6 conky - A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but
7 more kickass. It just keeps on given'er. Yeah.
13 Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
14 Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's
15 predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your
16 root desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects,
17 as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display
18 the output from stdout.
20 We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a de-
21 veloper is welcome. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make
22 bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
24 Thanks for your interest in Conky.
27 For users compiling from source, make sure you have the X development
28 libraries installed. This should be a package along the lines of
29 "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".
31 Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage... simply use "emerge app-
32 admin/conky" for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date
33 ebuild within Conky's package or in Svn.
35 Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by
36 mid-September, hopefully), and then Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until
37 then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.
39 Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note
40 that some configure options may differ for your system):
42 sh autogen.sh # Only required if building from Svn
44 ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --in-
45 fodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --local-
46 statedir=/var/lib --disable-own-window --enable-audacious[=yes|no|lega-
47 cy] --enable-bmpx --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd --enable-xmms2 --dis-
48 able-portmon --disable-network --enable-debug --disable-x11 --dis-
49 able-double-buffer --disable-xdamage --disable-xft
53 make install # Optional
57 Conky probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
58 It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
59 uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-
60 casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89).
61 Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't
64 You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need
65 it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script.
69 Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects in
70 Conky are harder on resources then others. In particular, the $tail,
71 $top, $font, and $graph objects are quite costly in comparison to the
74 If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
75 unless you think something's seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
77 An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1
78 conky". Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart.
80 IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the
81 metar stuff. mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully
82 there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
85 Command line options override configurations defined in configuration
89 Prints version and exits
92 -a | --alignment=ALIGNMENT
93 Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom}_{left,right} or none
97 Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker")
101 Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc
105 Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background
113 Prints command line help and exits
117 Create own window to draw
121 Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
124 -u | --interval=SECONDS
128 -w | --window-id=WIN_ID
140 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
141 Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
142 conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from De-
143 bian package, this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gunzip
144 conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
146 You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying
147 it. Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
150 Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot-
151 tom_left, bottom_right, or none
155 Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when
160 Border margin in pixels
164 Border width in pixels
167 color0 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
170 color1 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
173 color2 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
176 color3 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
179 color4 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
182 color5 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
185 color6 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
188 color7 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
191 color8 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
194 color9 A color variable for use inside TEXT segments
198 The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring
202 If true, cpu in top will show usage of one processor's power. If
203 false, cpu in top will show the usage of all processors' power
208 Default color and border color
211 default_outline_color
212 Default outline color
216 Default shading color and border's shading color
220 Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom-
221 mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be
226 Draw borders around text?
230 Draw borders around graphs?
241 font Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font
244 gap_x Gap, in pixels, between right or left border of screen, same as
245 passing -x at command line, e.g. gap_x 10
248 gap_y Gap, in pixels, between top or bottom border of screen, same as
249 passing -y at command line, e.g. gap_y 10.
252 imap Default global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
253 interval] [-f folder] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is
254 143, default folder is 'INBOX', default interval is 5 minutes.
255 If the password is supplied as '*', you will be prompted to en-
256 ter the password when Conky starts.
260 Mail spool for mail checking
263 max_port_monitor_connections
264 Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections
265 (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
269 Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns,
270 etc. (default is 512)
274 Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout below TEXT line in
275 config file (default is 16384 bytes)
278 text_buffer_size bytes
279 Size of the standard text buffer (default is 1280 bytes).
283 Maximum width of window
286 minimum_size width (height)
287 Minimum size of window
302 music_player_interval
303 Music player thread update interval (defaults to Conky's update
308 The number of samples to average for net data
312 Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
316 Force UTF8? requires XFT
320 Boolean, create own window to draw?
324 Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to "Conky".
327 own_window_colour colour
328 If own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour
329 (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a
330 valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
333 own_window_hints undecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
334 If own_window is yes, you may use these window manager hints to
335 affect the way Conky displays. Notes: Use own_window_type desk-
336 top as another way to implement many of these hints implicitly.
337 If you use own_window_type override, window manager hints have
338 no meaning and are ignored.
342 Manually set the window name. Defaults to "<hostname> - conky".
345 own_window_transparent
346 Boolean, set pseudo-transparency?
350 if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop or
351 override (default: normal). Desktop windows are special windows
352 that have no window decorations; are always visible on your
353 desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky
354 across all workspaces. Override windows are not under the con-
355 trol of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type of win-
356 dow can be useful for certain situations.
360 Print text to stdout.
364 Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding)
367 pop3 Default global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i
368 interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, default
369 interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*', you
370 will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
374 Shortens units to a single character (kiB->k, GiB->G, etc.). De-
379 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
383 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero
384 makes Conky run forever
388 Update interval in seconds
392 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
396 Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving oth-
397 er things around. Arguments are left, right, and none (default).
398 The old true/false values are deprecated and default to
399 right/none respectively. Note that this only helps if you are
400 using a mono font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
404 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
408 Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0.
415 TEXT After this begins text to be formatted on screen
419 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
420 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html>.
421 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). Note that when displaying
422 bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes
426 IP address for an interface
430 ACPI ac adapter state.
438 ACPI temperature in C.
442 ACPI temperature in F.
446 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
450 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
454 Right-justify text, with space of N
462 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
466 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
470 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
471 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
474 audacious_bar (height),(width)
479 Bitrate of current tune
483 Number of audio channels of current tune
487 Full path and filename of current tune
491 Sampling frequency of current tune
495 Total length of current tune as MM:SS
498 audacious_length_seconds
499 Total length of current tune in seconds
502 audacious_playlist_position
503 Playlist position of current tune
506 audacious_playlist_length
507 Number of tunes in playlist
511 Position of current tune (MM:SS)
514 audacious_position_seconds
515 Position of current tune in seconds
519 Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running)
522 audacious_title (max length)
523 Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier
527 Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM
528 battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default
532 battery_bar (height),(width) (num)
533 Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI bat-
534 tery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
537 battery_percent (num)
538 Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery num-
539 ber can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
543 Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI
544 battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
548 Artist in current BMPx track
552 Album in current BMPx track
556 Title of the current BMPx track
560 Track number of the current BMPx track
564 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
568 URI of the current BMPx track
572 Amount of memory buffered
575 cached Amount of memory cached
579 Change drawing color to color
582 color0 Change drawing color to color0 configuration option
585 color1 Change drawing color to color1 configuration option
588 color2 Change drawing color to color2 configuration option
591 color3 Change drawing color to color3 configuration option
594 color4 Change drawing color to color4 configuration option
597 color5 Change drawing color to color5 configuration option
600 color6 Change drawing color to color6 configuration option
603 color7 Change drawing color to color7 configuration option
606 color8 Change drawing color to color8 configuration option
609 color9 Change drawing color to color9 configuration option
613 CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be
614 provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and
615 ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
618 cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
619 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See
620 $cpu for more info on SMP.
623 cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
625 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See
626 $cpu for more info on SMP.
630 Displays current disk IO. Device is optional, and takes the form
631 of sda for /dev/sda. Individual partitions are allowed.
634 diskiograph (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
636 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is
637 non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
641 Displays current disk IO for reads. Device as in diskio.
644 diskiograph_read (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi-
645 ent colour 2) (scale)
646 Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
647 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as
651 diskio_write (device)
652 Displays current disk IO for writes. Device as in diskio.
655 diskiograph_write (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi-
656 ent colour 2) (scale)
657 Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
658 If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device
663 Download speed in kilobytes
667 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
670 downspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
672 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
673 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
676 else Text to show if any of the above are not true
680 Current entropy available for crypto freaks
683 entropy_bar (height),(width)
684 Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks
688 Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks
692 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
693 ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
694 recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
698 Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value be-
699 tween 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the
700 bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future.
704 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
707 execi interval command
708 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
709 than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
712 execibar interval command
713 Same as execbar, except with an interval
716 execigraph interval command
717 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
721 Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the cur-
722 rent line and everything following. You can use a $font with no
723 arguments to change back to the default font (much like with
728 Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
729 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
733 Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
734 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
738 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to
739 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
744 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to
745 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
749 fs_bar (height),(width) fs
750 Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system. height
751 is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
755 Free space on a file system available for users.
759 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
767 File system used space
770 goto x The next element will be printed at position 'x'.
773 hddtemp dev, (host,(port))
774 Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported
775 by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is
776 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634.
779 head logfile lines (interval)
780 Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
781 is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
782 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
786 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
790 Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omit-
791 ted if you have only one hwmon device. Parameter type is either
792 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Cel-
793 sius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n
794 is number of the sensor. See /sys/class/hwmon/ on your local
798 iconv_start codeset_from codeset_to
799 Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs
800 to be stopped with iconv_stop.
804 Stop iconv codeset conversion.
808 I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted
809 if you have only one I2C device. Parameter type is either 'in'
810 or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Celsius) or
811 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n is number
812 of the sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
816 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
817 whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
818 human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by
823 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
824 the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
828 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
829 the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
833 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
834 the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
838 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
839 the cpu temperature in Fahrenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
843 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
844 the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
845 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
850 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
851 the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-
852 readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in re-
857 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
858 the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
859 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
864 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
865 the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to hu-
866 man-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
871 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
872 your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
876 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
877 the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
881 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
885 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the IBM
886 temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the
891 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, con-
892 trolled by the volume keys (0-14).
896 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops's
901 if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between
902 $if_empty and the matching $endif
906 if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the
910 if_existing file (string)
911 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the
912 matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE
913 containing the specified string and prints everything between
914 $if_existing and the matching $endif.
917 if_mounted (mountpoint)
918 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted
919 and the matching $endif
923 Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by de-
924 fault. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
925 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
926 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
927 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
928 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
932 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox
933 by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
934 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
935 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
936 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
937 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
940 kernel Kernel version
944 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past
945 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
949 Machine, i686 for example
952 mails (mailbox) (interval)
953 Mail count in the specified mailbox or your mail spool if not.
954 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. You can use
955 a program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using
956 your favourite protocol. See also new_mails.
959 mboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject
961 Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format mailbox.
962 mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be encapsu-
963 lated using '"', ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"}
966 mem Amount of memory in use
969 membar (height),(width)
970 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
973 memmax Total amount of memory
977 Percentage of memory in use
981 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
985 Album in current MPD song
988 mpd_bar (height),(width)
989 Bar of mpd's progress
993 Bitrate of current song
997 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
1000 mpd_title (max length)
1001 Title of current MPD song
1017 Percent of song's progress
1021 Random status (On/Off)
1025 Repeat status (On/Off)
1029 Prints the MPD track field
1033 Prints the MPD name field
1037 Prints the file name of the current MPD song
1041 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1042 name, depending on whats available
1045 new_mails (mailbox) (interval)
1046 Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if not.
1047 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported.
1054 outlinecolor (color)
1055 Change outline color
1059 If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat-
1060 tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
1061 display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are:
1063 status: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharg-
1064 ing or absent (running on AC)
1065 percent: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or
1066 discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully
1068 time: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully
1069 charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if
1070 battery is absent or if it's present but fully charged and not
1074 platform (dev) type n
1075 Platform sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be
1076 omitted if you have only one platform device. Platform type is
1077 either 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp'
1078 (Celsius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter
1079 n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/platform/devices/ on
1080 your local computer.
1084 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox
1085 by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by
1086 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
1087 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, de-
1088 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
1089 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
1093 Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global
1094 POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes
1095 seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are:
1096 "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default
1097 port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is
1098 supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when
1102 pre_exec shell command
1103 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything
1104 and puts output as text.
1108 Total processes (sleeping and running)
1112 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
1116 Change shading color
1120 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
1123 swapbar (height),(width)
1124 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
1127 swap Amount of swap in use
1131 Total amount of swap
1135 Percentage of swap in use
1139 System name, Linux for example
1142 tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) (ip4 only at present)
1143 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be
1144 in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
1146 count - total number of connections in the range
1147 rip - remote ip address
1148 rhost - remote host name
1149 rport - remote port number
1150 rservice - remote service name from /etc/services
1151 lip - local ip address
1152 lhost - local host name
1153 lport - local port number
1154 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
1156 The connection index provides you with access to each connection
1157 in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for in-
1158 dex values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values higher than n-1 are
1159 simply ignored. For the "count" item, the connection index must
1160 be omitted. It is required for all other items.
1163 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} - displays the number of connec-
1164 tions in the bittorrent port range
1165 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} - displays the remote host ip of the
1166 first sshd connection
1167 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} - displays the remote host ip of the
1168 tenth sshd connection
1169 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} - displays the remote host name of
1170 the first connection on a privileged port
1171 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} - displays the remote host port of
1172 the fifth connection on a privileged port
1173 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} - displays the local service
1174 name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
1176 Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range
1177 actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin-
1178 gle port range for different items and different indexes all use
1179 the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids
1180 creating redundant monitors.
1182 texeci interval command
1183 Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the
1184 output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a
1185 thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat-
1186 ing. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time
1187 it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a
1188 script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the in-
1189 terval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi.
1193 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
1196 rss url delay_in_minutes action item_num
1197 Download and parse RSS feeds. Action may be one of the follow-
1198 ing: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num
1199 par) and item_titles.
1202 tab (width, (start))
1203 Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column 'start'.
1206 tail logfile lines (interval)
1207 Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
1208 not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
1209 can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
1213 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
1218 Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time).
1221 tztime (timezone) (format)
1222 Local time for specified timezone, see man strftime to get more
1223 information about format. The timezone argument is specified in
1224 similar fashion as TZ environment variable. For hints, look in
1225 /usr/share/zoneinfo. e.g. US/Pacific, Europe/Zurich, etc.
1229 Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
1230 there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has al-
1231 ready done that before conky has started.
1235 This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically,
1236 processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu us-
1237 age, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
1238 "pid", "cpu", "mem", and "time". There can be a max of 10 pro-
1243 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
1247 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
1250 updates Number of updates
1255 Upload speed in kilobytes
1259 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
1262 upspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
1264 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
1265 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
1272 Uptime in a shorter format
1276 Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause
1277 text to overlap. See also $offset.
1281 Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
1282 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1286 Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omit-
1287 ted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1291 Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only)
1295 Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only)
1298 wireless_bitrate net
1299 Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only)
1303 Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only)
1306 wireless_link_qual net
1307 Wireless link quality (Linux only)
1310 wireless_link_qual_max net
1311 Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only)
1314 wireless_link_qual_perc net
1315 Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only)
1318 wireless_link_bar (height), (width) net
1319 Wireless link quality bar (Linux only)
1323 Artist in current XMMS2 song
1327 Album in current XMMS2 song
1331 Title in current XMMS2 song
1335 Genre in current XMMS2 song
1339 Comment in current XMMS2 song
1347 Transport plugin used
1351 Full path to current song
1355 Track number in current XMMS2 song
1359 Bitrate of current song
1363 XMMS2 id of current song
1367 Duration of current song
1375 Size of current song
1379 Percent of song's progress
1383 XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected)
1386 xmms2_bar (height),(width)
1387 Bar of XMMS2's progress
1391 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1392 name, depending on whats available
1396 conky -t '${time %D %H:%M}' -o -u 30
1397 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
1398 sec update interval.
1400 conky -a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d
1401 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
1404 ~/.conkyrc default configuration file
1407 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
1408 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
1409 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
1410 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
1411 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in
1412 Conky to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree
1413 useful to find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument
1414 which makes Conky to create its own window.
1417 <http://conky.sourceforge.net>
1419 <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky>
1421 #conky on irc.freenode.net
1424 The Conky dev team. What's up now!