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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>conky</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.66.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="id257345"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>conky — a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but more kickass.</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">conky</tt> [<i class="replaceable"><tt>options</tt></i>]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id222072"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
- Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
- Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's predecessor.
- Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in it's own window.
- Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts,
- then display the output from stdout.
- </p><p>
- We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a developer is welcome.
- Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
- </p><p>
- Thanks for your interest in Conky.
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id222093"></a><h2>Compiling</h2><p>
- First, make sure you have the X development libraries installed, this should be a package along the lines
- of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev". Gentoo users, Conky is in Gentoo's Portage. Simply use "emerge conky" for installation.
- There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within Conky's package or in CVS.
- </p><p>
- To compile and run Conky with all optional components:
- </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">sh autogen.sh</tt></b></span> <tt class="option"># Only required if building from CVS</tt>
- </span></dt><dd></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">./configure </tt></b></span><tt class="option">
---prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
---datadir=/usr/ share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
---enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime
---enable-mpd --enable-xft --enable-seti</tt>
- </span></dt><dd></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">make</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">make install</tt></b></span> <tt class="option"># Optional</tt>
- </span></dt><dd></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">./conky</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd></dd></dl></div><p>
- Conky doesn't probably compile with other compilers than gcc and icc.
- It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99.
- It uses few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strncasecmp(),
- optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89). Crashes in file system
- statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't know exactly why.
- </p><p>
- You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need it by passing
- --disable-own-window to configure -script.
- </p><p>
-
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id239630"></a><h2>You Should Know</h2><p>
- Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects in
- Conky are harder on resources then others. In particular, the $tail,
- $top, $font, and $graph objects are quite costly in comparison to the rest of Conky.
- </p><p>
- If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
- unless you think something is going seriously wrong (mem leak, et cetera).
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id239646"></a><h2>Options</h2><p>Command line options override configurations defined in configuration file.</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-V</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Prints version and exits
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-a </tt></b></span><tt class="option">ALIGNMENT</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom}_{left,right} or none
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-b</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker")
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-c </tt></b></span><tt class="option">FILE</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-d</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-f </tt></b></span><tt class="option">FONT</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Font to use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-h</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Prints command line help and exits
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-o</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Create own window to draw
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-t </tt></b></span><tt class="option">TEXT</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-u </tt></b></span><tt class="option">SECONDS</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Update interval
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-w </tt></b></span><tt class="option">WIN_ID</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Window id to draw
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-x </tt></b></span><tt class="option">X_COORDINATE</tt></span></dt><dd>
- X position
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">-y </tt></b></span><tt class="option">Y_COORDINATE</tt></span></dt><dd>
- Y position
- <p></p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id221293"></a><h2>Configuration Settings</h2><p>
- Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
- conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. You might want to copy
- it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
- </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">alignment</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bottom_left, bottom_right, or none
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">background</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when started
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">on_bottom</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Set conky on the bottom of all other applications
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">border_margin</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Border margin in pixels
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">border_width</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Border width in pixels
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">cpu_avg_samples</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">default_color</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Default color and border color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">default_shade_color</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Default shading color and border's shading color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">default_outline_color</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Default outline color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">double_buffer</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">draw_borders</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Draw borders around text?
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">draw_shades</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Draw shades?
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">draw_outline</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Draw outlines?
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">font</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">gap_x</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Gap between right or left border of screen, same as passing -x at command line
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">gap_y</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Gap between top or bottom border of screen, same as passing -y at command line
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">no_buffers</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mail_spool</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Mail spool for mail checking
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">minimum_size</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Minimum size of window
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mldonkey_hostname</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Hostname for mldonkey stuff, defaults to localhost
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mldonkey_port</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Mldonkey port, 4001 default
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mldonkey_login</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Mldonkey login, default none
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mldonkey_password</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Mldonkey password, default none
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_host</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Host of MPD server
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_post</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Port of MPD server
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_password</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- MPD server password
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">net_avg_samples</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- The number of samples to average for net data
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">override_utf8_locale</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Force UTF8? requires XFT
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">own_window</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Boolean, create own window to draw?
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">pad_percents</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">stippled_borders</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">total_run_times</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero makes Conky run forever
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">update_interval</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Update interval in seconds
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">uppercase</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">use_spacer</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">use_xft</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span><b class="command"><tt class="option">text</tt></b></span></span></dt><dd>
- After this begins text to be formatted on screen
- <p></p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id265122"></a><h2>Variables</h2><p>
- Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <a href="http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html" target="_top">
- http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html</a>
- Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex).
-
- Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really
- means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
- </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">addr</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(interface)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- IP address for an interface
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">acpiacadapter</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- ACPI ac adapter state.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">acpifan</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- ACPI fan state
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">acpitemp</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- ACPI temperature in C.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">acpitempf</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- ACPI temperature in F.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">adt746xcpu</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">adt746xfan</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Fan speed from therm_adt746x
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">alignr</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(num)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Right-justify text, with space of N
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">alignc</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(num)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Align text to centre
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">battery</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(num)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">buffers</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Amount of memory buffered
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">cached</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Amount of memory cached
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">color</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(color)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Change drawing color to color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">cpu</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- CPU usage in percents
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">cpubar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">cpugraph</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">downspeed</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Download speed in kilobytes
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">downspeedf</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">downspeedgraph</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">else</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Text to show if any of the above are not true
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">exec</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">shell command</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">execbar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">shell command</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">execgraph</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">shell command</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Same as execbar, but graphs values
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">execi</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">interval, shell command</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">font</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">font</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Specify a different font. Only applies to one line.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">freq</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Returns CPU frequency in MHz
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">freq_g</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Returns CPU frequency in GHz
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">fs_bar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width) fs</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">fs_free</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(fs)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Free space on a file system available for users.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">fs_free_perc</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(fs)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">fs_size</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(fs)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- File system size
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">fs_used</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(fs)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- File system used space
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">hr</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">i2c</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(dev), type, n</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">if_running</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(process)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- if PROCESS is running, display everything if_running and the matching $endif
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">if_existing</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(file)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">if_mounted</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(mountpoint)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between if_mounted and the matching $endif
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">kernel</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Kernel version
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">linkstatus</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(interface)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Get the link status for wireless connections
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">loadavg</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">machine</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Machine, i686 for example
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mails</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mem</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Amount of memory in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">membar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Bar that shows amount of memory in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">memmax</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Total amount of memory
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">memperc</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Percentage of memory in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_upload_counter</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- total session upload in mb
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_download_counter</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- total session download in mb
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_nshared_files</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- number of shared files
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_shared_counter</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- total session shared in mb, buggy in some mldonkey versions
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_tcp_upload_rate</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- tcp upload rate in kb/s
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_tcp_download_rate</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- tcp download rate in kb/s
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_udp_upload_rate</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- udp upload rate in kb/s
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_udp_download_rate</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- udp download rate in kb/s
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_ndownloaded_files</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- number of completed files
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">ml_ndownloading_files</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- number of downloading files
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_artist</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_album</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Album in current MPD song
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_bar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Bar of mpd's progress
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_bitrate</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Bitrate of current song
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_status</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Playing, stopped, et cetera.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_title</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Title of current MPD song
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_vol</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- MPD's volume
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_elapsed</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Song's elapsed time
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_length</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Song's length
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">mpd_percent</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Percent of song's progress
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">new_mails</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Unread mail count in mail spool.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">nodename</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Hostname
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">outlinecolor</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(color)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Change outline color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">pre_exec</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">shell command</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything and puts output as text.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">processes</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Total processes (sleeping and running)
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">running_processes</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">shadecolor</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(color)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Change shading color
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">stippled_hr</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(space)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">swapbar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Bar that shows amount of swap in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">swap</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Amount of swap in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">swapmax</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Total amount of swap
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">swapperc</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Percentage of swap in use
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">sysname</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- System name, Linux for example
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">offset</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(pixels)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">tail</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- logfile, lines interval> Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines. Max of 30 lines can be displayed.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">time</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(format)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">totaldown</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">top</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">type, num</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- 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.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">top_mem</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">type, num</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">totalup</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Total upload, this one too, may overflow
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">updates</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">Number of updates</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- for debugging
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">upspeed</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Upload speed in kilobytes
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">upspeedf</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">upspeedgraph</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">uptime</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Uptime
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">uptime_short</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Uptime in a shorter format
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">seti_prog</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Seti@home current progress
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">seti_progbar</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(height),(width)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Seti@home current progress bar
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">seti_credit</tt></b></span>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Seti@home total user credit
- <p></p></dd><dt><span class="term">
- <span><b class="command"><tt class="option">voffset</tt></b></span>
- <tt class="option">(pixels)</tt>
- </span></dt><dd>
- Change verticle offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset.
- <p></p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id269094"></a><h2>Examples</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><tt class="varname">conky </tt><tt class="option">-t '${time %D %H:%m}' -o -u 30</tt></span></dt><dd>Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30 sec update interval.</dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="varname">conky </tt><tt class="option">-a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d</tt></span></dt><dd>Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id269133"></a><h2>Files</h2><tt class="filename">~/.conkyrc</tt> default configuration file
- </div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id269145"></a><h2>Bugs</h2><p>
- Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
- all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
- been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
- disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
- show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in Conky
- to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree useful to
- find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument which makes
- Conky to create its own window.
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id269160"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p><a href="http://conky.sourceforge.net" target="_top">
- http://conky.sourceforge.net</a></p><p><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky" target="_top">
- http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky</a></p><p>
- #conky on irc.freenode.net
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id269185"></a><h2>Authors</h2><p>
- The Conky dev team. What's up now??!
- </p></div></div></body></html>
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