acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state. acpifan ACPI fan state acpitemp ACPI temperature in C. addr (interface) IP address for an interface, or "No Address" if no address is assigned. addrs (interface) IP addresses for an interface (if one - works like addr). Linux only. adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x alignc (num) Align text to centre alignr (num) Right-justify text, with space of N apcupsd host port Sets up the connection to apcupsd daemon. Prints nothing, defaults to localhost:3551 apcupsd_cable Prints the UPS connection type. apcupsd_charge Current battery capacity in percent. apcupsd_lastxfer Reason for last transfer from line to battery. apcupsd_linev Nominal input voltage. apcupsd_load Current load in percent. apcupsd_loadbar Bar showing current load. apcupsd_loadgauge (height),(width) Gauge that shows current load. apcupsd_loadgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) History graph of current load. apcupsd_model Prints the model of the UPS. apcupsd_name Prints the UPS user-defined name. apcupsd_status Prints current status (on-line, on-battery). apcupsd_temp Current internal temperature. apcupsd_timeleft Time left to run on battery. apcupsd_upsmode Prints the UPS mode (e.g. standalone). apm_adapter Display APM AC adapter status (FreeBSD only) apm_battery_life Display APM battery life in percent (FreeBSD only) apm_battery_time Display remaining APM battery life in hh:mm:ss or "unknown" if AC adapterstatus is on-line or charging (FreeBSD only) audacious_bar (height),(width) Progress bar audacious_bitrate Bitrate of current tune audacious_channels Number of audio channels of current tune audacious_filename Full path and filename of current tune audacious_frequency Sampling frequency of current tune audacious_length Total length of current tune as MM:SS audacious_length_seconds Total length of current tune in seconds audacious_main_volume The current volume fetched from Audacious audacious_playlist_length Number of tunes in playlist audacious_playlist_position Playlist position of current tune audacious_position Position of current tune (MM:SS) audacious_position_seconds Position of current tune in seconds audacious_status Player status (Playing/Paused/Stopped/Not running) audacious_title (max length) Title of current tune with optional maximum length specifier battery (num) Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). battery_bar (height),(width) (num) Battery percentage remaining of ACPI battery in a bar. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). battery_percent (num) Battery percentage remaining for ACPI battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). battery_short (num) 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_time (num) Battery charge/discharge time remaining of ACPI battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0). bmpx_album Album in current BMPx track bmpx_artist Artist in current BMPx track bmpx_bitrate Bitrate of the current BMPx track bmpx_title Title of the current BMPx track bmpx_track Track number of the current BMPx track bmpx_uri URI of the current BMPx track buffers Amount of memory buffered cached Amount of memory cached color (color) Change drawing color to color colorN Change drawing color to colorN configuration option, where N is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively. combine var1 var2 Places the lines of var2 to the right of the lines of var1 seperated 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. conky_build_arch CPU architecture Conky was built for conky_build_date Date Conky was built conky_version Conky version cpu (cpuN) 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. cpubar (cpuN) (height),(width) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is bar's height in pixels. See $cpu for more info on SMP. cpugauge (cpuN) (height),(width) Elliptical gauge that shows CPU usage, height and width are gauge's vertical and horizontal axis respectively. See $cpu for more info on SMP. cpugraph (cpuN) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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_protect device Disk protection status, if supported (needs kernel-patch). Prints either "frozen" or "free " (note the padding). diskio (device) Displays current disk IO. Device is optional, and takes the form of sda for /dev/sda. Individual partitions are allowed. diskio_read (device) Displays current disk IO for reads. Device as in diskio. diskio_write (device) Displays current disk IO for writes. Device as in diskio. diskiograph (device) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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). diskiograph_read (device) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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). diskiograph_write (device) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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). downspeed (net) Download speed in KiB downspeedf (net) Download speed in KiB with one decimal downspeedgraph (netdev) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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). draft_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. else Text to show if any of the above are not true endif Ends an $if block. entropy_avail Current entropy available for crypto freaks entropy_bar (height),(width) Normalized bar of available entropy for crypto freaks entropy_perc Percentage of entropy available in comparison to the poolsize entropy_poolsize Total size of system entropy pool for crypto freaks eval string Evalutates given string according to the rules of 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. eve api_userid api_key character_id Fetches your currently training skill from the Eve Online API servers (http://www.eve-online.com/) and displays the skill along with the remaining training time. exec 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 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 bars can be controlled via the default_bar_size config setting. execgauge command Same as exec, except if the first value returned is a value between 0-100, it will use that number for a gauge. The size for gauges can be controlled via the default_gauge_size config setting. execgraph ("normal"|"log") (-t) command Same as execbar, but graphs values. Uses a logaritmic scale when the log option is given (to see small numbers). Values still have to be between 0 and 100. The size for graphs can be controlled via the default_graph_size config setting. 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). execi interval command Same as exec but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. See also $texeci execibar interval command Same as execbar, except with an interval execigauge interval command Same as execgauge, but takes an interval arg and gauges values. execigraph interval ("normal"|"log") (-t) command Same as execgraph, but takes an interval arg and graphs values. execp 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. 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. execpi interval command Same as execp but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. Note that the output from the $execpi command is still parsed and evaluated at every interval. flagged_mails (maildir) (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. font (font) 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) forwarded_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. freq (n) Returns CPU #n's frequency in MHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. freq_g (n) Returns CPU #n's frequency in GHz. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. 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_bar_free (height),(width) fs 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. 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_type (fs) File system type. fs_used (fs) File system used space. fs_used_perc (fs) Percent of file system used space. goto x The next element will be printed at position 'x'. gw_iface Displays the default route's interface or "multiple"/"none" accordingly. gw_ip Displays the default gateway's IP or "multiple"/"none" accordingly. hddtemp dev, (host,(port)) Displays temperature of a selected hard disk drive as reported by the hddtemp daemon running on host:port. Default host is 127.0.0.1, default port is 7634. head logfile lines (interval) Displays first N lines of supplied text text file. If interval is not supplied, Conky assumes 2x Conky's interval. Max of 30 lines can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled. hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in pixels hwmon (dev) type n (factor offset) Hwmon sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). Parameter dev may be omitted if you have only one hwmon 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/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). i2c (dev) type n (factor offset) 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). i8k_ac_status 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. i8k_bios If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the bios version as listed in /proc/i8k. i8k_buttons_status If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the volume buttons status as listed in /proc/i8k. i8k_cpu_temp If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the cpu temperature in Celsius, as reported by /proc/i8k. i8k_left_fan_rpm 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. 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 reverse order. i8k_right_fan_rpm 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. i8k_right_fan_status 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. i8k_serial If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays your laptop serial number as listed in /proc/i8k. i8k_version If running the i8k kernel driver for Inspiron laptops, displays the version formatting of /proc/i8k. ibm_brightness If running the IBM ACPI, displays the brigtness of the laptops's LCD (0-7). ibm_fan If running the IBM ACPI, displays the fan speed. ibm_temps N 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. ibm_volume If running the IBM ACPI, displays the "master" volume, controlled by the volume keys (0-14). iconv_start codeset_from codeset_to Convert text from one codeset to another using GNU iconv. Needs to be stopped with iconv_stop. iconv_stop Stop iconv codeset conversion. if_empty (var) if conky variable VAR is empty, display everything between $if_empty and the matching $endif if_existing file (string) if FILE exists, display everything between if_existing and the matching $endif. The optional second paramater checks for FILE containing the specified string and prints everything between $if_existing and the matching $endif. if_gw if there is at least one default gateway, display everything between $if_gw and the matching $endif if_match expression 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: double: argument consists of only digits and a single dot. long: argument consists of only digits. string: argument is enclosed in quotation mark or the checks for double and long failed before. Valid operands are: '>', '<', '>=', '<=', '==', '!='. if_mixer_mute (mixer) If mixer exists, display everything between $if_mixer_mute and the matching $endif. If no mixer is specified, "Master" is used. if_mounted (mountpoint) if MOUNTPOINT is mounted, display everything between $if_mounted and the matching $endif if_mpd_playing if mpd is playing or paused, display everything between $if_mpd_playing and the matching $endif if_running (process) if PROCESS is running, display everything $if_running and the matching $endif. This uses the ``pidof'' command, so the -x switch is also supported. if_smapi_bat_installed (INDEX) when using smapi, if the battery with index INDEX is installed, display everything between $if_smapi_bat_installed and the matching $endif if_up (interface) if INTERFACE exists and is up, display everything between $if_up and the matching $endif if_updatenr (updatenr) 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. if_xmms2_connected Display everything between $if_xmms2_connected and the matching $endif if xmms2 is running. image <path to image> (-p x,y) (-s WxH) (-n) (-f interval) 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 flust 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 TEXT section, is to allow for runtime modifications, through $execp $lua_parse, $lua_read_parse, or some other method. imap_messages (args) Displays the number of messages in your global IMAP inbox by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately 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. imap_unseen (args) Displays the number of unseen messages in your global IMAP inbox by default. You can define individual IMAP inboxes seperately 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. ioscheduler disk Prints the current ioscheduler used for the given disk name (i.e. e.g. "hda" or "sdb") kernel Kernel version laptop_mode The value of /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode lines textfile Displays the number of lines in the given file loadavg (1,2,3)> System load average, 1 is for past 1 minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for past 15 minutes. loadgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) Load1 average graph, similar to xload, with optional colours in hex, minus the #. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 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). lua function_name (function parameters) Executes a Lua function with given parameters, then prints the returned string. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. lua_bar (height, width) function_name (function parameters) 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. lua_gauge (height, width) function_name (function parameters) 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. lua_graph function_name (function parameters) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) Executes a Lua function with given parameters 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). lua_parse function_name (function parameters) Executes a Lua function with given parameters as per $lua, then parses and prints the result value as per the syntax for Conky's TEXT section. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. lua_read_parse function_name (conky text) Executes a Lua function per $lua, except takes a 2nd argument which is first evaluated as per Conky's TEXT section and passed to the function first. The return value is then parsed and prints the result value as per the syntax for Conky's TEXT section. See also 'lua_load' on how to load scripts. machine Machine, i686 for example mails (mailbox) (interval) 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. mboxscan (-n number of messages to print) (-fw from width) (-sw subject width) mbox 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"} mem Amount of memory in use membar (height),(width) Bar that shows amount of memory in use memeasyfree Amount of free memory including the memory that is very easily freed (buffers/cache) memfree Amount of free memory memgauge (height),(width) Gauge that shows amount of memory in use (see cpugauge) memgraph ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) Memory usage graph. Uses a logarithmic scale (to see small numbers) when you use "log" instead of "normal". 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). memmax Total amount of memory memperc Percentage of memory in use mixer (device) Prints the mixer value as reported by the OS. Default mixer is "vol", but you can specify one of the following optional arguments: "vol", "bass", "treble", "synth", "pcm", "speaker", "line", "mic", "cd", "mix", "pcm2", "rec", "igain", "ogain", "line1", "line2", "line3", "dig1", "dig2", "dig3", "phin", "phout", "video", "radio", "monitor". Refer to the definition of SOUND_DEVICE_NAMES in <linux/soundcard.h> (on Linux), <soundcard.h> (on OpenBSD), or <sys/soundcard.h> to find the exact options available on your system. mixerbar (device) Displays mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. mixerl (device) Prints the left channel mixer value as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. mixerlbar (device) Displays the left channel mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. mixerr (device) Prints the right channel mixer value as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. mixerrbar (device) Displays the right channel mixer value in a bar as reported by the OS. See docs for $mixer for details on arguments. moc_album Album of the current MOC song moc_artist Artist of the current MOC song moc_bitrate Bitrate in the current MOC song moc_curtime Current time of the current MOC song moc_file File name of the current MOC song moc_rate Rate of the current MOC song moc_song The current song name being played in MOC. moc_state Current state of MOC; playing, stopped etc. moc_timeleft Time left in the current MOC song moc_title Title of the current MOC song moc_totaltime Total length of the current MOC song monitor Number of the monitor on which conky is running monitor_number Number of monitors mpd_album Album in current MPD song mpd_artist Artist in current MPD song must be enabled at compile mpd_bar (height),(width) Bar of mpd's progress mpd_bitrate Bitrate of current song mpd_elapsed Song's elapsed time mpd_file Prints the file name of the current MPD song mpd_length Song's length mpd_name Prints the MPD name field mpd_percent Percent of song's progress mpd_random Random status (On/Off) mpd_repeat Repeat status (On/Off) mpd_smart (max length) Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file name, depending on whats available mpd_status Playing, stopped, et cetera. mpd_title (max length) Title of current MPD song mpd_track Prints the MPD track field mpd_vol MPD's volume nameserver (index) Print a nameserver from /etc/resolv.conf. Index starts at and defaults to 0. new_mails (mailbox) (interval) Unread mail count in the specified mailbox or mail spool if not. Both mbox and maildir type mailboxes are supported. nodename Hostname nvidia threshold temp ambient gpufreq memfreq imagequality Nvidia graficcard support for the XNVCtrl library. Each option can be shortened to the least significant part. Temperatures are printed as float, all other values as integer. threshold: the thresholdtemperature at which the gpu slows down temp: gives the gpu current temperature ambient: gives current air temperature near GPU case gpufreq: gives the current gpu frequency memfreq: gives the current mem frequency imagequality: which imagequality should be choosen by OpenGL applications offset (pixels) Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset. outlinecolor (color) Change outline color pb_battery item 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: status: Display if battery is fully charged, charging, discharging or absent (running on AC) percent: Display charge of battery in percent, if charging or discharging. Nothing will be displayed, if battery is fully charged or absent. time: Display the time remaining until the battery will be fully charged or discharged at current rate. Nothing is displayed, if battery is absent or if it's present but fully charged and not discharging. platform (dev) type n (factor offset) 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). pop3_unseen (args) Displays the number of unseen messages in your global POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately 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. pop3_used (args) Displays the amount of space (in MiB, 2^20) used in your global POP3 inbox by default. You can define individual POP3 inboxes seperately 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. 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) read_tcp (host) port Connects to a tcp port on a host (default is localhost), reads every char available at the moment and shows them. replied_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. rss url delay_in_minutes action (num_par (spaces_in_front)) Download and parse RSS feeds. 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). running_processes Running processes (not sleeping), requires Linux 2.6 scroll length (step) text Scroll 'text' by 'step' characters 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. If a var creates output on multiple lines then the lines are placed behind each other separated with a '|'-sign. Do NOT use vars that change colors or otherwise affect the design inside a scrolling text. If you want spaces between the start and the end of 'text', place them at the end of 'text' not at the front ("foobar" and " foobar" can both generate "barfoo" but "foobar " will keep the spaces like this "bar foo"). seen_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. shadecolor (color) Change shading color smapi (ARGS) 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. smapi_bat_bar (INDEX),(height),(width) when using smapi, display the remaining capacity of the battery with index INDEX as a bar. smapi_bat_perc (INDEX) 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. smapi_bat_power INDEX 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. smapi_bat_temp INDEX 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. sony_fanspeed Displays the Sony VAIO fanspeed information if sony-laptop kernel support is enabled. Linux only. stippled_hr (space) Stippled (dashed) horizontal line swap Amount of swap in use swapbar (height),(width) Bar that shows amount of swap in use swapmax Total amount of swap swapperc Percentage of swap in use sysname System name, Linux for example tab (width, (start)) Puts a tab of the specified width, starting from column 'start'. The unit is pixels for both arguments. 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 can be displayed, or until the text buffer is filled. tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index) (ip4 only at present) TCP port monitor for specified local ports. Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535. Valid items are: count- total number of connections in the range rip- remote ip address rhost- remote host name rport- remote port number rservice- remote service name from /etc/services lip- local ip address lhost- local host name lport- local port number lservice- local service name from /etc/services The 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}- displays the number of connections in the bittorrent port range ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0}- displays the remote host ip of the first sshd connection ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 9}- displays the remote host ip of the tenth sshd connection ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rhost 0}- displays the remote host name of the first connection on a privileged port ${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 4}- displays the remote host port of the fifth connection on a privileged port ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14}- displays the local service name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports 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. templateN (arg1) (arg2) (arg3 ...) 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: 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: using template same without template ${template0 node name} $nodename ${template1 root /} root: ${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /} ${template1 ${template2\ disk\ root} /} disk root: ${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /} texeci interval command 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 then 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. time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format 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", "mem", "mem_res", "mem_vsize", "time", "io_perc", "io_read" and "io_write". There can be a max of 10 processes listed. top_mem type, num Same as top, except sorted by mem usage instead of cpu top_time type, num Same as top, except sorted by total CPU time instead of current CPU usage top_io type, num Same as top, except sorted by the amount of I/O the process has done during the update interval 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. totalup (net) Total upload, this one too, may overflow trashed_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. tztime (timezone) (format) 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. unflagged_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. unforwarded_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. unreplied_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. unseen_mails (maildir) (interval) 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. updates Number of updates for debugging upspeed (net) Upload speed in KiB upspeedf (net) Upload speed in KiB with one decimal upspeedgraph (netdev) ("normal"|"log") (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) 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 "log" instead of "normal". 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 uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format user_names Lists the names of the users logged in user_number Number of users logged in user_terms Lists the consoles in use user_times Lists how long users have been logged in for utime (format) Display time in UTC (universal coordinate time). voffset (pixels) Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset. voltage_mv (n) Returns CPU #n's voltage in mV. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. voltage_v (n) Returns CPU #n's voltage in V. CPUs are counted from 1. If omitted, the parameter defaults to 1. wireless_ap (net) Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only) wireless_bitrate (net) Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only) wireless_essid (net) Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only) wireless_link_bar (height),(width) (net) Wireless link quality bar (Linux only) wireless_link_qual (net) Wireless link quality (Linux only) wireless_link_qual_max (net) Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only) wireless_link_qual_perc (net) Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only) wireless_mode (net) Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only) words textfile Displays the number of words in the given file xmms2_album Album in current XMMS2 song xmms2_artist Artist in current XMMS2 song xmms2_bar (height),(width) Bar of XMMS2's progress xmms2_bitrate Bitrate of current song xmms2_comment Comment in current XMMS2 song xmms2_date Returns song's date. xmms2_duration Duration of current song xmms2_elapsed Song's elapsed time xmms2_genre Genre in current XMMS2 song xmms2_id XMMS2 id of current song xmms2_percent Percent of song's progress xmms2_playlist Returns the XMMS2 playlist. xmms2_size Size of current song xmms2_smart Prints the song name in either the form "artist - title" or file name, depending on whats available xmms2_status XMMS2 status (Playing, Paused, Stopped, or Disconnected) xmms2_timesplayed Number of times a song was played (presumably). xmms2_title Title in current XMMS2 song xmms2_tracknr Track number in current XMMS2 song xmms2_url Full path to current song