NAME
conky - a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but
- more kickass.
+ more kickass. It just keeps on given'er.
SYNOPSIS
conky [options]
DESCRIPTION
- Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
- Since its original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from its
+ Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
+ Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's
predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your
- root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects,
- as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display
+ root desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects,
+ as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display
the output from stdout.
- We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a
+ We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a
developer is welcome. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make
bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
COMPILING
First, make sure you have the X development libraries installed, this
should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".
- Gentoo users, Conky is in Gentoos Portage. Simply use "emerge conky"
+ Gentoo users, Conky is in Gentoo's Portage. Simply use "emerge conky"
for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within
- Conkys package or in CVS.
+ Conky's package or in CVS.
To compile and run Conky with all optional components:
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
- --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window
+ --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window
--enable-proc-uptime --enable-mpd --enable-xft --enable-seti
make
./conky
- Conky doesnt probably compile with other compilers than gcc and icc.
- It doesnt compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
- uses few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn
- casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89).
- Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I dont
+ Conky doesn't probably compile with other compilers than gcc and icc.
+ It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It
+ uses few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-
+ casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89).
+ Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't
know exactly why.
- You can disable drawing to own window feature in case you dont need
+ You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need
it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script.
rest of Conky.
If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
- unless you think something is going seriously wrong (mem leak, et
+ unless you think something is going seriously wrong (mem leak, et
cetera).
Easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1
-t TEXT
- Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t $uptime
+ Text to render, remember single quotes, like -t ' $uptime '
-u SECONDS
CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
- Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
+ Default configuration file is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. You might want to copy
it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
alignment
- Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot
+ Aligned position on screen, may be top_left, top_right, bot-
tom_left, bottom_right, or none
default_shade_color
- Default shading color and borders shading color
+ Default shading color and border's shading color
default_outline_color
double_buffer
- Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom
- mended to use own window with this one so double buffer wont be
+ Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It is highly recom-
+ mended to use own window with this one so double buffer won't be
so big.
own_window_colour colour
If own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour
- (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a
+ (defaults to black). Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a
valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
VARIABLES
Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html
- Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex). Note that when displaying
- bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes
- and not 1000*1000.
+ [http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html] Color can be also in #rrggbb format
+ (hex). Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so
+ 1M really means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
addr (interface)
IP address for an interface
battery (num)
- Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number
+ Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number
can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
cpubar (cpu number) (height),(width)
- Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bars height in pixels
+ Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels
- cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
+ cpugraph (cpu number) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
colour 2)
CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. See
$cpu for more info on SMP.
diskio Displays current disk IO.
- diskiograph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)
+ diskiograph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2)
(scale)
Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale is
non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal
- downspeedgraph net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
+ downspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient
colour 2) (scale)
Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
exec command
- Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn
- ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. Id
+ Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warn-
+ ing: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.
execi interval command
- Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval cant be less
+ Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less
than update_interval in configuration.
freq_dyn
Returns CPU frequency in MHz, but is calculated by counting to
- clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
+ clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
x86/amd64.
freq_dyn_g
Returns CPU frequency in GHz, but is calculated by counting to
- clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
+ clock cycles to complete an instruction. Only available for
x86/amd64.
head logfile lines (interval)
Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval
- is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conkys interval. Max of 30
+ is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30
lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
i2c (dev), type, n
- I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev may be omitted if you
- have only one I2C device. type is either in (or vol) meaning
+ I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev may be omitted if you
+ have only one I2C device. type is either in (or vol) meaning
voltage, fan meaning fan or temp/tempf (first in C, second in F)
meaning temperature. n is number of the sensor. See
/sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local computer.
i8k_left_fan_rpm
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
- the left fans rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
+ the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
in reverse order.
i8k_left_fan_status
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
+ the left fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to human-
+ readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
reverse order.
i8k_right_fan_rpm
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays
- the right fans rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
+ the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans
in reverse order.
mpd_bar (height),(width)
- Bar of mpds progress
+ Bar of mpd's progress
mpd_bitrate
mpd_vol
- MPDs volume
+ MPD's volume
mpd_elapsed
- Songs elapsed time
+ Song's elapsed time
mpd_length
- Songs length
+ Song's length
mpd_percent
- Percent of songs progress
+ Percent of song's progress
new_mails
tail logfile lines (interval)
Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is
- not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conkys interval. Max of 30 lines
+ not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines
can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled.
time (format)
- Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for
+ Local time, see man strftime to get more information about for-
mat
totaldown net
Total download, overflows at 4 GB on Linux with 32-bit arch and
- there doesnt seem to be a way to know how many times it has
+ there doesn't seem to be a way to know how many times it has
already done that before conky has started.
top type, num
This takes arguments in the form:top (name) (number) Basically,
- processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu
- usage, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
- "pid", "cpu", and mem". There can be a max of 10 processes
+ processes are ranked from highest to lowest in terms of cpu
+ usage, which is what (num) represents. The types are: "name",
+ "pid", "cpu", and mem". There can be a max of 10 processes
listed.
Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal
- upspeedgraph net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
+ upspeedgraph net (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour
2) (scale)
Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If
scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph.
EXAMPLES
- conky -t${time %D %H:%m}-o -u 30
+ conky -t '${time %D %H:%m}' -o -u 30
Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30
sec update interval.
~/.conkyrc default configuration file
BUGS
- Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesnt work with
- all window managers. Especially doesnt work well with Gnome and it has
- been reported that it doesnt 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
+ 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.
SEE ALSO
- http://conky.sourceforge.net
+ http://conky.sourceforge.net [http://conky.sourceforge.net]
- http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky
+ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky [http://www.source-
+ forge.net/projects/conky]
#conky on irc.freenode.net
AUTHORS
- The Conky dev team. Whats up now??!
+ The Conky dev team. What's up now??!
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