NAME
conky - A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but
- more kickass. It just keeps on given'er. Yeah.
+ more kickass. It just keeps on given’er. Yeah.
SYNOPSIS
conky [options]
DESCRIPTION
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
+ 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,
+ 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.
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 app-
+ Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo’s Portage... simply use "emerge app-
admin/conky" for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date
- ebuild within Conky's package or in CVS.
+ ebuild within Conky’s package or in CVS.
- Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by
+ Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian’s repositories soon (by
mid-September, hopefully), and then Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until
then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
- --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-xft --enable-seti --enable-dou-
+ --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-xft --enable-seti --enable-dou‐
ble-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime --enable-mpd
--enable-mldonkey --enable-x11 --enable-portmon
src/conky
- Conky probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
- It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
- uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-
+ Conky probably doesn’t compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
+ It doesn’t compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
+ uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn‐
casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89).
- Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't
+ Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don’t
know exactly why.
- You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need
+ You can disable ’drawing to own window’ feature in case you don’t need
it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script.
rest of Conky.
If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
- unless you think something's seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
+ unless you think something’s seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1
conky". Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart.
IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the
metar stuff. mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully
- there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
+ there’ll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
OPTIONS
Command line options override configurations defined in configuration
-t TEXT
- Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
+ Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ’ $uptime ’
-u SECONDS
CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from
- Debian package, this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gun-
+ Debian package, this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gun‐
zip conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying
it. Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
alignment
- Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot-
+ Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot‐
tom_left, bottom_right, or none
default_shade_color
- Default shading color and border's shading color
+ Default shading color and border’s shading color
default_outline_color
double_buffer
- Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom-
- mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be
+ Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom‐
+ mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won’t be
so big.
VARIABLES
Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html
- [http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html]. Color can be also in #rrggbb for-
+ [http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html]. Color can be also in #rrggbb for‐
mat (hex). Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000
so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
- Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See
+ Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar’s height in pixels. See
$cpu for more info on SMP.
exec command
- Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
- ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
+ Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn‐
+ ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I’d
recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
execi interval command
- Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
+ Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can’t be less
than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
head logfile lines (interval)
Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
- is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
+ is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky’s interval. Max of 30
lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
i8k_left_fan_rpm
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
- the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
+ 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.
i8k_right_fan_rpm
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
- the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
+ 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.
Percentage of memory in use
- ml_upload_counter
- total session upload in mb
-
-
- ml_download_counter
- total session download in mb
-
-
- ml_nshared_files
- number of shared files
-
-
- ml_shared_counter
- total session shared in mb, buggy in some mldonkey versions
-
-
- ml_tcp_upload_rate
- tcp upload rate in kb/s
-
-
- ml_tcp_download_rate
- tcp download rate in kb/s
-
-
- ml_udp_upload_rate
- udp upload rate in kb/s
-
-
- ml_udp_download_rate
- udp download rate in kb/s
-
-
- ml_ndownloaded_files
- number of completed files
-
-
- ml_ndownloading_files
- number of downloading files
-
-
mpd_artist
Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
mpd_bar (height),(width)
- Bar of mpd's progress
+ Bar of mpd’s progress
mpd_bitrate
mpd_vol
- MPD's volume
+ MPD’s volume
mpd_elapsed
- Song's elapsed time
+ Song’s elapsed time
mpd_length
- Song's length
+ Song’s length
mpd_percent
- Percent of song's progress
+ Percent of song’s progress
mpd_random
Examples:
- ${tcp_portmon 6881 6889 count} - displays the number of connec-
+ ${tcp_portmon 6881 6889 count} - displays the number of connec‐
tions in the bittorrent port range
${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} - displays the remote host ip of the
name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range
- actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin-
+ actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin‐
gle port range for different items and different indexes all use
the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids
creating redundant monitors.
texeci interval command
Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the
output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a
- thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat-
+ thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat‐
ing. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time
it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a
script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the
tail logfile lines (interval)
Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
- not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
+ not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky’s interval. Max of 30 lines
can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
time (format)
- Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
+ Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for‐
mat
totaldown net
Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
- there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has
+ there doesn’t seem to be a way to know how many times it has
already done that before conky has started.
EXAMPLES
- conky -t '${time %D %H:%m}' -o -u 30
+ conky -t ’${time %D %H:%m}’ -o -u 30
Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
sec update interval.
~/.conkyrc default configuration file
BUGS
- 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
+ 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
SEE ALSO
http://conky.sourceforge.net [http://conky.sourceforge.net]
- http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky [http://www.source-
+ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky [http://www.source‐
forge.net/projects/conky]
#conky on irc.freenode.net
AUTHORS
- The Conky dev team. What's up now!
+ The Conky dev team. What’s up now!
static regex_t *exclusion_expression = 0;
static unsigned int g_time = 0;
-static int previous_total = 0;
+static unsigned long previous_total = 0;
static struct process *first_process = 0;
static struct process *find_process(pid_t pid)
static void process_cleanup(void);
static void delete_process(struct process *);
/*inline void draw_processes(void);*/
-static int calc_cpu_total(void);
-static void calc_cpu_each(int);
+static unsigned long calc_cpu_total(void);
+static void calc_cpu_each(unsigned long);
/******************************************/
cur = &info;
char line[BUFFER_LEN], filename[BUFFER_LEN], procname[BUFFER_LEN];
int ps;
- int user_time, kernel_time;
+ unsigned long user_time, kernel_time;
int rc;
char *r, *q;
char deparenthesised_name[BUFFER_LEN];
* Extract cpu times from data in /proc filesystem
*/
rc = sscanf(line,
- "%*s %s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %d %d %*s %*s %*s %d %*s %*s %*s %d %d",
+ "%*s %s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %lu %lu %*s %*s %*s %d %*s %*s %*s %d %d",
procname, &process->user_time, &process->kernel_time,
&nice_val, &process->vsize, &process->rss);
if (rc < 5)
process->totalmem = ((float) process->rss / cur->memmax) / 10;
- if (process->previous_user_time == INT_MAX)
+ if (process->previous_user_time == ULONG_MAX)
process->previous_user_time = process->user_time;
- if (process->previous_kernel_time == INT_MAX)
+ if (process->previous_kernel_time == ULONG_MAX)
process->previous_kernel_time = process->kernel_time;
/* store the difference of the user_time */
/* Calculate cpu total */
/******************************************/
-static int calc_cpu_total()
+static unsigned long calc_cpu_total()
{
- int total, t;
+ unsigned long total, t;
int rc;
int ps;
char line[BUFFER_LEN];
- int cpu, nice, system, idle;
+ unsigned long cpu, nice, system, idle;
ps = open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY);
rc = read(ps, line, sizeof(line));
close(ps);
if (rc < 0)
return 0;
- sscanf(line, "%*s %d %d %d %d", &cpu, &nice, &system, &idle);
+ sscanf(line, "%*s %lu %lu %lu %lu", &cpu, &nice, &system, &idle);
total = cpu + nice + system + idle;
t = total - previous_total;
previous_total = total;
- if (t < 0)
- t = 0;
return t;
}
/* Calculate each processes cpu */
/******************************************/
-inline static void calc_cpu_each(int total)
+inline static void calc_cpu_each(unsigned long total)
{
struct process *p = first_process;
while (p) {
sorttmp = malloc(sizeof(struct process) * sorttmp_size);
assert(sorttmp != NULL);
}
- int total;
- unsigned int i, j;
+ unsigned long total;
+ unsigned long i, j;
total = calc_cpu_total(); /* calculate the total of the processor */
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