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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"
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[
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<!ENTITY command_options SYSTEM "command_options.xml">
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<!ENTITY config_settings SYSTEM "config_settings.xml">
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<!ENTITY variables SYSTEM "variables.xml">
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<!ENTITY lua SYSTEM "lua.xml">
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]>
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<refentry>
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<refentryinfo>
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<address>
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<email>brenden1@users.sourceforge.net</email>
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</address>
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<author>
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<firstname>Brenden</firstname>
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<surname>Matthews</surname>
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</author>
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<date>2009-07-31</date>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>conky</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>conky</refname>
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<refpurpose>A system monitor for X originally based on the
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torsmo code, but more kickass. It just keeps on given'er.
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Yeah.</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<cmdsynopsis>
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<command>conky</command>
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<arg>
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<replaceable>options</replaceable>
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</arg>
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</cmdsynopsis>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on
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torsmo. Since its inception, Conky has changed
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significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining
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simplicity and configurability. Conky can display just
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about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own
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window. Not only does Conky have many built-in objects, it
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can also display just about any piece of information by
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using scripts and other external programs.
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</para>
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<para>Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including
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support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU
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usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process stats, and
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network monitoring, just to name a few), built in IMAP and
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POP3 support, built in support for many popular music
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players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious), and much much more.
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Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple
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progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and
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colours.
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</para>
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<para>We are always looking for help, whether its reporting
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bugs, writing patches, or writing docs. Please use the
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facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature
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requests, and submit patches, or stop by #conky on
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irc.freenode.net if you have questions or want to
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contribute.</para>
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<para>Thanks for your interest in Conky.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Compiling</title>
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<para>For users compiling from source on a binary distro,
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make sure you have the X development libraries installed
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(Unless you provide configure with "--disable-x11"). This
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should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or
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"xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev" format for
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the other libs required (depending on your configure
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options). You should be able to see which extra packages
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you need to install by reading errors that you get from
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'./configure'. You can enable/disable stuff by giving
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options to configure, but be careful with disabling. For
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example: with --disable-math you won't get errors but
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logarithmic graphs will be normal graphs and gauges
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will miss their line.
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</para>
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<para>Conky has (for some time) been available in the
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repositories of most popular distributions. Here are some
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installation instructions for a few:
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</para>
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<para>Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage...
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simply use "emerge app-admin/conky" for
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installation.
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</para>
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<para>Debian, etc. users -- Conky should be in your
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repositories, and can be installed by doing "aptitude
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install conky".
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</para>
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<para>Example to compile and run Conky with all optional
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components (note that some configure options may differ for
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your system):
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command>
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<option>sh autogen.sh</option>
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</command>
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<option># Only required if building from the
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git repo</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command>
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<option>./configure</option>
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</command>
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<option>--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
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--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
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--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
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--disable-own-window
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--enable-audacious[=yes|no|legacy]
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--enable-bmpx --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd
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--enable-xmms2 --disable-portmon
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--disable-network --enable-debug --disable-x11
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--disable-double-buffer --disable-xdamage
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--disable-xft</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command>
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<option>make</option>
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</command>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command>
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<option>make install</option>
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</command>
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<option># Optional</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command>
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<option>src/conky</option>
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</command>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>Conky has been tested to be compatible with C99 C,
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however it has not been tested with anything other than
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gcc, and is not guaranteed to work with other
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compilers.
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</para>
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<para></para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>You Should Know</title>
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<para>Conky is generally very good on resources. That said,
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the more you try to make Conky do, the more resources it is
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going to consume.
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</para>
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<para>An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc:
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"killall -SIGUSR1 conky". Saves you the trouble of having
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to kill and then restart. You can now also do the same with
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SIGHUP.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<para>Command line options override configurations defined in
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configuration file.
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</para>
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&command_options;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Configuration Settings</title>
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<para>Default configuration file location is $HOME/.conkyrc or
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${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf. On most systems, sysconfdir is
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/etc, and you can find the sample config file there
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(/etc/conky/conky.conf).
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</para>
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<para>You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then
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start modifying it. Other configs can be found at
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http://conky.sf.net/
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</para>
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&config_settings;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Objects/Variables</title>
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<para>Colours are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a
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list of them: /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt.
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Colour can be also in
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#rrggbb format (hex).
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</para>
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<para>
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Some objects may create threads, and sometimes these threads will
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not be destroyed until Conky terminates. There is no way to
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destroy or clean up threads while Conky is running. For example,
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if you use an MPD variable, the MPD thread will keep running until
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Conky dies. Some threaded objects will use one of the parameters
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as a 'key', so that you only have 1 relevant thread running (for
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example, the $curl, $rss and $weather objects launch one thread per
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URI).
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</para>
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&variables;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Lua API</title>
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<para>Conky features a Lua Programming API, and also ships with
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some Lua bindings for some useful libraries. Conky defines
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certain global functions and variables which can be accessed
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from Lua code running in Conky.
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</para>
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<para>To use Lua Conky, you first need to make sure you have a version of Conky
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with Lua support enabled (``conky -v'' will report this). Scripts
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must first be loaded using the lua_load configuration option. You
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then call functions in Lua via Conky's $lua, $lua_read, and Lua
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hooks.
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</para>
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<para>
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Be careful when creating threaded objects through the Lua API. You
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could wind up with a whole bunch of threads running if a thread is
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created with each iteration.
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</para>
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<para>
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At this time, the Lua API should not be considered stable and may
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change drastically from one release to another as it matures.
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</para>
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&lua;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<varname>conky</varname>
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<option>-t '${time %D %H:%M}' -o -u 30</option>
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</term>
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<listitem>Start Conky in its own window with date
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and clock as text and 30 sec update
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interval.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<varname>conky</varname>
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<option>-a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d</option>
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</term>
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<listitem>Start Conky to background at coordinates
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(5, 500).</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<varname>conky</varname>
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<option>-C > ~/.conkyrc</option>
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</term>
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<listitem>Do not start Conky, but have it output
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the builtin default config file to ~/.conkyrc for
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later customising.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Files</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<filename>
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${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf</filename>
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</term>
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<listitem>Default system-wide configuration file.
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The value of ${sysconfdir} depends on the
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compile-time options (most likely /etc).</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<filename>~/.conkyrc</filename>
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</term>
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<listitem>Default personal configuration
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file.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Bugs</title>
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<para>Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly
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doesn't work with all window managers. Especially doesn't
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work well with Gnome and it has been reported that it
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doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be disabled from
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drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
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show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w
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switch in Conky to set some specific window id. You might
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find xwininfo -tree useful to find the window to draw to.
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You can also use -o argument which makes Conky to create
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its own window. If you do try running Conky in its own
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window, be sure to read up on the own_window_type settings
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and experiment.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">
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http://conky.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky">
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http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://wiki.conky.be">
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http://wiki.conky.be</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>#conky on irc.freenode.net</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Copying</title>
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<para>Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Brenden Matthews, Philip
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Kovacs, et. al. Any original torsmo code is licensed under
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the BSD license (see LICENSE.BSD for a copy). All code
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written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
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(see LICENSE.GPL for a copy), except where noted
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differently (such as in portmon code, timed thread code,
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and audacious code which are LGPL, and prss which is an
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MIT-style license).</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Authors</title>
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<para>The Conky dev team (see AUTHORS for a full list of
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contributors).</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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