ACPI ac adapter state. On linux, the adapter option
specifies the subfolder of
/sys/class/power_supply containing the state
information (tries "AC" and "ADP1" if there is no argument given).
Non-linux systems ignore it.
ACPI fan state.
ACPI temperature in C.
IP address for an interface, or "No Address" if no address
is assigned.
IP addresses for an interface (if one - works like addr).
Linux only.
CPU temperature from therm_adt746x.
Fan speed from therm_adt746x.
Align text to centre.
Right-justify text, with space of N.
Sets up the connection to apcupsd daemon. Prints nothing,
defaults to localhost:3551.
Prints the UPS connection type.
Current battery capacity in percent.
Reason for last transfer from line to battery.
Nominal input voltage.
Current load in percent.
Bar showing current load.
Gauge that shows current load.
History graph of current load.
Prints the model of the UPS.
Prints the UPS user-defined name.
Prints current status (on-line, on-battery).
Current internal temperature.
Time left to run on battery.
Prints the UPS mode (e.g. standalone).
Display APM AC adapter status. FreeBSD, OpenBSD only.
Display APM battery life in percent. FreeBSD, OpenBSD only.
Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown"
if AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging. FreeBSD, OpenBSD only.
Progress bar.
Bitrate of current tune.
Number of audio channels of current tune.
Full path and filename of current tune.
Sampling frequency of current tune.
Total length of current tune as MM:SS.
Total length of current tune in seconds.
The current volume fetched from Audacious.
Number of tunes in playlist.
Playlist position of current tune.
Position of current tune (MM:SS).
Position of current tune in seconds.
Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running).
Title of current tune with optional maximum length
specifier.
Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or
APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is
BAT0).
Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI
battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0, use all to
get the mean percentage remaining for all batteries).
Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery
number can be given as argument (default is BAT0, use all to get the
mean percentage remaining for all batteries).
Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or
APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is
BAT0). This mode display a short status, which means that C is
displayed instead of charging, D for discharging, F for full, N for
not present, E for empty and U for unknown.
Battery status for ACPI battery. ACPI battery number can be
given as argument (default is BAT0).
Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery.
ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).
Let 'text_and_other_conky_vars' blink on and off.
Amount of memory buffered.
Amount of memory cached.
Reads a file and displays the contents in conky. This is
useful if you have an independent process generating output that you
want to include in conky.
Reads a file and displays the contents in conky. This is
useful if you have an independent process generating output that you
want to include in conky. This differs from $cat in that it parses the
contents of the file, so you can insert things like ${color
red}hi!${color} in your file and have it correctly parsed by Conky.
PID of the first process that has string in its commandline.
Print aaa status of cmus (all/artist/album).
Prints the album of the current cmus song.
Prints the artist of the current cmus song.
Current time of the current cmus song.
Print the file name of the current cmus song.
Print the date of the current cmus song.
Print the genre name of the current cmus song.
Percent of song's progress.
cmus' progress bar.
Random status of cmus (on/off).
Repeat status of cmus (song/all/off).
Current state of cmus (playing, paused, stopped etc).
Time left of the current cmus song.
Prints the title of the current cmus song.
Total length of the current cmus song.
Print track number of current cmus song.
Change drawing color to 'color' which is a name of a color
or a hexcode preceded with #, e.g. #0A1B2C. If you use ncurses only
the following colors are supported: red, green, yellow, blue, magenta,
cyan, black, and white.
Change drawing color to colorN configuration option, where N
is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively.
Places the lines of var2 to the right of the lines of var1
separated by the chars that are put between var1 and var2. For
example: ${combine ${head /proc/cpuinfo 2} - ${head /proc/meminfo 1}}
gives as output "cpuinfo_line1 - meminfo_line1" on line 1 and
"cpuinfo_line2 -" on line 2. $combine vars can also be nested to place
more vars next to each other.
CPU architecture Conky was built for.
Date Conky was built.
Conky version.
CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can
be provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and ${cpu
cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels.
See $cpu for more info on SMP.
Elliptical gauge that shows CPU usage, height and width are
gauge's vertical and horizontal axis respectively. See $cpu for more
info on SMP.
CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #.
See $cpu for more info on SMP. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small
numbers) when you use the -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a
temperature gradient, which makes the gradient values change depending
on the amplitude of a particular graph value (try it and see).
Download data from URI using Curl at the specified interval.
The interval may be a positive floating point value (0 is allowed),
otherwise defaults to 15 minutes. Most useful when used in conjunction
with Lua and the Lua API. This object is threaded, and once a thread
is created it can't be explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for
each URI specified. You can use any protocol that Curl supports.
Number of the desktop on which conky is running or the
message "Not running in X" if this is the case.
Name of the desktop on which conky is running or the message
"Not running in X" if this is the case.
Number of desktops or the message "Not running in X" if this
is the case.
Disk protection status, if supported (needs kernel-patch).
Prints either "frozen" or "free " (note the padding).
Displays current disk IO. Device is optional, and takes the
form of sda for /dev/sda. A block device label can be specified with
label:foo and a block device partuuid can be specified with
partuuid:40000000-01.
Displays current disk IO for reads. Device as in diskio.
Displays current disk IO for writes. Device as in diskio.
Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. If scale
is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Uses a logarithmic
scale (to see small numbers) when you use -l switch. Takes the switch
'-t' to use a temperature gradient, which makes the gradient values
change depending on the amplitude of a particular graph value (try it
and see).
Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the
#. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as
in diskio. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you
use -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a temperature gradient,
which makes the gradient values change depending on the amplitude of a
particular graph value (try it and see).
Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the
#. If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Device as
in diskio. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you
use -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a temperature gradient,
which makes the gradient values change depending on the amplitude of a
particular graph value (try it and see).
The name of the distribution. It could be that some of the
untested distributions will show up wrong or as "unknown", if that's
the case post a bug on sourceforge, make sure it contains the name of
your distribution, the contents of
/proc/version and if there is a file that
only exists on your distribution, also add the path of that file in
the bug. If there is no such file, please add another way which we can
use to identify your distribution.
Download speed in suitable IEC units.
Download speed in KiB with one decimal.
Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #.
If scale is non-zero, it becomes the scale for the graph. Uses a
logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use -l switch. Takes
the switch '-t' to use a temperature gradient, which makes the
gradient values change depending on the amplitude of a particular
graph value (try it and see).
Number of mails marked as draft in the specified mailbox or
mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
type will return -1.
Text to show if any of the above are not true.
Ends an $if block.
Current entropy available for crypto freaks.
Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks.
Percentage of entropy available in comparison to the
poolsize.
Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks.
Evaluates given string according to the rules of conky.text
interpretation, i.e. parsing any contained text object specifications
into their output, any occuring '$$' into a single '$' and so on. The
output is then being parsed again.
Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky.
Warning: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
recommend coding wanted behaviour in C/C++ and posting a patch.
Same as exec, except if the first value returned is a value
between 0-100, it will use that number to draw a horizontal bar. The
height and width parameters are optional, and default to the
default_bar_height and default_bar_width config settings,
respectively.
Same as exec, except if the first value returned is a value
between 0-100, it will use that number to draw a round gauge (much
like a vehicle speedometer). The height and width parameters are
optional, and default to the default_gauge_height and
default_gauge_width config settings, respectively.
Draws a horizontally scrolling graph with values from 0-100
plotted on the vertical axis. All parameters following the command
are optional. Gradient colors can be specified as hexadecimal
values with no 0x or # prefix. Use the -t switch to enable a
temperature gradient, so that small values are "cold" with color 1
and large values are "hot" with color 2. Without the -t switch,
the colors produce a horizontal gradient spanning the width of the
graph. The scale parameter defines the maximum value of the graph.
Use the -l switch to enable a logarithmic scale, which helps to
see small values. The default size for graphs can be controlled
via the default_graph_height and default_graph_width config
settings.If you need to execute a command with spaces, you have a
couple options: 1) wrap your command in double-quotes, or 2) put
your command into a separate file, such as ~/bin/myscript.sh, and
use that as your execgraph command. Remember to make your script
executable!In the following example, we set up execgraph to display
seconds (0-59) on a graph that is 50px high and 200px wide, using
a temperature gradient with colors ranging from red for small
values (FF0000) to yellow for large values (FFFF00). We set the
scale to 60.${execgraph ~/seconds.sh 50,200 FF0000 FFFF00 60
-t}Same as exec, but with a specific interval in seconds. The
interval can't be less than the update_interval in your configuration.
See also $texeci.
Same as execbar, but with an interval.
Same as execgauge, but with an interval.
Same as execgraph, but with an interval.
Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky.
Warning: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd
recommend coding wanted behaviour in C/C++ and posting a patch. This
differs from $exec in that it parses the output of the command, so you
can insert things like ${color red}hi!${color} in your script and have
it correctly parsed by Conky. Caveats: Conky parses and evaluates the
output of $execp every time Conky loops, and then destroys all the
objects. If you try to use anything like $execi within an $execp
statement, it will functionally run at the same interval that the
$execp statement runs, as it is created and destroyed at every
interval.
Same as execp, but with an interval. Note that the output
from the $execpi command is still parsed and evaluated at every
interval.
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.
Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the
current line and everything following. You can use a $font with no
arguments to change back to the default font (much like with $color).
Change font to fontN configuration option, where N is a
digit between 0 and 9, inclusively.
Format time given in seconds. This var only works when the
times_in_seconds configuration setting is on. Format is a string that
should start and end with a "-char. The "-chars are not part of the
output, \w,\d,\h,\m,\s,\(,\) and \\ are replaced by
weeks,days,hours,minutes,seconds,(,) and \. If you leave out a unit,
it's value will be expressed in the highest unit lower than the one
left out. Text between ()-chars will not be visible if a replaced unit
in this text is 0. If seconds is a decimal number then you can see the
numbers behind the point by using \S followed by a number that
specifies the amount of digits behind the point that you want to see
(maximum 9). You can also place a 'x' behind \S so you have all digits
behind the point and no trailing zero's. (also maximum 9).
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.
Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1.
If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1.
If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
Returns CPU #n's clock speed from assembly in MHz. CPUs are
counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
Bar that shows how much space is used on a file system.
height is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
Bar that shows how much space is free on a file system.
height is the height in pixels. fs is any file on that file system.
Free space on a file system available for users.
Free percentage of space on a file system available for
users.
File system size.
File system type.
File system used space.
Percent of file system used space.
Number of GitHub notifications.
The next element will be printed at position 'x'.
Displays the default route's interface or "multiple"/"none"
accordingly.
Displays the default gateway's IP or "multiple"/"none"
accordingly.
Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as
reported by the hddtemp daemon. Use hddtemp_host and hddtemp_port to
specify a host and port for all hddtemp objects. If no dev parameter
is given, the first disk returned by the hddtemp daemon is used.
Displays first N lines of supplied text file. The file is
checked every 'next_check' update. If next_check is not supplied,
Conky defaults to 2. Max of 30 lines can be displayed, or until the
text buffer is filled.
Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels.
Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev can be:
1) Number. e.g '1' means hwmon1. 2) Module name. e.g. 'k10temp' means
the first hwmon device whose module name is 'k10temp. 3) Omitted. Then
the first hwmon device (hwmon0) will be used.
Parameter type is either
'in' or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' meaning
temperature. Parameter n is number of the sensor. See
/sys/class/hwmon/ on your local computer.
The optional arguments 'factor' and 'offset' allow precalculation of
the raw input, which is being modified as follows: 'input = input *
factor + offset'. Note that they have to be given as decimal values
(i.e. contain at least one decimal place).
Display interface names starting from 1, eg ${iface 1}.
I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be
omitted if you have only one I2C device. Parameter type is either 'in'
or 'vol' meaning voltage; 'fan' meaning fan; 'temp' meaning
temperature. Parameter n is number of the sensor. See
/sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on your local
computer. The optional arguments 'factor' and 'offset' allow
precalculation of the raw input, which is being modified as follows:
'input = input * factor + offset'. Note that they have to be given as
decimal values (i.e. contain at least one decimal place).
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays whether ac power is on, as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
human-readable). Beware that this is by default not enabled by i8k
itself.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the left fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute as
listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
reverse order.
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
reverse order.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the right fan's rate of rotation, in revolutions per minute
as listed in /proc/i8k. Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
reverse order.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the right fan status as listed in /proc/i8k (translated to
human-readable). Beware, some laptops i8k reports these fans in
reverse order.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k.
If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops,
displays the version formatting of /proc/i8k.
If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the
laptops's LCD (0-7).
If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed.
If running the IBM ACPI, displays the temperatures from the
IBM temperature sensors (N=0..7) Sensor 0 is on the CPU, 3 is on the
GPU.
If running the IBM ACPI, displays the status of your
ThinkLight™. Value is either 'on', 'off' or 'unknown'.
If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume,
controlled by the volume keys (0-14).
Shows title of event number 'number' in the ical (RFC 5545)
file 'file'. The events are first ordered by starting time, events
that started in the past are ignored. The events that are shown are
the VEVENTS, the title that is shown is the SUMMARY and the starting
time used for sorting is DTSTART.
Shows everything that's being told in #channel on IRCserver
'server'. TCP-port 6667 is used for the connection unless 'port' is
specified. Shows everything since the last time or the last
'max_msg_lines' entries if specified.
Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv.
Needs to be stopped with iconv_stop.
Stop iconv codeset conversion.
if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between
$if_empty and the matching $endif.
if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and
the matching $endif. The optional second parameter checks for FILE
containing the specified string and prints everything between
$if_existing and the matching $endif.
if there is at least one default gateway, display everything
between $if_gw and the matching $endif.
Evaluates the given boolean expression, printing everything
between $if_match and the matching $endif depending on whether the
evaluation returns true or not. Valid expressions consist of a left
side, an operator and a right side. Left and right sides are being
parsed for contained text objects before evaluation. Recognised left
and right side types are:
doubleArgument consists of only digits and a
single dot.longArgument consists of only digits.stringArgument is enclosed in quotation marks.
(")Valid operands are: '>', '<', '>=', '<=',
'==', '!='.
If mixer exists, display everything between $if_mixer_mute
and the matching $endif. If no mixer is specified, "Vol" is used.
if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between
$if_mounted and the matching $endif.
if mpd is playing or paused, display everything between
$if_mpd_playing and the matching $endif.
If Pulseaudio's default sink is muted, display everything
between $if_pa_sink_muted and the corresponding $else or $endif.
If PROCESS is running, display everything between
$if_running and the corresponding $else or $endif. Note that PROCESS
may be either a full command line with arguments (without the
directory prefix), or simply the name of an executable. For example,
either of the following will be true if there is a running process
with the command line
/usr/bin/conky -u 5:
${if_running conky -u 5}or
${if_running conky}It is important not to include trailing spaces. For
example,
${if_running conky }will be false.
when using smapi, if the battery with index INDEX is
installed, display everything between $if_smapi_bat_installed and the
matching $endif.
if INTERFACE exists and is up, display everything between
$if_up and the matching $endif.
If it's the UPDATENR-th time that conky updates, display
everything 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.
Display everything between $if_xmms2_connected and the
matching $endif if xmms2 is running.
Renders an image from the path specified using Imlib2. Takes
4 optional arguments: a position, a size, a no-cache switch, and a
cache flush interval. Changing the x,y position will move the position
of the image, and changing the WxH will scale the image. If you
specify the no-cache flag (-n), the image will not be cached.
Alternately, you can specify the -f int switch to specify a cache
flush interval for a particular image. Example: ${image
/home/brenden/cheeseburger.jpg -p 20,20 -s 200x200} will render
'cheeseburger.jpg' at (20,20) scaled to 200x200 pixels. Conky does not
make any attempt to adjust the position (or any other formatting) of
images, they are just rendered as per the arguments passed. The only
reason $image is part of the conky.text section, is to allow for
runtime modifications, through $execp $lua_parse, or some other
method.
Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by
default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes separately by passing
arguments to this object. 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.
Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP
inbox by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes separately by
passing arguments to this object. 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.
Prints the current ioscheduler used for the given disk name
(i.e. e.g. "hda" or "sdb").
Displays last N lines of the systemd journal. The optional
type can be 'user' or 'system' which will show only the user or system
journal respectively. By default, all journal lines visible to the
user are shown. A maximum of 200 lines can be displayed, or until the
text buffer is filled.
Kernel version.
An indicator for Capital Lock key.
An indicator for Number Lock key.
An indicator for Scrolling Lock key.
Display keyboard layout.
Git version number. DragonFly only.
The value of
/proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode.
Displays the number of lines in the given file.
System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5
minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes. Without argument, prints all three
values separated by whitespace.
Load1 average graph, similar to xload, with optional colours
in hex, minus the #. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers)
when you use the -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a temperature
gradient, which makes the gradient values change depending on the
amplitude of a particular graph value (try it and see).
Executes a Lua function with given parameters, then prints
the returned string. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. 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.
Executes a Lua function with given parameters and draws a
bar. Expects result value to be an integer between 0 and 100. See also
'lua_load' on how to load scripts. 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.
Executes a Lua function with given parameters and draws a
gauge. Expects result value to be an integer between 0 and 100. See
also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. 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.
Executes a Lua function with and draws a graph. Expects
result value to be any number, and by default will scale to show the
full range. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. Takes the
switch '-t' to use a temperature gradient, which makes the gradient
values change depending on the amplitude of a particular graph value
(try it and see). 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.
Executes a Lua function with given parameters as per $lua,
then parses and prints the result value as per the syntax for the
conky.text section. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. 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.
Machine, e.g. i686, x86_64.
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.
Print a summary of recent messages in an mbox format
mailbox. mbox parameter is the filename of the mailbox (can be
encapsulated using '"', ie. ${mboxscan -n 10 "/home/brenden/some box"}
Amount of memory in use.
Amount of memory in use, including that used by system
buffers and caches.
Bar that shows amount of memory in use.
Bar that shows amount of memory in use (including memory
used by system buffers and caches).
Memory usage graph including memory used by system buffers
and cache. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you
use the -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a temperature
gradient, which makes the gradient values change depending on the
amplitude of a particular graph value (try it and see).
Amount of "dirty" memory. Linux only.
Amount of free memory including the memory that is very
easily freed (buffers/cache).
Amount of free memory.
Gauge that shows amount of memory in use (see cpugauge).
Memory usage graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small
numbers) when you use the -l switch. Takes the switch '-t' to use a
temperature gradient, which makes the gradient values change depending
on the amplitude of a particular graph value (try it and see).
Total amount of memory.
Percentage of memory in use.
Prints the mixer value as reported by the OS. On Linux, this
variable uses the OSS emulation, so you need the proper kernel module
loaded. Default mixer is "Vol", but you can specify one of the
available OSS controls: "Vol", "Bass", "Trebl", "Synth", "Pcm",
"Spkr", "Line", "Mic", "CD", "Mix", "Pcm2 ", "Rec", "IGain", "OGain",
"Line1", "Line2", "Line3", "Digital1", "Digital2", "Digital3",
"PhoneIn", "PhoneOut", "Video", "Radio" and "Monitor".
Displays mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See
docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
Prints the left channel mixer value as reported by the OS.
See docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
Displays the left channel mixer value in a bar as reported
by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
Prints the right channel mixer value as reported by the OS.
See docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
Displays the right channel mixer value in a bar as reported
by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments.
Album of the current MOC song.
Artist of the current MOC song.
Bitrate in the current MOC song.
Current time of the current MOC song.
File name of the current MOC song.
Rate of the current MOC song.
The current song name being played in MOC.
Current state of MOC; playing, stopped etc.
Time left in the current MOC song.
Title of the current MOC song.
Total length of the current MOC song.
Number of the monitor on which conky is running or the
message "Not running in X" if this is the case.
Number of monitors or the message "Not running in X" if this
is the case.
Display mouse speed.
Album in current MPD song.
Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile.
Artist of the album of the current MPD song.
Bar of mpd's progress.
Bitrate of current song.
Date of current song.
Song's elapsed time.
Prints the file name of the current MPD song.
Song's length.
Prints the MPD name field.
Percent of song's progress.
Random status (On/Off).
Repeat status (On/Off).
Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or
file name, depending on whats available.
Playing, stopped, et cetera.
Title of current MPD song.
Prints the MPD track field.
MPD's volume.
Shows the first field of the first row of the result of the
query.
Print a nameserver from /etc/resolv.conf. Index starts at
and defaults to 0.
Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if
not. Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported.
Hostname.
Short hostname (same as 'hostname -s' shell command).
Shows text and parses the vars in it, but doesn't update
them. Use this for things that do not change while conky is running,
like $machine, $conky_version,... By not updating this you can save
some resources.
Nvidia graphics card information via the XNVCtrl library.
GPU_ID:Optional parameter to choose the GPU to be
used as 0,1,2,3,.. Default parameter is 0Possible arguments:(Temperatures are printed as
float, all other values as integer. Bracketed arguments are aliases)
gputemp(
temp)
gputempthreshold(
threshold)
ambienttemp(
ambient)
gpufreqcur(
gpufreq)
gpufreqmingpufreqmaxmemfreqcur(
memfreq)
memfreqminmemfreqmaxmtrfreqcur(
mtrfreq)
mtrfreqminmtrfreqmaxperflevelcur(
perflevel)
perflevelminperflevelmaxperfmodegpuutilmembwutilvideoutilpcieutilmemused(
mem)
memfree(
memavail)
memmax(
memtotal)
memutil(
memperc)
fanspeedfanlevelimagequalitymodelnamedriverversionSame as nvidia, except it draws its output in a horizontal
bar. The height and width parameters are optional, and default to the
default_bar_height and default_bar_width config settings,
respectively.
GPU_ID:Optional parameter to choose the GPU to be
used as 0,1,2,3,.. Default parameter is 0Note the following arguments are
incompatible:gputempthreshold(
threshold)gpufreqmingpufreqmaxmemfreqminmemfreqmaxmtrfreqminmtrfreqmaxperflevelminperflevelmaxperfmodememtotal(
memmax)fanspeedSame as nvidiabar, except a round gauge (much like a vehicle
speedometer). The height and width parameters are optional, and
default to the default_gauge_height and default_gauge_width config
settings, respectively.
GPU_ID:Optional parameter to choose the GPU to be
used as 0,1,2,3,.. Default parameter is 0For possible arguments see nvidia and
nvidiabar.Same as nvidiabar, except a horizontally scrolling graph
with values from 0-100 plotted on the vertical axis. The height and
width parameters are optional, and default to the default_graph_height
and default_graph_width config settings, respectively.
GPU_ID:NOT optional. This parameter allows to
choose the GPU to be used as 0,1,2,3,..For possible arguments see nvidia and nvidiabar. To learn more
about the -t -l and gradient color options, see
execgraph.Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset.
Change outline color.
Generate random passwords.
Pulseaudio's default sink volume percentage.
Pulseaudio's default sink volume bar.
Pulseaudio's default sink description.
Pulseaudio's default sink active port name.
Pulseaudio's default sink active port description.
Pulseaudio's default card name.
Pulseaudio's default card active profile.
If running on Apple powerbook/ibook, display information on
battery status. The item parameter specifies, what information to
display. Exactly one item must be specified. Valid items are:
statuspercenttimeDirectory used as rootdirectory by the process (this will be
"/" unless the process did a chroot syscall).
Command line this process was invoked with.
Current working directory of the process.
Contents of a environment-var of the process.
List of environment-vars that the process can see.
Path to executed command that started the process.
The nice value of the process.
List of files that the process has open.
The pid of the parent of the process.
The priority of the process (see 'priority' in "man 5
proc").
Total number of bytes read by the process.
State of the process.
One of the chars in "RSDZTW" representing the state of the
process where R is running, S is sleeping in an interruptible wait, D
is waiting in uninterruptible disk sleep, Z is zombie, T is traced or
stopped (on a signal), and W is paging.
Filedescriptor binded to the STDERR of the process.
Filedescriptor binded to the STDIN of the process.
Filedescriptor binded to the STDOUT of the process.
Number of threads in process containing this thread.
List with pid's from threads from this process.
Amount of time that the process has been scheduled in kernel
mode in seconds.
Amount of time that the process has been scheduled in user
mode in seconds.
Sum of $pid_time_kernelmode and $pid_time_usermode.
The real uid of the process.
The effective uid of the process.
The saved set uid of the process.
The file system uid of the process.
The real gid of the process.
The effective gid of the process.
The saved set gid of the process.
The file system gid of the process.
Peak virtual memory size of the process.
Virtual memory size of the process.
Locked memory size of the process.
Peak resident set size ("high water mark") of the process.
Resident set size of the process.
Data segment size of the process.
Stack segment size of the process.
Text segment size of the process.
Shared library code size of the process.
Page table entries size of the process.
Total number of bytes written by the process.
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. The optional arguments 'factor' and 'offset' allow
precalculation of the raw input, which is being modified as follows:
'input = input * factor + offset'. Note that they have to be given as
decimal values (i.e. contain at least one decimal place).
Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3
inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes separately by
passing arguments to this object. 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.
Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your
global POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes
separately by passing arguments to this object. 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.
Total processes (sleeping and running).
Connects to a tcp port on a host (default is localhost),
reads every char available at the moment and shows them.
Connects to a udp port on a host (default is localhost),
reads every char available at the moment and shows them.
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.
Download and parse RSS feeds. The interval may be a
(floating point) value greater than 0. Action may be one of the
following: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num
par) and item_titles (when using this action and spaces_in_front is
given conky places that many spaces in front of each item). This
object is threaded, and once a thread is created it can't be
explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for each URI specified. You
can use any protocol that Curl supports.
Running processes (not sleeping). Requires Linux 2.6.
Number of running (runnable) threads. Linux only.
Scroll 'text' by 'step' characters to the left or right (set
'direction' to 'left' or 'right' or 'wait') showing 'length' number of
characters at the same time. The text may also contain variables.
'step' is optional and defaults to 1 if not set. 'direction' is
optional and defaults to left if not set. When direction is 'wait'
then text will scroll left and wait for 'interval' itertations at the
beginning and end of the text. If a var creates output on multiple
lines then the lines are placed behind each other separated with a
'|'-sign. If you change the textcolor inside $scroll it will
automatically have it's old value back at the end of $scroll. The end
and the start of text will be separated by 'length' number of spaces
unless direction is 'wait'.
Number of mails marked as seen in the specified mailbox or
mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are supported, mbox
type will return -1.
Prints info regarding System Integrity Protection (SIP) on
macOS. If no switch is provided, prints SIP status (enabled /
disabled), else, status of the specific SIP feature corresponding to
the switch provided. Below are shown the available switches:
SWITCH--------------------------RESULT--------------------------STATUS
0 apple internal YES/NO 1 forbid untrusted kexts YES/NO 2 forbid
task-for-pid YES/NO 3 restrict filesystem YES/NO 4 forbid
kernel-debugger YES/NO 5 restrict dtrace YES/NO 6 restrict nvram
YES/NO 7 forbid device-configuration YES/NO 8 forbid any-recovery-os
YES/NO 9 forbid user-approved-kexts YES/NO a uses unsupported
configuration? (*) (*): If yes, prints "unsupported configuration,
beware!" Else, prints "configuration is ok".
----------------------------------------------------------------------
USAGE: conky -t '${sip_status}' # print SIP status conky -t
'${sip_status 0}' # print allows apple-internal? Yes or No? NOTES: *
Available for all macOS versions (even the ones prior El Capitan where
SIP was first introduced) * If run on versions prior El Capitan SIP is
unavailable, so all you will get is "unsupported".
Change shading color.
when using smapi, display contents of the
/sys/devices/platform/smapi directory. ARGS
are either '(FILENAME)' or 'bat (INDEX) (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.
when using smapi, display the remaining capacity of the
battery with index INDEX as a bar.
when using smapi, display the remaining capacity in percent
of the battery with index INDEX. This is a separate variable because
it supports the 'use_spacer' configuration option.
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 (negative) state.
when using smapi, display the current temperature of the
battery with index INDEX in degree Celsius. This is a separate
variable because the original read out value is being converted from
milli degree Celsius.
Displays the Sony VAIO fanspeed information if sony-laptop
kernel support is enabled. Linux only.
All words capitalized regardless.
Stippled (dashed) horizontal line.
Displays the data of a stock symbol. The following data is
supported: adv(Average Daily Volume), ask, asksize, bid, askrt(ask
realtime), bidrt(bid realtime), bookvalue, bidsize, change,
commission, changert(change realtime), ahcrt(After Hours Change
realtime), ds(dividend/share), ltd(Last Trade Date), tradedate,
es(earnings/share), ei(error indication), epsecy(EPS Estimate Current
Year), epseny(EPS Estimate Next Year), epsenq(EPS Estimate Next
Quarter), floatshares, dayslow, dayshigh, 52weeklow, 52weekhigh,
hgp(Holdings Gain Percent), ag(Annualized Gain), hg(Holdings Gain),
hgprt(Holdings Gain Percent realtime), hgrt(Holdings Gain realtime),
moreinfo, obrt(Order Book realtime), mc(Market Capitalization),
mcrt(Market Cap realtime), ebitda, c52wlow(Change From 52-week Low),
pc52wlow(Percent Change From 52-week Low), cprt(change percent
realtime), lts(Last Trade Size), c52whigh(Change from 52-week high),
pc52whigh(percent change from 52-week high), ltp(last trade price),
hl(high limit), ll(low limit), dr(day's range), drrt(day's range
realtime), 50ma(50-day Moving Average), 200ma(200-day Moving Average),
c200ma(Change From 200-day Moving Average), pc200ma(Percent Change
From 200-day Moving Average), c50ma(Change From 50-day Moving
Average), pc50ma(Percent Change From 50-day Moving Average), name,
notes, open, pc(previous close), pricepaid, cip(change in percent),
ps(price/sales), pb(price/book), edv(Ex-Dividend Date), per(P/E
Ratio), dpd(Dividend Pay Date), perrt(P/E Ratio realtime), pegr(PEG
Ratio), pepsecy(Price/EPS Estimate Current Year), pepseny(Price/EPS
Estimate Next Year), symbol, sharesowned, shortratio, ltt(Last Trade
Time), tradelinks, tt(Ticker Trend), 1ytp(1 yr Target Price), volume,
hv(Holdings Value), hvrt(Holdings Value realtime), 52weekrange,
dvc(Day's Value Change), dvcrt(Day's Value Change realtime), se(Stock
Exchange), dy(Dividend Yield).
Amount of swap in use.
Bar that shows amount of swap in use.
Amount of free swap.
Total amount of swap.
Percentage of swap in use.
System name, e.g. Linux.
Print sysctl value by name. FreeBSD only.
Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column
'start'. The unit is pixels for both arguments.
Displays last N lines of supplied text file. The file is
checked every 'next_check' update. If next_check is not supplied,
Conky defaults to 2. Max of 30 lines can be displayed, or until the
text buffer is filled.
Displays the number of microseconds it takes to get a reply
on a ping to to tcp 'port' on 'host'. 'port' is optional and has 80 as
default. This works on both open and closed ports, just make sure that
the port is not behind a firewall or you will get 'down' as answer.
It's best to test a closed port instead of an open port, you will get
a quicker response.
TCP port (both IPv6 and IPv4) monitor for specified local
ports. Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items
are:countriprhostrportrserviceliplhostlportlserviceThe connection index provides you with access to each
connection in the port monitor. The monitor will return
information for index values from 0 to n-1 connections. Values
higher than n-1 are simply ignored. For the "count" item, the
connection index must be omitted. It is required for all other
items.Examples:${tcp_portmon 6881 6999 count}${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0}${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14}Note that port monitor variables which share the same port
range actually refer to the same monitor, so many references to a
single port range for different items and different indexes all
use the same monitor internally. In other words, the program
avoids creating redundant monitors.Evaluate the content of the templateN configuration variable
(where N is a value between 0 and 9, inclusively), applying
substitutions as described in the documentation of the
corresponding configuration variable. The number of arguments is
optional, but must match the highest referred index in the
template. You can use the same special sequences in each argument
as the ones valid for a template definition, e.g. to allow an
argument to contain a whitespace. Also simple nesting of templates
is possible this way.Here are some examples of template definitions, note they
are placed between [[ ... ]] instead of ' ... ':template0 = [[$\1\2]]template1 = [[\1: ${fs_used \2} / ${fs_size
\2}]]template2 = [[\1 \2]]The following list shows sample usage of the templates
defined above, with the equivalent syntax when not using any
template at all:
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 updating. You should
make the interval slightly longer than 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 interval at least 6 seconds. See also
$execi. This object will clean up the thread when it is destroyed, so
it can safely be used in a nested fashion, though it may not produce
the desired behaviour if used this way.
Same as execpi, except the command is run inside a thread.
Total threads.
Local time, see "man strftime" to get more information about
format.
If 'size' is a number followed by a size-unit
(kilobyte,mb,GiB,...) then it converts the size to bytes and shows it
without unit, otherwise it just shows 'size'.
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", "mem", "mem_res", "mem_vsize", "time", "uid", "user",
"io_perc", "io_read" and "io_write". There can be a max of 10
processes listed.
Same as top, except sorted by the amount of I/O the process
has done during the update interval.
Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu.
Same as top, except sorted by total CPU time instead of
current CPU usage.
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
already done that before conky has started.
Total upload, this one too, may overflow.
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.
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.
Name of group with this gid.
Username of user with this uid.
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.
Number of mails not marked as forwarded in the specified
mailbox or mail spool if not. Only maildir type mailboxes are
supported, mbox type will return -1.
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.
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.
for debugging.
Upload speed in suitable IEC units.
Upload speed in KiB with one decimal.
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 the -l switch.
Takes the switch '-t' to use a temperature gradient, which makes the
gradient values change depending on the amplitude of a particular
graph value (try it and see).
Uptime.
Uptime in a shorter format.
Lists the names of the users logged in.
Number of users logged in.
Lists the consoles in use.
Lists how long users have been logged in for.
Lists how long the user for the given console has been
logged in for.
Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time).
IPv6 addresses for an interface, followed by netmask if -n
is specified and scope with -s. Scopes are Global(G), Host-local(H),
Link-local(L), Site-local(S), Compat(C) and Unspecified(/). Linux
only.
Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will
cause text to overlap. See also $offset.
Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If
omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If
omitted, the parameter defaults to 1.
Download, parse and display METAR data.'URI' must be a valid METAR URI.
http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/'locID' must be a valid location identifier for the required
uri. For the NOAA site this must be a valid ICAO (see for instance
https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/qryhtml/icao/).
For the weather.com site this must be a valid location ID (see for
instance
http://aspnetresources.com/tools/locid.aspx).'data_type' must be one of the following:last_updateThe date and time stamp of the data. The result
depends on the URI used. For the NOAA site it is date
(yyyy/mm/dd) and UTC time. For the weather.com one it is
date ([m]m/[d]d/yy) and Local Time of the station.temperatureAir temperature (you can use the 'temperature_unit'
config setting to change units)cloud_coverThe highest cloud cover statuspressureAir pressure in millibarwind_speedWind speed in km/hwind_dirWind directionwind_dir_DEGCompass wind directionhumidityRelative humidity in %weatherAny relevant weather event (rain, snow, etc.). This
is not used if you are querying the weather.com site since
this data is aggregated into the cloud_cover oneiconWeather icon (only for www.weather.com). Can be used
together with the icon kit provided upon registering to
their service.'delay_in_minutes' (optional, default 30) cannot be less
than 30 minutes.This object is threaded, and once a thread is created it
can't be explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for each URI
specified.Note that these variables are still EXPERIMENTAL and can be
subject to many future changes.Download, parse and display weather forecast data for a
given day (daytime only).'locID', see 'weather' above.'day' is a number from 0 (today) to 4 (3 days after
tomorrow).'data_type' must be one of the following:daydatelowhiiconforecastwind_speedwind_dirwind_dir_DEGhumidityprecipitation'delay_in_minutes' (optional, default 210) cannot be lower
than 210 min.This object is threaded, and once a thread is created it
can't be explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for each URI
specified. You can use any protocol that Curl supports.Note that these variables are still EXPERIMENTAL and can be
subject to many future changes.Wireless access point MAC address. Linux only.
Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s). Linux only.
WLAN channel on which device 'net' is listening.
Wireless access point ESSID. Linux only.
Frequency on which device 'net' is listening.
Wireless link quality bar. Linux only.
Wireless link quality. Linux only.
Wireless link quality maximum value. Linux only.
Wireless link quality in percents. Linux only.
Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master). Linux only.
Displays the number of words in the given file.
Album in current XMMS2 song.
Artist in current XMMS2 song.
Bar of XMMS2's progress.
Bitrate of current song.
Comment in current XMMS2 song.
Returns song's date.
Duration of current song.
Song's elapsed time.
Genre in current XMMS2 song.
XMMS2 id of current song.
Percent of song's progress.
Returns the XMMS2 playlist.
Size of current song.
Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or
file name, depending on whats available.
XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected).
Number of times a song was played (presumably).
Title in current XMMS2 song.
Track number in current XMMS2 song.
Full path to current song.