conky(1) conky(1) 1mNAME0m conky - A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but more kickass. It just keeps on given’er. Yeah. 1mSYNOPSIS0m 1mconky 22m[4moptions24m] 1mDESCRIPTION0m Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo. Since its inception, Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining simplicity and configurability. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Not only does Conky have many built-in objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by using scripts and other external pro‐ grams. Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few), built in IMAP and POP3 support, built in support for many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious), and much much more. Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours. We are always looking for help, whether its reporting bugs, writing patches, or writing docs. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches, or stop by #conky on irc.freenode.net if you have questions or want to contribute. Thanks for your interest in Conky. 1mCOMPILING0m For users compiling from source on a binary distro, make sure you have the X development libraries installed. This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or "xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev" format for the other libs required (depending on your configure options). Conky has (for some time) been available in the repositories of most popular distributions. Here are some installation instructions for a few: 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 the git repo. Debian, etc. users -- Conky should be in your repositories, and can be installed by doing "aptitude install conky". Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system): 1msh autogen.sh # Only required if building from the git repo0m 1m./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --in‐0m 1mfodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --local‐0m 1mstatedir=/var/lib --disable-own-window --enable-audacious[=yes|no|lega‐0m 1mcy] --enable-bmpx --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd --enable-xmms2 --dis‐0m 1mable-portmon --disable-network --enable-debug --disable-x11 --dis‐0m 1mable-double-buffer --disable-xdamage --disable-xft0m 1mmake0m 1mmake install # Optional0m 1msrc/conky0m Conky has been tested to be compatible with C99 C, however it has not been tested with anything other than gcc, and is not guaranteed to work with other compilers. 1mYOU SHOULD KNOW0m Conky is generally very good on resources. That said, the more you try to make Conky do, the more resources it is going to consume. An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1 conky". Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart. You can now also do the same with SIGHUP. 1mOPTIONS0m Command line options override configurations defined in configuration file. 1m-v | -V | --version0m Prints version and exits 1m-q | --quiet0m Run Conky in ’quiet mode’ (ie. no output) 1m-a | --alignment=ALIGNMENT0m Text alignment on screen, {top,bottom,middle}_{left,right,mid‐ dle} or none 1m-b | --double-buffer0m Use double buffering (eliminates "flicker") 1m-c | --config=FILE0m Config file to load instead of $HOME/.conkyrc 1m-d | --daemonize0m Daemonize Conky, aka fork to background 1m-f | --font=FONT0m Font to use 1m-h | --help0m Prints command line help and exits 1m-o | --own-window0m Create own window to draw 1m-t | --text=TEXT0m Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ’ $uptime ’ 1m-u | --interval=SECONDS0m Update interval 1m-w | --window-id=WIN_ID0m Window id to draw 1m-x X_COORDINATE0m X position 1m-y Y_COORDINATE0m Y position 1m-i COUNT0m Number of times to update Conky (and quit) 1mCONFIGURATION SETTINGS0m Default configuration file location is $HOME/.conkyrc or ${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf. On most systems, sysconfdir is /etc, and you can find the sample config file there (/etc/conky/conky.conf). You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it. Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net/ 1malignment0m Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, top_mid‐ dle, bottom_left, bottom_right, bottom_middle, middle_left, mid‐ dle_right, or none (also can be abreviated as tl, tr, tm, bl, br, bm, ml, mr) 1mbackground0m Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when started 1mborder_margin0m Border margin in pixels 1mborder_width0m Border width in pixels 1mcolorN 22mPredefine a color for use inside TEXT segments. Substitute N by a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively. When specifying the color value in hex, omit the leading hash (#). 1mcpu_avg_samples0m The number of samples to average for CPU monitoring 1mtop_cpu_separate0m If true, cpu in top will show usage of one processor’s power. If false, cpu in top will show the usage of all processors’ power combined. 1mdefault_color0m Default color and border color 1mdefault_outline_color0m Default outline color 1mdefault_shade_color0m Default shading color and border’s shading color 1mdouble_buffer0m 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. 1mdraw_borders0m Draw borders around text? 1mdraw_graph_borders0m Draw borders around graphs? 1mdraw_outline0m Draw outlines? 1mdraw_shades0m Draw shades? 1mfont 22mFont name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a nice font 1mgap_x 22mGap, in pixels, between right or left border of screen, same as passing -x at command line, e.g. gap_x 10 1mgap_y 22mGap, in pixels, between top or bottom border of screen, same as passing -y at command line, e.g. gap_y 10. 1mif_up_strictness0m How strict should if_up be when testing an interface for being up? The value is one of up, link or address, to check for the interface being solely up, being up and having link or being up, having link and an assigned IP address. 1mimap 22mDefault global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-f folder] [-p port] [-e command] [-r retries]". De‐ fault port is 143, default folder is ’INBOX’, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of retries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mmail_spool0m Mail spool for mail checking 1mmax_port_monitor_connections0m Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256) 1mmax_specials0m Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns, etc. (default is 512) 1mmax_user_text bytes0m Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout below TEXT line in config file (default is 16384 bytes) 1mtext_buffer_size bytes0m Size of the standard text buffer (default is 256 bytes). This buffer is used for intermediary text, such as individual lines, output from $exec vars, and various other variables. Increasing the size of this buffer can drastically reduce Conky’s perfor‐ mance, but will allow for more text display per variable. The size of this buffer cannot be smaller than the default value of 256 bytes. 1mmaximum_width pixels0m Maximum width of window 1mminimum_size width (height)0m Minimum size of window 1mmpd_host0m Host of MPD server 1mmpd_port0m Port of MPD server 1mmpd_password0m MPD server password 1mmusic_player_interval0m Music player thread update interval (defaults to Conky’s update interval) 1mnet_avg_samples0m The number of samples to average for net data 1mno_buffers0m Substract (file system) buffers from used memory? 1moverride_utf8_locale0m Force UTF8? requires XFT 1mown_window0m Boolean, create own window to draw? 1mown_window_class0m Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to "Conky". 1mown_window_colour colour0m 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) 1mown_window_hints undecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager0m If own_window is yes, you may use these window manager hints to affect the way Conky displays. Notes: Use own_window_type desk‐ top as another way to implement many of these hints implicitly. If you use own_window_type override, window manager hints have no meaning and are ignored. 1mown_window_title0m Manually set the window name. Defaults to " - conky". 1mown_window_transparent0m Boolean, set pseudo-transparency? 1mown_window_type0m if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop, dock or override (default: normal). Desktop windows are special win‐ dows that have no window decorations; are always visible on your desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky across all workspaces. Override windows are not under the con‐ trol of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type of win‐ dow can be useful for certain situations. 1mout_to_console0m Print text to stdout. 1mpad_percents0m Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no padding) 1mpop3 22mDefault global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command] [-r retries]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of re‐ tries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mshort_units0m Shortens units to a single character (kiB->k, GiB->G, etc.). De‐ fault is off. 1mshow_graph_scale0m Shows the maximum value in scaled graphs. 1mshow_graph_range0m Shows the time range covered by a graph. 1mstippled_borders0m Border stippling (dashing) in pixels 1mtemperature_unit0m Desired output unit of all objects displaying a temperature. Parameters are either "fahrenheit" or "celsius". The default unit is degree Celsius. 1mtemplateN0m Define a template for later use inside TEXT segments. Substitute N by a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively. The value of the variable is being inserted into the stuff below TEXT at the cor‐ responding position, but before some substitutions are applied: ’\n’ -> newline ’\\’ -> backslash ’\ ’ -> space ’\N’ -> template argument N 1mtotal_run_times0m Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero makes Conky run forever 1mupdate_interval0m Update interval in seconds 1muppercase0m Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case 1muse_spacer0m Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving oth‐ er things around. Arguments are left, right, and none (default). The old true/false values are deprecated and default to right/none respectively. Note that this only helps if you are using a mono font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. 1muse_xft0m Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff) 1mxftalpha0m Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0. 1mxftfont0m Xft font to use. 1mTEXT 22mAfter this begins text to be formatted on screen. Backslash (\) escapes newlines in the text section. This can be useful for cleaning up config files where conky is used to pipe input to dzen2. 1mVARIABLES0m Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them: /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt. Also, ⟨http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html⟩. Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). 1maddr interface0m IP address for an interface, or "No Address" if no address is assigned. 1maddrs interface0m IP addresses for an interface (if one - works like addr). Linux only. 1macpiacadapter0m ACPI ac adapter state. 1macpifan0m ACPI fan state 1macpitemp0m ACPI temperature in C. 1madt746xcpu0m CPU temperature from therm_adt746x 1madt746xfan0m Fan speed from therm_adt746x 1malignr (num)0m Right-justify text, with space of N 1malignc (num)0m Align text to centre 1mapm_adapter0m Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only) 1mapm_battery_life0m Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only) 1mapm_battery_time0m Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only) 1maudacious_bar (height),(width)0m Progress bar 1maudacious_bitrate0m Bitrate of current tune 1maudacious_channels0m Number of audio channels of current tune 1maudacious_filename0m Full path and filename of current tune 1maudacious_frequency0m Sampling frequency of current tune 1maudacious_length0m Total length of current tune as MM:SS 1maudacious_length_seconds0m Total length of current tune in seconds 1maudacious_playlist_position0m Playlist position of current tune 1maudacious_playlist_length0m Number of tunes in playlist 1maudacious_position0m Position of current tune (MM:SS) 1maudacious_position_seconds0m Position of current tune in seconds 1maudacious_status0m Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running) 1maudacious_title (max length)0m Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier 1maudacious_main_volume0m The current volume fetched from Audacious 1mbattery (num)0m Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). 1mbattery_bar (height),(width) (num)0m Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI bat‐ tery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). 1mbattery_percent (num)0m Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery num‐ ber can be given as argument (default is BAT0). 1mbattery_time (num)0m Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). 1mbmpx_artist0m Artist in current BMPx track 1mbmpx_album0m Album in current BMPx track 1mbmpx_title0m Title of the current BMPx track 1mbmpx_track0m Track number of the current BMPx track 1mbmpx_bitrate0m Bitrate of the current BMPx track 1mbmpx_uri0m URI of the current BMPx track 1mbuffers0m Amount of memory buffered 1mcached 22mAmount of memory cached 1mcolor (color)0m Change drawing color to color 1mcolorN 22mChange drawing color to colorN configuration option, where N is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively. 1mconky_version0m Conky version 1mconky_build_date0m Date Conky was built 1mconky_build_arch0m CPU architecture Conky was built for 1mcpu (cpuN)0m CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs. 1mcpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)0m Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar’s height in pixels. See $cpu for more info on SMP. 1mcpugraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi‐0m 1ment colour 2) (scale) (cpu number)0m CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See $cpu for more info on SMP. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 1mdiskio (device)0m Displays current disk IO. Device is optional, and takes the form of sda for /dev/sda. Individual partitions are allowed. 1mdiskiograph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gra‐0m 1mdient colour 2) (scale) (device)0m Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "nor‐ mal". 1mdiskio_read (device)0m Displays current disk IO for reads. Device as in diskio. 1mdiskiograph_read ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1)0m 1m(gradient colour 2) (scale) (device)0m Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as in diskio. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 1mdiskio_write (device)0m Displays current disk IO for writes. Device as in diskio. 1mdiskiograph_write ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1)0m 1m(gradient colour 2) (scale) (device)0m Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as in diskio. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 1mdisk_protect device0m Disk protection status, if supported (needs kernel-patch). Prints either "frozen" or "free " (note the padding). 1mdownspeed net0m Download speed in KiB 1mdownspeedf net0m Download speed in KiB with one decimal 1mdownspeedgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1)0m 1m(gradient colour 2) (scale) (net)0m Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" in‐ stead of "normal". 1melse 22mText to show if any of the above are not true 1mentropy_avail0m Current entropy available for crypto freaks 1mentropy_bar (height),(width)0m Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks 1mentropy_poolsize0m Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks 1mexec command0m 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. 1mexecbar command0m Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value be‐ tween 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. 1mexecgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi‐0m 1ment colour 2) (scale) command0m Same as execbar, but graphs values. Uses a logaritmic scale when the log option is given (to see small numbers). Values still have to be between 0 and 100. 1mexeci interval command0m Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can’t be less than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci 1mexecibar interval command0m Same as execbar, except with an interval 1mexecigraph interval command0m Same as execgraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values 1mexecp command0m 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. This differs from $exec in that it parses the output of the command, so you can insert things like ${color red}hi!${color} in your script and have it correctly parsed by Conky. Caveats: Conky parses and evaluates the output of $execp every time Conky loops, and then destroys all the objects. If you try to use any‐ thing like $execi within an $execp statement, it will function‐ ally run at the same interval that the $execp statement runs, as it is created and destroyed at every interval. 1mexecpi interval command0m Same as execp but with specific interval. Interval can’t be less than update_interval in configuration. Note that the output from the $execpi command is still parsed and evaluated at every in‐ terval. 1mfont (font)0m Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the cur‐ rent line and everything following. You can use a $font with no arguments to change back to the default font (much like with $color) 1mfreq (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. 1mfreq_g (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. 1mfreq_dyn (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s frequency in MHz (defaults to 1), but is calcu‐ lated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64. 1mfreq_dyn_g (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s frequency in GHz (defaults to 1), but is calcu‐ lated by counting to clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for x86/amd64. 1mfs_bar (height),(width) fs0m 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. 1mfs_free (fs)0m Free space on a file system available for users. 1mfs_free_perc (fs)0m Free percentage of space on a file system available for users. 1mfs_size (fs)0m File system size 1mfs_type (fs)0m File system type 1mfs_used (fs)0m File system used space 1mgoto x 22mThe next element will be printed at position ’x’. 1mgw_iface0m Displays the default route’s interface or "multiple"/"none" ac‐ cordingly. 1mgw_ip 22mDisplays the default gateway’s IP or "multiple"/"none" accord‐ ingly. 1mhddtemp dev, (host,(port))0m Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634. 1mhead logfile lines (interval)0m 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. 1mhr (height)0m Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels 1mhwmon (dev) type n0m Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omit‐ ted if you have only one hwmon device. Parameter type is either ’in’ or ’vol’ meaning voltage; ’fan’ meaning fan; ’temp’ meaning temperature. Parameter n is number of the sensor. See /sys/class/hwmon/ on your local computer. 1miconv_start codeset_from codeset_to0m Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs to be stopped with iconv_stop. 1miconv_stop0m Stop iconv codeset conversion. 1mi2c (dev) type n0m I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted if you have only one I2C device. Parameter type is either ’in’ or ’vol’ meaning voltage; ’fan’ meaning fan; ’temp’ meaning tem‐ perature. Parameter n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer. 1mi8k_ac_status0m 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. 1mi8k_bios0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k. 1mi8k_buttons_status0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k. 1mi8k_cpu_temp0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k. 1mi8k_left_fan_rpm0m 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. 1mi8k_left_fan_status0m 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 re‐ verse order. 1mi8k_right_fan_rpm0m 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. 1mi8k_right_fan_status0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to hu‐ man-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in reverse order. 1mi8k_serial0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k. 1mi8k_version0m If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the version formatting of /proc/i8k. 1mibm_fan0m If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed. 1mibm_temps N0m If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the IBM temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the GPU. 1mibm_volume0m If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, con‐ trolled by the volume keys (0-14). 1mibm_brightness0m If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops’s LCD (0-7). 1mif_empty (var)0m if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between $if_empty and the matching $endif 1mif_existing file (string)0m if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE containing the specified string and prints everything between $if_existing and the matching $endif. 1mif_gw 22mif there is at least one default gateway, display everything be‐ tween $if_gw and the matching $endif 1mif_match expression0m Evaluates the given boolean expression, printing everything be‐ tween $if_match and the matching $endif depending on whether the evaluation returns true or not. Valid expressions consist of a left side, an operator and a right side. Left and right sides are being parsed for contained text objects before evaluation. Recognised left and right side types are: 1mdouble22m: argument consists of only digits and a single dot. 1mlong22m: argument consists of only digits. 1mstring22m: argument is enclosed in quotation mark or the checks for double and long failed before. Valid operands are: ’>’, ’<’, ’>=’, ’<=’, ’==’, ’!=’. 1mif_running (process)0m if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the matching $endif 1mif_mounted (mountpoint)0m if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted and the matching $endif 1mif_smapi_bat_installed (INDEX)0m when using smapi, if the battery with index INDEX is installed, display everything between $if_smapi_bat_installed and the matching $endif 1mif_up (interface)0m if INTERFACE exists and is up, display everything between $if_up and the matching $endif 1mimap_messages (args)0m Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by de‐ fault. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command] [-r retries]". Default port is 143, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of re‐ tries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mimap_unseen (args)0m 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] [-r retries]". Default port is 143, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of re‐ tries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mioscheduler disk0m Prints the current ioscheduler used for the given disk name (i.e. e.g. "hda" or "sdb") 1mkernel 22mKernel version 1mlaptop_mode0m The value of /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode 1mloadavg0m (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes. 1mloadgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi‐0m 1ment colour 2) (scale)0m Load1 average graph, similar to xload, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small num‐ bers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 1mlines textfile0m Displays the number of lines in the given file 1mmachine0m Machine, i686 for example 1mmails (mailbox) (interval)0m Mail count in the specified mailbox or your mail spool if not. Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. You can use a program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using your favourite protocol. See also new_mails. 1mmboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject0m 1mwidth) mbox0m Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format mailbox. mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be encapsu‐ lated using ’"’, ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"} 1mmem 22mAmount of memory in use 1mmembar (height),(width)0m Bar that shows amount of memory in use 1mmemgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi‐0m 1ment colour 2) (scale)0m Memory usage graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small num‐ bers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 1mmemeasyfree0m Amount of free memory including the memory that is very easily freed (buffers/cache) 1mmemfree0m Amount of free memory 1mmemmax 22mTotal amount of memory 1mmemperc0m Percentage of memory in use 1mmixer (device)0m Prints the mixer value as reported by the OS. Default mixer is "vol", but you can specify one of the following optional argu‐ ments: "vol", "bass", "treble", "synth", "pcm", "speaker", "line", "mic", "cd", "mix", "pcm2", "rec", "igain", "ogain", "line1", "line2", "line3", "dig1", "dig2", "dig3", "phin", "phout", "video", "radio", "monitor". Refer to the definition of SOUND_DEVICE_NAMES in (on Linux), (on OpenBSD), or to find the exact op‐ tions available on your system. 1mmixerbar (device)0m Displays mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. 1mmixerr (device)0m Prints the right channel mixer value as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. 1mmixerrbar (device)0m Displays the right channel mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. 1mmixerl (device)0m Prints the left channel mixer value as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. 1mmixerlbar (device)0m Displays the left channel mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. 1mmoc_state0m Current state of MOC; playing, stopped etc. 1mmoc_file0m File name of the current MOC song 1mmoc_title0m Title of the current MOC song 1mmoc_artist0m Artist of the current MOC song 1mmoc_song0m The current song name being played in MOC. 1mmoc_album0m Album of the current MOC song 1mmoc_totaltime0m Total length of the current MOC song 1mmoc_timeleft0m Time left in the current MOC song 1mmoc_curtime0m Current time of the current MOC song 1mmoc_bitrate0m Bitrate in the current MOC song 1mmoc_rate0m Rate of the current MOC song 1mmonitor0m Number of the monitor on which conky is running 1mmonitor_number0m Number of monitors 1mmpd_artist0m Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile 1mmpd_album0m Album in current MPD song 1mmpd_bar (height),(width)0m Bar of mpd’s progress 1mmpd_bitrate0m Bitrate of current song 1mmpd_status0m Playing, stopped, et cetera. 1mmpd_title (max length)0m Title of current MPD song 1mmpd_vol0m MPD’s volume 1mmpd_elapsed0m Song’s elapsed time 1mmpd_length0m Song’s length 1mmpd_percent0m Percent of song’s progress 1mmpd_random0m Random status (On/Off) 1mmpd_repeat0m Repeat status (On/Off) 1mmpd_track0m Prints the MPD track field 1mmpd_name0m Prints the MPD name field 1mmpd_file0m Prints the file name of the current MPD song 1mmpd_smart (max length)0m Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file name, depending on whats available 1mif_mpd_playing0m if mpd is playing or paused, display everything between $if_mpd_playing and the matching $endif 1mnameserver (index)0m Print a nameserver from /etc/resolv.conf. Index starts at and defaults to 0. 1mnew_mails (mailbox) (interval)0m Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if not. Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. 1mnodename0m Hostname 1mnvidia threshold temp gpufreq memfreq imagequality0m Nvidia graficcard support for the XNVCtrl library. Each option can be shortened to the least significant part. Temperatures are printed as float, all other values as integer. 1mthreshold22m: the thresholdtemperature at which the gpu slows down 1mtemp22m: gives the gpu current temperature 1mgpufreq22m: gives the current gpu frequency 1mmemfreq22m: gives the current mem frequency 1mimagequality22m: which imagequality should be choosen by OpenGL ap‐ plications 1moutlinecolor (color)0m Change outline color 1mpb_battery item0m If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat‐ tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are: 1mstatus22m: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharg‐ ing or absent (running on AC) 1mpercent22m: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully charged or absent. 1mtime22m: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if battery is absent or if it’s present but fully charged and not discharging. 1mplatform (dev) type n0m Platform sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted if you have only one platform device. Platform type is either ’in’ or ’vol’ meaning voltage; ’fan’ meaning fan; ’temp’ meaning temperature. Parameter n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/platform/devices/ on your local computer. 1mpop3_unseen (args)0m 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] [-r retries]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of re‐ tries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mpop3_used (args)0m 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] [-r re‐ tries]". Default port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes, and default number of retries before giving up is 5. If the password is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts. 1mpre_exec shell command0m Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything and puts output as text. 1mprocesses0m Total processes (sleeping and running) 1mrunning_processes0m Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6 1mscroll length (step) text0m Scroll ’text’ by ’step’ characters showing ’length’ number of characters at the same time. The text may also contain vari‐ ables. ’step’ is optional and defaults to 1 if not set. If a var creates output on multiple lines then the lines are placed be‐ hind each other separated with a ’|’-sign. Do NOT use vars that change colors or otherwise affect the design inside a scrolling text. If you want spaces between the start and the end of ’text’, place them at the end of ’text’ not at the front ("foo‐ bar" and " foobar" can both generate "barfoo" but "foobar " will keep the spaces like this "bar foo"). 1mshadecolor (color)0m Change shading color 1msmapi (ARGS)0m when using smapi, display contents of the /sys/devices/plat‐ form/smapi directory. ARGS are either ’(FILENAME)’ or ’bat (IN‐ DEX) (FILENAME)’ to display the corresponding files’ content. This is a very raw method of accessing the smapi values. When available, better use one of the smapi_* variables instead. 1msmapi_bat_bar (INDEX),(height),(width)0m when using smapi, display the remaining capacity of the battery with index INDEX as a bar. 1msmapi_bat_perc (INDEX)0m when using smapi, display the remaining capacity in percent of the battery with index INDEX. This is a separate variable be‐ cause it supports the ’use_spacer’ configuration option. 1msmapi_bat_power INDEX0m when using smapi, display the current power of the battery with index INDEX in watt. This is a separate variable because the original read out value is being converted from mW. The sign of the output reflects charging (positive) or discharging (nega‐ tive) state. 1msmapi_bat_temp INDEX0m when using smapi, display the current temperature of the battery with index INDEX in degree Celsius. This is a separate variable because the original read out value is being converted from mil‐ li degree Celsius. 1mstippled_hr (space)0m Stippled (dashed) horizontal line 1mswapbar (height),(width)0m Bar that shows amount of swap in use 1mswap 22mAmount of swap in use 1mswapmax0m Total amount of swap 1mswapperc0m Percentage of swap in use 1msysname0m System name, Linux for example 1mtcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) 4m22m(ip424m 4monly24m 4mat24m 4mpresent)0m TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are: 1mcount 22m- total number of connections in the range 1mrip 22m- remote ip address 1mrhost 22m- remote host name 1mrport 22m- remote port number 1mrservice 22m- remote service name from /etc/services 1mlip 22m- local ip address 1mlhost 22m- local host name 1mlport 22m- local port number 1mlservice 22m- local service name from /etc/services The connection index provides you with access to each connection in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for in‐ dex 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. Examples: 1m${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} 22m- displays the number of connec‐ tions in the bittorrent port range 1m${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} 22m- displays the remote host ip of the first sshd connection 1m${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} 22m- displays the remote host ip of the tenth sshd connection 1m${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} 22m- displays the remote host name of the first connection on a privileged port 1m${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} 22m- displays the remote host port of the fifth connection on a privileged port 1m${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} 22m- displays the local service 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‐ gle port range for different items and different indexes all use the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids creating redundant monitors. 1mtexeci interval command0m 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‐ 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 in‐ terval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi. 1moffset (pixels)0m Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset. 1mrss url delay_in_minutes action item_num0m Download and parse RSS feeds. Action may be one of the follow‐ ing: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num par) and item_titles. 1mtab (width, (start))0m Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column ’start’. 1mtail logfile lines (interval)0m 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. 1mtemplateN (arg1) (arg2) (arg3 ...)0m Evaluate the content of the templateN configuration variable (where N is a value between 0 and 9, inclusively), applying sub‐ stitutions as described in the documentation of the correspond‐ ing configuration variable. The number of arguments is option‐ al, but must match the highest referred index in the template. You can use the same special sequences in each argument as the ones valid for a template definition, e.g. to allow an argument to contain a whitespace. Also simple nesting of templates is possible this way. Here are some examples of template definitions: template0 $\1\2 template1 \1: ${fs_used \2} / ${fs_size \2} template2 \1 \2 The following list shows sample usage of the templates defined above, with the equivalent syntax when not using any template at all: using template same without template ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ${template0 node name} $nodename ${template1 root /} root: ${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /} ${template1 ${template2\ disk\ root} /} disk root: ${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /} 1mtime (format)0m Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for‐ mat 1mutime (format)0m Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time). 1mtztime (timezone) (format)0m Local time for specified timezone, see man strftime to get more information about format. The timezone argument is specified in similar fashion as TZ environment variable. For hints, look in /usr/share/zoneinfo. e.g. US/Pacific, Europe/Zurich, etc. 1mtotaldown net0m 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 al‐ ready done that before conky has started. 1mtop type, num0m This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically, processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu us‐ age, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name", "pid", "cpu", "mem", "mem_res", "mem_vsize", and "time". There can be a max of 10 processes listed. 1mtop_mem type, num0m Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu 1mtop_time type, num0m Same as top, except sorted by total CPU time instead of current CPU usage 1mtotalup net0m Total upload, this one too, may overflow 1mupdates Number of updates0m for debugging 1mupspeed net0m Upload speed in KiB 1mupspeedf net0m Upload speed in KiB with one decimal 1mupspeedgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1)0m 1m(gradient colour 2) (scale) (net)0m Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" in‐ stead of "normal". 1muptime 22mUptime 1muptime_short0m Uptime in a shorter format 1muser_number0m Number of users logged in 1muser_names0m Lists the names of the users logged in 1muser_terms0m Lists the consoles in use 1muser_times0m Lists how long users have been logged in for 1mvoffset (pixels)0m Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset. 1mvoltage_mv (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. 1mvoltage_v (n)0m Returns CPU #n’s voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omit‐ ted, the parameter defaults to 1. 1mwireless_essid net0m Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only) 1mwireless_mode net0m Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only) 1mwireless_bitrate net0m Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only) 1mwireless_ap net0m Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only) 1mwireless_link_qual net0m Wireless link quality (Linux only) 1mwireless_link_qual_max net0m Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only) 1mwireless_link_qual_perc net0m Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only) 1mwireless_link_bar (height), (width) net0m Wireless link quality bar (Linux only) 1mwords textfile0m Displays the number of words in the given file 1mxmms2_artist0m Artist in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_album0m Album in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_title0m Title in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_genre0m Genre in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_comment0m Comment in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_decoder0m Decoder plugin used 1mxmms2_transport0m Transport plugin used 1mxmms2_url0m Full path to current song 1mxmms2_tracknr0m Track number in current XMMS2 song 1mxmms2_bitrate0m Bitrate of current song 1mxmms2_id0m XMMS2 id of current song 1mxmms2_duration0m Duration of current song 1mxmms2_elapsed0m Song’s elapsed time 1mxmms2_size0m Size of current song 1mxmms2_percent0m Percent of song’s progress 1mxmms2_status0m XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected) 1mxmms2_bar (height),(width)0m Bar of XMMS2’s progress 1mxmms2_smart0m Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file name, depending on whats available 1mif_xmms2_connected0m Display everything between $if_xmms2_connected and the matching $endif if xmms2 is running. 1meve api_userid api_key character_id0m Fetches your currently training skill from the Eve Online API servers (http://www.eve-online.com/) and displays the skill along with the remaining training time. 1mEXAMPLES0m conky 1m-t ’${time %D %H:%M}’ -o -u 300m Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30 sec update interval. conky 1m-a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d0m Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500). 1mFILES0m 4m~/.conkyrc24m default configuration file 1mBUGS0m 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. If you do try running Conky in its own window, be sure to read up on the own_window_type settings and experiment. 1mSEE ALSO0m ⟨http://conky.sourceforge.net/⟩ ⟨http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky⟩ #conky on irc.freenode.net 1mCOPYING0m Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license (see LICENSE.BSD for a copy). All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed un‐ der the GPL (see LICENSE.GPL for a copy), except where noted different‐ ly (such as in portmon code, timed thread code, and audacious code which are LGPL, and prss which is an MIT-style license). 1mAUTHORS0m The Conky dev team (see AUTHORS for a full list of contributors). 2008-12-07 conky(1)