begins text to be formatted on screen
344 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
345 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also,
346 http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html [http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html].
347 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex).
348 Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really
349 means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
351 \fBaddr\fR \fBinterface\fR
352 IP address for an interface
356 ACPI ac adapter state.
364 ACPI temperature in C.
368 ACPI temperature in F.
372 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
376 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
379 \fBalignr\fR \fB(num)\fR
380 Right-justify text, with space of N
383 \fBalignc\fR \fB(num)\fR
388 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
391 \fBapm_battery_life\fR
392 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
395 \fBapm_battery_time\fR
396 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
397 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
400 \fBbattery\fR \fB(num)\fR
401 Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
405 Artist in current BMPx track
409 Album in current BMPx track
413 Title of the current BMPx track
417 Track number of the current BMPx track
421 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
425 URI of the current BMPx track
429 Amount of memory buffered
433 Amount of memory cached
436 \fBcolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
437 Change drawing color to color
440 \fBcpu\fR \fB(cpuN)\fR
441 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.
444 \fBcpubar\fR \fB(cpu number) (height),(width)\fR
445 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See $cpu for more info on SMP.
448 \fBcpugraph\fR \fB(cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)\fR
449 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See $cpu for more info on SMP.
453 Displays current disk IO.
456 \fBdiskiograph\fR \fB(height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
457 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
460 \fBdownspeed\fR \fBnet\fR
461 Download speed in kilobytes
464 \fBdownspeedf\fR \fBnet\fR
465 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
468 \fBdownspeedgraph\fR \fBnet (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
469 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
473 Text to show if any of the above are not true
476 \fBexec\fR \fBcommand\fR
477 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.
480 \fBexecbar\fR \fBcommand\fR
481 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.
484 \fBexecgraph\fR \fBcommand\fR
485 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
488 \fBexeci\fR \fBinterval command\fR
489 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
492 \fBexecibar\fR \fBinterval command\fR
493 Same as execbar, except with an interval
496 \fBexecigraph\fR \fBinterval command\fR
497 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
500 \fBfont\fR \fB(font)\fR
501 Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the current line and everything following. You can use a $font with no arguments to change back to the default font (much like with $color)
505 Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are
506 counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter
510 \fBfreq_g\fR \fB(n)\fR
511 Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are
512 counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter
516 \fBvoltage_mv\fR \fB(n)\fR
517 Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are
518 counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter
522 \fBvoltage_v\fR \fB(n)\fR
523 Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are
524 counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter
529 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64.
533 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64.
536 \fBfs_bar\fR \fB(height),(width) fs\fR
537 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.
540 \fBfs_free\fR \fB(fs)\fR
541 Free space on a file system available for users.
544 \fBfs_free_perc\fR \fB(fs)\fR
545 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
548 \fBfs_size\fR \fB(fs)\fR
552 \fBfs_used\fR \fB(fs)\fR
553 File system used space
556 \fBhead\fR \fBlogfile lines (interval)\fR
557 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.
560 \fBhr\fR \fB(height)\fR
561 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
564 \fBiconv_start\fR \fBcodeset_from codeset_to\fR
565 Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs to be stopped with iconv_stop.
568 \fBiconv_stop\fR \fB\fR
569 Stop iconv codeset conversion.
572 \fBi2c\fR \fB(dev) type n\fR
573 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.
576 \fBi8k_ac_status\fR \fB\fR
577 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.
580 \fBi8k_bios\fR \fB\fR
581 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
584 \fBi8k_buttons_status\fR \fB\fR
585 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
588 \fBi8k_cpu_temp\fR \fB\fR
589 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
592 \fBi8k_cpu_tempf\fR \fB\fR
593 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in Farenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
596 \fBi8k_left_fan_rpm\fR \fB\fR
597 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.
600 \fBi8k_left_fan_status\fR \fB\fR
601 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.
604 \fBi8k_right_fan_rpm\fR \fB\fR
605 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.
608 \fBi8k_right_fan_status\fR \fB\fR
609 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.
612 \fBi8k_serial\fR \fB\fR
613 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
616 \fBi8k_version\fR \fB\fR
617 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
620 \fBif_running\fR \fB(process)\fR
621 if PROCESS is running, display everything if_running and the matching $endif
624 \fBif_existing\fR \fB(file)\fR
625 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif
628 \fBif_mounted\fR \fB(mountpoint)\fR
629 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between if_mounted and the matching $endif
632 \fBimap_messages\fR \fB(args)\fR
633 Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
636 \fBimap_unseen\fR \fB(args)\fR
637 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
644 \fBlinkstatus\fR \fBinterface\fR
645 Get the link status for wireless connections
649 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
653 Machine, i686 for example
657 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.
661 Amount of memory in use
664 \fBmembar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
665 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
669 Total amount of memory
673 Percentage of memory in use
677 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
681 Album in current MPD song
684 \fBmpd_bar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
685 Bar of mpd's progress
689 Bitrate of current song
693 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
697 Title of current MPD song
713 Percent of song's progress
717 Random status (On/Off)
721 Repeat status (On/Off)
725 Prints the MPD track field
729 Prints the MPD name field
733 Prints the file name of the current MPD song
737 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file name, depending on whats available
741 Unread mail count in mail spool.
748 \fBoutlinecolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
752 \fBpb_battery\fR \fBitem\fR
753 If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display
754 information on battery status. The item parameter
755 specifies, what information to display. Exactly one item
756 must be specified. Valid items are:
759 Display if battery is fully charged, charging,
760 discharging or absent (running on AC)
763 Display charge of battery in percent, if
764 charging or discharging. Nothing will be
765 displayed, if battery is fully charged
769 Display the time remaining until the battery
770 will be fully charged or discharged at current
771 rate. Nothing is displayed, if battery is
772 absent or if it's present but fully charged
776 \fBpop3_unseen\fR \fB(args)\fR
777 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
780 \fBpop3_used\fR \fB(args)\fR
781 Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
784 \fBpre_exec\fR \fBshell command\fR
785 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything and puts output as text.
789 Total processes (sleeping and running)
792 \fBrunning_processes\fR
793 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
796 \fBshadecolor\fR \fB(color)\fR
800 \fBstippled_hr\fR \fB(space)\fR
801 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
804 \fBswapbar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
805 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
809 Amount of swap in use
817 Percentage of swap in use
821 System name, Linux for example
824 \fBtcp_portmon\fR \fBport_begin port_end item (index)\fR \fI(ip4 only at present)\fR
825 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
827 count - total number of connections in the range
829 rip - remote ip address
831 rhost - remote host name
833 rport - remote port number
835 rservice - remote service name from /etc/services
837 lip - local ip address
839 lhost - local host name
841 lport - local port number
843 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
845 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.
849 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} -
850 displays the number of connections in the bittorrent port range
852 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} -
853 displays the remote host ip of the first sshd connection
855 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} -
856 displays the remote host ip of the tenth sshd connection
858 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} -
859 displays the remote host name of the first connection on a privileged port
861 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} -
862 displays the remote host port of the fifth connection on a privileged port
864 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} -
865 displays the local service name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
867 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.
869 \fBtexeci\fR \fBinterval command\fR
870 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.
873 \fBoffset\fR \fB(pixels)\fR
874 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
877 \fBtail\fR \fBlogfile lines (interval)\fR
878 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.
881 \fBtime\fR \fB(format)\fR
882 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format
885 \fBtotaldown\fR \fBnet\fR
886 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.
889 \fBtop\fR \fBtype, num\fR
890 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.
893 \fBtop_mem\fR \fBtype, num\fR
894 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
897 \fBtotalup\fR \fBnet\fR
898 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
901 \fBupdates\fR \fBNumber of updates\fR
905 \fBupspeed\fR \fBnet\fR
906 Upload speed in kilobytes
909 \fBupspeedf\fR \fBnet\fR
910 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
913 \fBupspeedgraph\fR \fBnet (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale)\fR
914 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
922 Uptime in a shorter format
926 Seti@home current progress
929 \fBseti_progbar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
930 Seti@home current progress bar
934 Seti@home total user credit
937 \fBvoffset\fR \fB(pixels)\fR
938 Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset.
941 \fBxmms_bar\fR \fB(height),(width)\fR
942 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: progress bar
946 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: bitrate of current tune
950 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: number of audio channels of current tune
954 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: full path and filename of current tune
958 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: sampling frequency of current tune
962 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: total length of current tune as MM:SS
965 \fBxmms_length_seconds\fR
966 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: total length of current tune in seconds
969 \fBxmms_playlist_position\fR
970 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: playlist position of current tune
973 \fBxmms_playlist_length\fR
974 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: number of tunes in playlist
978 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: MM:SS position of current tune
981 \fBxmms_position_seconds\fR
982 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: position of current tune in seconds
986 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running)
990 xmms / bmp / audacious / infopipe: title of current tune
994 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
997 \fBibm_temps\fR \fBN\fR
998 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures
999 from the IBM temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is
1000 on the CPU, 3 is on the GPU.
1004 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume,
1005 controlled by the volume keys (0-14).
1008 \fBibm_brightness\fR
1009 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the
1010 laptops's LCD (0-7).
1014 conky \fB\-t '${time %D %H:%m}' \-o \-u 30\fR
1015 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30 sec update interval.
1017 conky \fB\-a top_left \-x 5 \-y 500 \-d\fR
1018 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
1020 \fB~/.conkyrc\fR default configuration file
1022 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
1023 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
1024 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
1025 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
1026 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in Conky
1027 to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree useful to
1028 find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument which makes
1029 Conky to create its own window.
1031 http://conky.sourceforge.net [http://conky.sourceforge.net]
1033 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky]
1035 #conky on irc.freenode.net
1037 The Conky dev team. What's up now!