addr (interface) IP address for an interface acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state. acpifan ACPI fan state acpitemp ACPI temperature. adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x alignr (num) Right-justify text, with space of N alignc (num) Align text to centre battery (num) Remaining capacity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). buffers Amount of memory buffered cached Amount of memory cached color (color) Change drawing color to color cpu CPU usage in percents cpubar (height),(width) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels cpugraph (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. downspeed net Download speed in kilobytes downspeedf net Download speed in kilobytes with one decimal downspeedgraph net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. else Text to show if any of the above are not true exec shell command 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 and posting a patch. execbar shell command Same as exec, except if the first value return is a value between 0-100, it will use that number for a bar. The size for the bar is currently fixed, but that may change in the future. execgraph shell command Same as execbar, but graphs values execi interval, shell command Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. font font Specify a different font. Only applies to one line. freq Returns CPU frequency in MHz freq_g Returns CPU frequency in GHz fs_bar (height),(width) fs 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. fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available for users. fs_free_perc (fs) Free percentage of space on a file system available for users. fs_size (fs) File system size fs_used (fs) File system used space hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels 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 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. if_running (process) if PROCESS is running, display everything if_running and the matching $endif if_existing (file) if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif if_mounted (mountpoint) if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between if_mounted and the matching $endif kernel Kernel version linkstatus (interface) Get the link status for wireless connections loadavg (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes. machine Machine, i686 for example mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use program like fetchmail to get mails from some server using your favourite protocol. See also new_mails. mem Amount of memory in use membar (height),(width) Bar that shows amount of memory in use memmax Total amount of memory memperc Percentage of memory in use metar_ob_time self-explanatory metar_temp self-explanatory metar_tempf temp in F metar_windchill self-explanatory metar_dew_poin self-explanatory metar_rh self-explanatory metar_windspeed Windspeed in knots metar_windspeed_km Windspeed in kph metar_windspeed_mph Windspeed in mph metar_winddir self-explanatory metar_swinddir self-explanatory metar_cloud self-explanatory metar_u2d_time self-explanatory ml_upload_counter total session upload in mb ml_download_counter total session download in mb ml_nshared_files number of shared files ml_shared_counter total session shared in mb, buggy in some mldonkey versions ml_tcp_upload_rate tcp upload rate in kb/s ml_tcp_download_rate tcp download rate in kb/s ml_udp_upload_rate udp upload rate in kb/s ml_udp_download_rate udp download rate in kb/s ml_ndownloaded_files number of completed files ml_ndownloading_files number of downloading files mpd_artist Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile mpd_album Album in current MPD song mpd_bar (height),(width) Bar of mpd's progress mpd_bitrate Bitrate of current song mpd_status Playing, stopped, et cetera. mpd_title Title of current MPD song mpd_vol MPD's volume mpd_elapsed Song's elapsed time mpd_length Song's length mpd_percent Percent of song's progress new_mails Unread mail count in mail spool. nodename Hostname outlinecolor (color) Change outline color pre_exec shell command Executes a shell command one time before conky displays anything and puts output as text. processes Total processes (sleeping and running) running_processes Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6 shadecolor (color) Change shading color stippled_hr (space) Stippled (dashed) horizontal line swapbar (height),(width) Bar that shows amount of swap in use swap Amount of swap in use swapmax Total amount of swap swapperc Percentage of swap in use sysname System name, Linux for example offset (pixels) Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset. tail logfile, lines interval> Displays last N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines. Max of 30 lines can be displayed. time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format totaldown net 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. 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 listed. top_mem type, num Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu totalup net Total upload, this one too, may overflow updates Number of updates for debugging upspeed net Upload speed in kilobytes upspeedf net Upload speed in kilobytes with one decimal upspeedgraph net, (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) Upload speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #. uptime Uptime uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format seti_prog Seti@home current progress seti_progbar (height),(width) Seti@home current progress bar seti_credit Seti@home total user credit voffset (pixels) Change verticle offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset.