1mif_updatenr (updatenr)0m
- If it's the UPDATENR-th time that conky updates, display every-
- thing between $if_updatenr and the matching $endif. The counter
- resets when the highest UPDATENR is reached.
- Example : "{$if_updatenr 1}foo$endif{$if_updatenr 2}bar$endif
- {$if_updatenr 4}$endif" shows foo 25% of the time followed by
- bar 25% of the time followed by nothing the other half of the
- time.
+ If it’s the UPDATENR-th time that conky updates, display every‐
+ thing between $if_updatenr and the matching $endif. The counter
+ resets when the highest UPDATENR is reached. Example :
+ "{$if_updatenr 1}foo$endif{$if_updatenr 2}bar$endif{$if_updatenr
+ 4}$endif" shows foo 25% of the time followed by bar 25% of the
+ time followed by nothing the other half of the time.
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
+ 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‐
1mioscheduler disk0m
- Prints the current ioscheduler used for the given disk name
+ Prints the current ioscheduler used for the given disk name
(i.e. e.g. "hda" or "sdb")
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‐
+ 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".
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
+ 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.
1mseen_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails marked as seen in the specified mailbox or mail
- spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
+ Number of mails marked as seen in the specified mailbox or mail
+ spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
type will return -1.
1munseen_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of new or unseen mails in the specified mailbox or mail
- spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
+ Number of new or unseen mails in the specified mailbox or mail
+ spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
type will return -1.
1mflagged_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails marked as flagged in the specified mailbox or
- mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
+ Number of mails marked as flagged in the specified mailbox or
+ mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
1munflagged_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails not marked as flagged in the specified mailbox
+ Number of mails not marked as flagged in the specified mailbox
or mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
1mforwarded_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails marked as forwarded in the specified mailbox or
- mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
+ Number of mails marked as forwarded in the specified mailbox or
+ mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
1mreplied_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails marked as replied in the specified mailbox or
- mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
+ Number of mails marked as replied in the specified mailbox or
+ mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
1munreplied_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails not marked as replied in the specified mailbox
+ Number of mails not marked as replied in the specified mailbox
or mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
1mdraft_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
Number of mails marked as draft in the specified mailbox or mail
- spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
+ spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
type will return -1.
1mtrashed_mails (maildir) (interval)0m
- Number of mails marked as trashed in the specified mailbox or
- mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
+ Number of mails marked as trashed in the specified mailbox or
+ mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported,
mbox type will return -1.
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‐
+ 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"}
Bar that shows amount of memory in use
- 1mmemgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradi‐0m
+ 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‐
+ 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
+ Amount of free memory including the memory that is very easily
freed (buffers/cache)
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‐
+ 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",
+ "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 <linux/soundcard.h> (on Linux), <sound‐
+ SOUND_DEVICE_NAMES in <linux/soundcard.h> (on Linux), <sound‐
card.h> (on OpenBSD), or <sys/soundcard.h> 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Displays the left channel mixer value in a bar as reported by
the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
1mif_mpd_playing0m
- if mpd is playing or paused, display everything between
+ 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
+ Print a nameserver from /etc/resolv.conf. Index starts at and
defaults to 0.
1mnvidia threshold temp ambient gpufreq memfreq imagequality0m
- Nvidia graficcard support for the XNVCtrl library. Each option
- can be shortened to the least significant part. Temperatures
+ 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
1mpb_battery item0m
If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat‐
- tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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_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‐
+ 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
+ is supplied as ’*’, you will be prompted to enter the password
when Conky starts.
1mscroll length (step) text0m
- Scroll ’text’ by ’step’ characters showing ’length’ number of
- characters at the same time. The text may also contain vari‐
+ 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‐
+ 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").
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
+ 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
+ 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‐
+ 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‐
+ 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
+ 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.
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
+ 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‐
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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‐
+ 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.
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
+ 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.
1mtemplateN (arg1) (arg2) (arg3 ...)0m
- Evaluate the content of the templateN configuration variable
+ 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
+ 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:
template1 \1: ${fs_used \2} / ${fs_size \2}
template2 \1 \2
- The following list shows sample usage of the templates defined
+ The following list shows sample usage of the templates defined
above, with the equivalent syntax when not using any template at
all:
1mtime (format)0m
- Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for‐
+ Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for‐
mat
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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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_time type, num0m
- Same as top, except sorted by total CPU time instead of current
+ Same as top, except sorted by total CPU time instead of current
CPU usage
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‐
+ 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".
1mvoffset (pixels)0m
- Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause
+ 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
+ Returns CPU #n’s voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1mif_xmms2_connected0m
- Display everything between $if_xmms2_connected and the matching
+ 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
+ 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.
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
+ 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
+ in its own window, be sure to read up on the own_window_type settings
and experiment.
1mSEE ALSO0m
#conky on irc.freenode.net
1mCOPYING0m
- Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. Any
+ 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
+ ly (such as in portmon code, timed thread code, and audacious code
which are LGPL, and prss which is an MIT-style license).
1mAUTHORS0m
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