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 Border stippling (dashing) in pixels
378 Total number of times for Conky to update before quitting. Zero
379 makes Conky run forever
383 Update interval in seconds
387 Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper case
391 Adds spaces after certain objects to stop them from moving other
392 things around. Note that this only helps if you are using a mono
393 font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
397 Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
401 Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0.
408 TEXT After this begins text to be formatted on screen
412 Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
413 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html>.
414 Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). Note that when displaying
415 bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes
419 IP address for an interface
423 ACPI ac adapter state.
431 ACPI temperature in C.
435 ACPI temperature in F.
439 CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
443 Fan speed from therm_adt746x
447 Right-justify text, with space of N
455 Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only)
459 Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only)
463 Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if
464 AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only)
467 audacious_bar (height),(width)
472 Bitrate of current tune
476 Number of audio channels of current tune
480 Full path and filename of current tune
484 Sampling frequency of current tune
488 Total length of current tune as MM:SS
491 audacious_length_seconds
492 Total length of current tune in seconds
495 audacious_playlist_position
496 Playlist position of current tune
499 audacious_playlist_length
500 Number of tunes in playlist
504 Position of current tune (MM:SS)
507 audacious_position_seconds
508 Position of current tune in seconds
512 Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running)
515 audacious_title (max length)
516 Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier
520 Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM
521 battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default
525 battery_bar (height),(width) (num)
526 Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI bat-
527 tery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
530 battery_percent (num)
531 Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery num-
532 ber can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
536 Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI
537 battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
541 Artist in current BMPx track
545 Album in current BMPx track
549 Title of the current BMPx track
553 Track number of the current BMPx track
557 Bitrate of the current BMPx track
561 URI of the current BMPx track
565 Amount of memory buffered
568 cached Amount of memory cached
572 Change drawing color to color
575 color0 Change drawing color to color0 configuration option
578 color1 Change drawing color to color1 configuration option
581 color2 Change drawing color to color2 configuration option
584 color3 Change drawing color to color3 configuration option
587 color4 Change drawing color to color4 configuration option
590 color5 Change drawing color to color5 configuration option
593 color6 Change drawing color to color6 configuration option
596 color7 Change drawing color to color7 configuration option
599 color8 Change drawing color to color8 configuration option
602 color9 Change drawing color to color9 configuration option
606 CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be
607 provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and
608 ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
611 cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
612 Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See
613 $cpu for more info on SMP.
616 cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
618 CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See
619 $cpu for more info on SMP.
622 diskio Displays current disk IO.
625 diskiograph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)
627 Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is
628 non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
632 Displays current disk IO for reads.
635 diskiograph_read (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
637 Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
638 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
642 Displays current disk IO for writes.
645 diskiograph_write (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
647 Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
648 If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
652 Download speed in kilobytes
656 Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
659 downspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
661 Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
662 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
665 else Text to show if any of the above are not true
669 Current entropy available for crypto freaks
672 entropy_bar (height),(width)
673 Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks
677 Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks
681 Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
682 ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
683 recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
687 Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value be-
688 tween 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the
689 bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future.
693 Same as execbar, but graphs values.
696 execi interval command
697 Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
698 than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci
701 execibar interval command
702 Same as execbar, except with an interval
705 execigraph interval command
706 Same as execigraph, but takes an interval arg graphs values
710 Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the cur-
711 rent line and everything following. You can use a $font with no
712 arguments to change back to the default font (much like with
717 Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
718 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
722 Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If
723 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
727 Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to
728 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
733 Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to
734 clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
738 fs_bar (height),(width) fs
739 Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system. height
740 is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
744 Free space on a file system available for users.
748 Free percentage of space on a file system available for users.
756 File system used space
759 goto x The next element will be printed at position 'x'.
762 hddtemp dev, (host,(port))
763 Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported
764 by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is
765 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634.
768 head logfile lines (interval)
769 Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
770 is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
771 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
775 Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels
779 Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omit-
780 ted if you have only one hwmon device. Parameter type is either
781 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Cel-
782 sius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n
783 is number of the sensor. See /sys/class/hwmon/ on your local
787 iconv_start codeset_from codeset_to
788 Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs
789 to be stopped with iconv_stop.
793 Stop iconv codeset conversion.
797 I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted
798 if you have only one I2C device. Parameter type is either 'in'
799 or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' (Celsius) or
800 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter n is number
801 of the sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
805 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
806 whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
807 human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by
812 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
813 the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
817 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
818 the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
822 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
823 the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
827 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
828 the cpu temperature in Fahrenheit, as reported by /proc/i8k.
832 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
833 the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
834 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
839 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
840 the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-
841 readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in re-
846 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
847 the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
848 listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
853 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
854 the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to hu-
855 man-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
860 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
861 your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
865 If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
866 the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
870 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
874 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the IBM
875 temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the
880 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, con-
881 trolled by the volume keys (0-14).
885 If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops's
890 if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between
891 $if_empty and the matching $endif
895 if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the
899 if_existing file (string)
900 if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the
901 matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE
902 containing the specified string and prints everything between
903 $if_existing and the matching $endif.
906 if_mounted (mountpoint)
907 if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted
908 and the matching $endif
912 Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by de-
913 fault. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
914 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
915 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
916 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
917 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
921 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox
922 by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately by
923 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
924 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 143, de-
925 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
926 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
929 kernel Kernel version
933 (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past
934 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes.
938 Machine, i686 for example
941 mails (mailbox) (interval)
942 Mail count in the specified mailbox or your mail spool if not.
943 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. You can use
944 a program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using
945 your favourite protocol. See also new_mails.
948 mboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject
950 Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format mailbox.
951 mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be encapsu-
952 lated using '"', ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"}
955 mem Amount of memory in use
958 membar (height),(width)
959 Bar that shows amount of memory in use
962 memmax Total amount of memory
966 Percentage of memory in use
970 Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile
974 Album in current MPD song
977 mpd_bar (height),(width)
978 Bar of mpd's progress
982 Bitrate of current song
986 Playing, stopped, et cetera.
989 mpd_title (max length)
990 Title of current MPD song
1006 Percent of song's progress
1010 Random status (On/Off)
1014 Repeat status (On/Off)
1018 Prints the MPD track field
1022 Prints the MPD name field
1026 Prints the file name of the current MPD song
1030 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1031 name, depending on whats available
1034 new_mails (mailbox) (interval)
1035 Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if not.
1036 Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported.
1043 outlinecolor (color)
1044 Change outline color
1048 If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on bat-
1049 tery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
1050 display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are:
1052 status: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharg-
1053 ing or absent (running on AC)
1054 percent: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or
1055 discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully
1057 time: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully
1058 charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if
1059 battery is absent or if it's present but fully charged and not
1063 platform (dev) type n
1064 Platform sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be
1065 omitted if you have only one platform device. Platform type is
1066 either 'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp'
1067 (Celsius) or 'tempf' (Fahrenheit) meaning temperature. Parameter
1068 n is number of the sensor. See /sys/bus/platform/devices/ on
1069 your local computer.
1073 Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox
1074 by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately by
1075 passing arguments to this object. Arguments are: "host user pass
1076 [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default port is 110, de-
1077 fault interval is 5 minutes. If the password is supplied as '*',
1078 you will be prompted to enter the password when Conky starts.
1082 Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global
1083 POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes
1084 seperately by passing arguments to this object. Arguments are:
1085 "host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]". Default
1086 port is 110, default interval is 5 minutes. If the password is
1087 supplied as '*', you will be prompted to enter the password when
1091 pre_exec shell command
1092 Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything
1093 and puts output as text.
1097 Total processes (sleeping and running)
1101 Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6
1105 Change shading color
1109 Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
1112 swapbar (height),(width)
1113 Bar that shows amount of swap in use
1116 swap Amount of swap in use
1120 Total amount of swap
1124 Percentage of swap in use
1128 System name, Linux for example
1131 tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) (ip4 only at present)
1132 TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be
1133 in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are:
1135 count - total number of connections in the range
1136 rip - remote ip address
1137 rhost - remote host name
1138 rport - remote port number
1139 rservice - remote service name from /etc/services
1140 lip - local ip address
1141 lhost - local host name
1142 lport - local port number
1143 lservice - local service name from /etc/services
1145 The connection index provides you with access to each connection
1146 in the port monitor. The monitor will return information for in-
1147 dex values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values higher than n-1 are
1148 simply ignored. For the "count" item, the connection index must
1149 be omitted. It is required for all other items.
1152 ${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count} - displays the number of connec-
1153 tions in the bittorrent port range
1154 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} - displays the remote host ip of the
1155 first sshd connection
1156 ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9} - displays the remote host ip of the
1157 tenth sshd connection
1158 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0} - displays the remote host name of
1159 the first connection on a privileged port
1160 ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4} - displays the remote host port of
1161 the fifth connection on a privileged port
1162 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14} - displays the local service
1163 name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports
1165 Note that port monitor variables which share the same port range
1166 actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a sin-
1167 gle port range for different items and different indexes all use
1168 the same monitor internally. In other words, the program avoids
1169 creating redundant monitors.
1171 texeci interval command
1172 Runs a command at an interval inside a thread and displays the
1173 output. Same as $execi, except the command is run inside a
1174 thread. Use this if you have a slow script to keep Conky updat-
1175 ing. You should make the interval slightly longer then the time
1176 it takes your script to execute. For example, if you have a
1177 script that take 5 seconds to execute, you should make the in-
1178 terval at least 6 seconds. See also $execi.
1182 Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
1185 rss url delay_in_minutes action item_num
1186 Download and parse RSS feeds. Action may be one of the follow-
1187 ing: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num
1188 par) and item_titles.
1191 tab (width, (start))
1192 Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column 'start'.
1195 tail logfile lines (interval)
1196 Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
1197 not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
1198 can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
1202 Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
1207 Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time).
1210 tztime (timezone) (format)
1211 Local time for specified timezone, see man strftime to get more
1212 information about format. The timezone argument is specified in
1213 similar fashion as TZ environment variable. For hints, look in
1214 /usr/share/zoneinfo. e.g. US/Pacific, Europe/Zurich, etc.
1218 Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
1219 there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has al-
1220 ready done that before conky has started.
1224 This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically,
1225 processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu us-
1226 age, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
1227 "pid", "cpu", "mem", and "time". There can be a max of 10 pro-
1232 Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu
1236 Total upload, this one too, may overflow
1239 updates Number of updates
1244 Upload speed in kilobytes
1248 Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
1251 upspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
1253 Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
1254 scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
1261 Uptime in a shorter format
1265 Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause
1266 text to overlap. See also $offset.
1270 Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
1271 omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1275 Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omit-
1276 ted, the parameter defaults to 1.
1280 Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only)
1284 Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only)
1287 wireless_bitrate net
1288 Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only)
1292 Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only)
1295 wireless_link_qual net
1296 Wireless link quality (Linux only)
1299 wireless_link_qual_max net
1300 Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only)
1303 wireless_link_qual_perc net
1304 Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only)
1307 wireless_link_bar (height), (width) net
1308 Wireless link quality bar (Linux only)
1312 Artist in current XMMS2 song
1316 Album in current XMMS2 song
1320 Title in current XMMS2 song
1324 Genre in current XMMS2 song
1328 Comment in current XMMS2 song
1336 Transport plugin used
1340 Full path to current song
1344 Track number in current XMMS2 song
1348 Bitrate of current song
1352 XMMS2 id of current song
1356 Duration of current song
1364 Size of current song
1368 Percent of song's progress
1372 XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected)
1375 xmms2_bar (height),(width)
1376 Bar of XMMS2's progress
1380 Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file
1381 name, depending on whats available
1385 conky -t '${time %D %H:%M}' -o -u 30
1386 Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
1387 sec update interval.
1389 conky -a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d
1390 Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).
1393 ~/.conkyrc default configuration file
1396 Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
1397 all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
1398 been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
1399 disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
1400 show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in
1401 Conky to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree
1402 useful to find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument
1403 which makes Conky to create its own window.
1406 <http://conky.sourceforge.net>
1408 <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky>
1410 #conky on irc.freenode.net
1413 The Conky dev team. What's up now!