conky/doc/config_settings.xml

<variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>TEXT</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>After 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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>alignment</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Aligned position on screen, may be top_left,
        top_right, top_middle, bottom_left, bottom_right,
        bottom_middle, middle_left, middle_right, or none (also can
        be abreviated as tl, tr, tm, bl, br, bm, ml, mr). See also
        gap_x and gap_y. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>append_file</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Append the file given as argument. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>background</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to
        background when started. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>border_inner_margin</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Inner border margin in pixels (the margin between
        the border and text). 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>border_outer_margin</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Outer border margin in pixels (the margin between
        the border and the edge of the window). 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>border_width</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Border width in pixels. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>colorN</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Predefine 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
        (#). 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>cpu_avg_samples</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>The number of samples to average for CPU
        monitoring. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_bar_size</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Specify a default width and height for bars.
        Example: 'default_bar_size 0 6'. This is particularly
        useful for execbar and execibar as they do not take size
        arguments. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_color</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Default color and border color 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_gauge_size</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Specify a default width and height for gauges.
        Example: 'default_gauge_size 25 25'. This is particularly
        useful for execgauge and execigauge as they do not take
        size arguments 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_graph_size</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Specify a default width and height for graphs.
        Example: 'default_graph_size 0 25'. This is particularly
        useful for execgraph and execigraph as they do not take
        size arguments 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_outline_color</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Default outline color 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>default_shade_color</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Default shading color and border's shading color 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>diskio_avg_samples</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>The number of samples to average for disk I/O
        monitoring. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>display</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Specify an X display to connect to. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>double_buffer</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker) It
        is highly recommended to use own window with this one so
        double buffer won't be so big. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>draw_borders</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Draw borders around text? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>draw_graph_borders</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Draw borders around graphs? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>draw_outline</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Draw outlines? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>draw_shades</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Draw shades? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>extra_newline</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Put an extra newline at the end when writing to
        stdout, useful for writing to awesome's wiboxes. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>font</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Font name in X, xfontsel can be used to get a
        nice font 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>format_human_readable</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>If enabled, values which are in bytes will be
        printed in human readable format (i.e., KiB, MiB, etc). If
        disabled, the number of bytes is printed instead. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>gap_x</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Gap, in pixels, between right or left border of
        screen, same as passing -x at command line, e.g. gap_x 10.
        For other position related stuff, see 'alignment'. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>gap_y</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Gap, in pixels, between top or bottom border of
        screen, same as passing -y at command line, e.g. gap_y 10.
        For other position related stuff, see 'alignment'. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>if_up_strictness</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>imap</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Default global IMAP server. Arguments are: "host
        user pass [-i interval (in seconds)] [-f folder] [-p port]
        [-e command] [-r retries]". Default 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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>imlib_cache_flush_interval</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Interval (in seconds) to flush Imlib2 cache. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>imlib_cache_size</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>
            <para>Imlib2 image cache size, in bytes. Defaults to
            4MiB. Increase this value if you use $image lots. Set
            to 0 to disable the image cache.</para>
        </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>lua_draw_hook_post</option>
            </command>
            <option>function_name [function arguments]</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
            <para>This function, if defined, will be called by
            Conky through each iteration after drawing to the
            window. Requires X support. Takes any number of
            optional arguments. Use this hook for drawing things on
            top of what Conky draws. Conky puts 'conky_' in front
            of function_name to prevent accidental calls to the
            wrong function unless you put you place 'conky_' in
            front of it yourself.</para>
        </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>lua_draw_hook_pre</option>
            </command>
            <option>function_name [function arguments]</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
            <para>This function, if defined, will be called by
            Conky through each iteration before drawing to the
            window. Requires X support. Takes any number of
            optional arguments. Use this hook for drawing things on
            top of what Conky draws. Conky puts 'conky_' in front
            of function_name to prevent accidental calls to the
            wrong function unless you put you place 'conky_' in
            front of it yourself.</para>
        </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>lua_load</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Loads the Lua scripts separated by spaces. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>lua_shutdown_hook</option>
            </command>
            <option>function_name [function arguments]</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
            <para>This function, if defined, will be called by
            Conky at shutdown or when the configuration is
            reloaded. Use this hook to clean up after yourself,
            such as freeing memory which has been allocated by
            external libraries via Lua. Conky puts 'conky_' in
            front of function_name to prevent accidental calls to
            the wrong function unless you put you place 'conky_' in
            front of it yourself.</para>
        </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>mail_spool</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Mail spool for mail checking 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>max_port_monitor_connections</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Allow each port monitor to track at most this
        many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>max_specials</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts,
        offsets, aligns, etc. (default is 512) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>max_user_text</option>
            </command>
            <option>bytes</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout
        below TEXT line in config file (default is 16384 bytes) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>maximum_width</option>
            </command>
            <option>pixels</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>Maximum width of window 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>minimum_size</option>
            </command>
            <option>width (height)</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>Minimum size of window 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>mpd_host</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Host of MPD server 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>mpd_password</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>MPD server password 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>mpd_port</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Port of MPD server 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>music_player_interval</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Music player thread update interval (defaults to
        Conky's update interval) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>net_avg_samples</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>The number of samples to average for net data 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>no_buffers</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Substract (file system) buffers from used memory?
        
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>out_to_console</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Print text to stdout. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>out_to_ncurses</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Print text in the console, but use ncurses so
        that conky can print the text of a new update over the old
        text. (In the future this will provide more useful things) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>out_to_stderr</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Print text to stderr. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>out_to_x</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>When set to no, there will be no output in X
        (useful when you also use things like out_to_console). If
        you set it to no, make sure that it's placed before all
        other X-related setting (take the first line of your
        configfile to be sure). Default value is yes 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>override_utf8_locale</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Force UTF8? requires XFT 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>overwrite_file</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Overwrite the file given as argument. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Boolean, create own window to draw? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_class</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Manually set the WM_CLASS name. Defaults to
        "Conky". 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_colour</option>
            </command>
            <option>colour</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>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) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_hints</option>
            </command>
            <option>
            undecorated,below,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>If own_window is yes, you may use these window
        manager hints to affect the way Conky displays. Notes: Use
        own_window_type desktop 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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_title</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Manually set the window name. Defaults to
        "&lt;hostname&gt; - conky". 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_transparent</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Boolean, set pseudo-transparency? 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>own_window_type</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>if own_window is yes, you may specify type
        normal, desktop, dock, panel or override (default: normal).
        Desktop windows are special windows 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. Panel windows reserve space along a desktop
        edge, just like panels and taskbars, preventing maximized
        windows from overlapping them. The edge is chosen based on
        the alignment option. Override windows are not under the
        control of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type
        of window can be useful for certain situations. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>pad_percents</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Pad percentages to this many decimals (0 = no
        padding) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>pop3</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Default global POP3 server. Arguments are: "host
        user pass [-i interval (in seconds)] [-p port] [-e command]
        [-r retries]". 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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>short_units</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Shortens units to a single character (kiB-&gt;k,
        GiB-&gt;G, etc.). Default is off. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>show_graph_range</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Shows the time range covered by a graph. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>show_graph_scale</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Shows the maximum value in scaled graphs. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>stippled_borders</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Border stippling (dashing) in pixels 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>temperature_unit</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Desired output unit of all objects displaying a
        temperature. Parameters are either "fahrenheit" or
        "celsius". The default unit is degree Celsius. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>templateN</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>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 corresponding position,
        but before some substitutions are applied: 
        <simplelist>
            <member>'\n' -&gt; newline</member>
            <member>'\\' -&gt; backslash</member>
            <member>'\ ' -&gt; space</member>
            <member>'\N' -&gt; template argument N</member>
        </simplelist>
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>text_buffer_size</option>
            </command>
            <option>bytes</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>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 performance, but will allow for
        more text display per variable. The size of this buffer
        cannot be smaller than the default value of 256 bytes. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>top_cpu_separate</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>top_name_width</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Width for $top name value (defaults to 15
        characters). 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>total_run_times</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Total number of times for Conky to update before
        quitting. Zero makes Conky run forever 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>update_interval</option>
            </command>
            <option>seconds</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>Update interval 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>update_interval_on_battery</option>
            </command>
            <option>seconds</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>Update interval when running on batterypower 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>uppercase</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Boolean value, if true, text is rendered in upper
        case 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>use_spacer</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them
        from moving other 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. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>use_xft</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff) 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>xftalpha</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between
        1 and 0. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term>
            <command>
                <option>xftfont</option>
            </command>
        </term>
        <listitem>Xft font to use. 
        <para /></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
</variablelist>