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6 inxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
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10 inxi
11 inxi [-AbBCdDEfFGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUVwyYzZ]
13 inxi [-c -NUMBER] [--sensors-exclude SENSORS] [--sensors-use SENSORS]
15 [-t [c|m|cm|mc][NUMBER]] [-v NUMBER] [-W LOCATION] [--weather-unit
16 {m|i|mi|im}] [-y WIDTH]
17 inxi [--edid] [--memory-modules] [--memory-short] [--recommends]
19 [--sensors-default] [--slots]
20 inxi [-x|-xx|-xxx|-a] -OPTION(s)
22 All short form options have long form variants - see below for these
24 and more advanced options.
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28 inxi is a command line system information script built for console and
29 IRC. It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to
30 quickly ascertain users' system configurations and hardware. inxi shows
31 system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, gcc version(s),
32 Processes, RAM usage, and a wide variety of other useful information.
33 inxi output varies depending on whether it is being used on CLI or IRC,
35 with some default filters and color options applied only for IRC use.
36 Script colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or changed using
37 the -c color options listed in the STANDARD OPTIONS section below.
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41 In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi used on IRC auto‐
42 matically filters out your network device MAC address, WAN and LAN IP,
43 your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other items.
44 Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger
46 this filtering with the -z option (-Fz, for example). To override the
47 IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful in debugging
48 network connection issues online in a private chat, for example.
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52 This man page is pretty long and information packed. It is divided into
53 the following sections:
54 * USING OPTIONS How to use the command line options.
56 * STANDARD OPTIONS Primary data types trigger items.
58 * FILTER OPTIONS Apply a variety of output filters.
60 * OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS Change default colors, widths, heights, output
62 types, etc.
63 * EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -x, -xx, and -xxx add to the output per pri‐
65 mary data type.
66 * ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -a adds to the output per primary data
68 type. These have a lot of information because this is advanced admin
69 data, which are not always intuitive or easy to understand.
70 * ADVANCED OPTIONS Modify behavior or choice of data sources, and other
72 advanced switches.
73 * DEBUGGING OPTIONS For development use mainly, or contributing
75 datasets to the project.
76 * DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES Only for advanced users,
78 sometimes something will hang the debuggers, this shows you various
79 ways to get around those failures.
80 * SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS List of known good IRC clients. Not checked of‐
82 ten, let us know if something is not working.
83 * RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT How to run inxi in various IRC clients.
85 * CONFIGURATION FILE Configuration file locations and priority in us‐
87 ing.
88 * CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Most of the commonly used configuration op‐
90 tions, along with sample values.
91 * BUGS How and where to report bugs.
93 * HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOL‐
95 LOWING These are self explanitory.
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99 Options can be combined if they do not conflict. You can either group
100 the letters together or separate them.
101 Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion, ex‐
103 cept when using -t. Note that if you use an option that requires an
104 additional argument, that must be last in the short form group of op‐
105 tions. Otherwise you can use those separately as well.
106 For example: inxi -AG | inxi -A -G | inxi -b | inxi -c10 | inxi
108 -FxxzJy90 | inxi -bay
109 Note that all the short form options have long form equivalents, which
111 are listed below. However, usually the short form is used in examples
112 in order to keep things simple.
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116 -A , --audio
117 Show Audio/sound device(s) information, including device driver.
118 Show running sound server(s). See -xxA to show all sound servers
119 detected.
120 -b , --basic
123 Show basic output, short form. Same as: inxi -v 2
124 -B , --battery
127 Show system battery (ID-x) data, charge, condition, plus extra
128 information (if battery present). Uses /sys or, for BSDs without
129 systctl battery data, use --dmidecode to force its use. dmide‐
130 code does not have very much information, and none about current
131 battery state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when
132 using /sys or sysctl data.
133 Note that for charge:, the output shows the current charge, as
135 well as its value as a percentage of the available capacity,
136 which can be less than the original design capacity. In the fol‐
137 lowing example, the actual current available capacity of the
138 battery is 22.2 Wh.
139 charge: 20.1 Wh (95.4%)
141 The condition: item shows the remaining available capacity /
143 original design capacity, and then this figure as a percentage
144 of original capacity available in the battery.
145 condition: 22.2/36.4 Wh (61%)
147 With -x, or if voltage difference is critical, volts: item shows
149 the current voltage, and the min: voltage. Note that if the cur‐
150 rent is below the minimum listed the battery is essentially dead
151 and will not charge. Test that to confirm, but that's techni‐
152 cally how it's supposed to work.
153 volts: 12.0 min: 11.4
155 With -x shows attached Device-x information (mouse, keyboard,
157 etc.) if they are battery powered.
158 --bluetooth
161 See -E.
162 -c , --color
165 See OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS.
166 -C , --cpu
169 Show full CPU output (if each item available): basic CPU topol‐
170 ogy, model, type, L2 cache, average speed of all cores (if > 1
171 core, otherwise speed of the core), min/max speeds for CPU, and
172 per CPU clock speed. More data available with -x, -xxx, and -a
173 options.
174 Explanation of CPU type (type: MT MCP) abbreviations:
176 * AMCP - Asymmetric Multi Core Processor. More than 1 core per
178 CPU, and more than one core type (single and multithreaded cores
179 in the same CPU).
180 * AMP - Asymmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU,
182 but not identical in terms of core counts or min/max speeds).
183 * MT - Multi/Hyper Threaded CPU (more than 1 thread per core,
185 previously HT).
186 * MST - Multi and Single Threaded CPU (a CPU with both Single
188 and Multi Threaded cores).
189 * MCM - Multi Chip Model (more than 1 die per CPU).
191 * MCP - Multi Core Processor (more than 1 core per CPU).
193 * SMP - Symmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU).
195 * UP - Uni (single core) Processor.
197 Note that min/max: speeds are not necessarily true in cases of
199 overclocked CPUs or CPUs in turbo/boost mode. See -Ca for alter‐
200 nate base/boost: speed data, more granular cache data, and more.
201 Sample:
203 CPU:
204 Info: 2x 8-core model: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP SMP
205 cache: L2: 2x 2 MiB (4 MiB)
206 Speed (MHz): avg: 1601 min/max: 1200/3000 cores: 1: 1280 2: 1595 3: 1416
207 ... 32: 1634
208 -d , --disk-full,--optical
211 Show optical drive data as well as -D hard drive data. With -x,
212 adds a feature line to the output. Also shows floppy disks if
213 present. Note that there is no current way to get any informa‐
214 tion about the floppy device that we are aware of, so it will
215 simply show the floppy ID without any extra data. -xx adds a few
216 more features.
217 -D , --disk
220 Show Hard Disk info. Shows total disk space and used percentage.
221 The disk used percentage includes space used by swap parti‐
222 tion(s), since those are not usable for data storage. Also, un‐
223 mounted partitions are not counted in disk use percentages since
224 inxi has no access to the used amount.
225 If the system has RAID or other logical storage, and if inxi can
227 determine the size of those vs their components, you will see
228 the storage total raw and usable sizes, plus the percent used of
229 the usable size. The no argument short form of inxi will show
230 only the usable (or total if no usable) and used percent. If
231 there is no logical storage detected, only total: and used: will
232 show. Sample (with RAID logical size calculated):
233 Local Storage: total: raw: 5.49 TiB usable: 2.80 TiB used: 1.35
235 TiB (48.3%)
236 Without logical storage detected:
238 Local Storage: total: 2.89 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (52.3%)
240 Also shows per disk information: Disk ID, type (if present),
242 vendor (if detected), model, and size. See Extra Data Options
243 (-x options) and Admin Extra Data Options (--admin options) for
244 many more features.
245 -E, --bluetooth
248 Show bluetooth device(s), drivers. Show Report: with HCI ID,
249 state, address per device (requires bt-adapter or hciconfig),
250 and if available (hciconfig only) bluetooth version (bt-v). See
251 Extra Data Options for more.
252 If bluetooth shows as status: down, shows bt-service: state and
254 rfkill software and hardware blocked states, and rfkill ID.
255 Note that Report-ID: indicates that the HCI item was not able to
257 be linked to a specific device, similar to IF-ID: in -n.
258 If your internal bluetooth device does not show, it's possible
260 that it has been disabled, if you try enabling it using for ex‐
261 ample:
262 hciconfig hci0 up
264 and it returns a blocked by RF-Kill error, you can do one of
266 these:
267 connmanctl enable bluetooth
269 or
271 rfkill list bluetooth
273 rfkill unblock bluetooth
275 --edid
278 Triggers full EDID data in Graphics, activates -G and -a.
279 - Adds monitor chromacity (chroma:
281 red:..green:...blue:...white:).
282 - Shows all available monitor modes if > 2 present, in comma
284 separated list.
285 - Shows EDID errors and warnings if any present.
287 --filter, -z
290 See FILTER OPTIONS.
291 -f , --flags
294 Show all CPU flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with
295 -F in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show features items.
296 -F , --full
299 Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters
300 (except -J and -W) plus --swap, -s and -n. Does not show extra
301 verbose options such as -d -f -i -J -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x un‐
302 less you use those arguments in the command, e.g.: inxi -Frmxx
303 --gpu Deprecated. See -G -a.
306 -G , --graphics
309 Show Graphic device(s) information, including details of device
310 and display drivers (X: loaded:, and, if applicable: unloaded:,
311 failed:, dri: (if X and different from loaded X drivers) driv‐
312 ers, and active gpu: drivers), display protocol (if available),
313 display server (and/or Wayland compositor), vendor and version
314 number, e.g.:
315 Display: x11 server: Xorg v: 1.15.1
317 or
319 Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.1 with: Xwayland v: 20.1
321 If protocol is not detected, shows:
323 Display: server: Xorg 1.15.1
325 Also shows screen resolution(s) (per monitor/X screen). Shows
327 graphics API used, like OpenGL. For X.org: OpenGL renderer,
328 OpenGL core profile version/OpenGL version; for VESA: data (for
329 Xvesa); for Wayland: GBM/EGL data (not implemented).
330 Compositor information will show if detected using -xx option or
332 always if detected and Wayland since the compositor is the
333 server with Wayland.
334 -Gxx shows monitor data as well, if detected. --edid shows ad‐
336 vanced monitor data (full modes, chroma, etc.).
337 -h , --help
340 The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal win‐
341 dow. Set script global COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a different
342 default value, or use -y <width> to temporarily override the de‐
343 faults or actual window width.
344 -i , --ip
347 Show WAN IP address and local interfaces (latter requires ifcon‐
348 fig or ip network tool), as well as network output from -n. Not
349 shown with -F for user security reasons. You shouldn't paste
350 your local/WAN IP. Shows both IPv4 and IPv6 link IP addresses.
351 -I , --info
354 Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, IRC client (or
355 shell type if run in shell, not IRC), inxi version. See -Ix,
356 -Ixx, and -Ia for extra information (init type/version, run‐
357 level/target, packages).
358 Note: if -m is used or triggered, the memory item will show in
360 the main Memory: report of -m, not in Info:.
361 Raspberry Pi only: uses vcgencmd get_mem gpu to get gpu RAM
363 amount, if user is in video group and vcgencmd is installed.
364 Uses this result to increase the Memory: amount and used:
365 amounts.
366 -j, --swap
369 Shows all active swap types (partition, file, zram). When this
370 option is used, swap partition(s) will not show on the -P line
371 to avoid redundancy.
372 To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
374 use with -l or -u.
375 -J , --usb
378 Show USB data for attached Hubs and Devices. Hubs also show num‐
379 ber of ports. Be aware that a port is not always external, some
380 may be internal, and either used or unused (for example, a moth‐
381 erboard USB header connector that is not used).
382 Hubs and Devices are listed in order of BusID.
384 BusID is generally in this format: BusID-port[.port][.port]:De‐
386 viceID
387 Device ID is a number created by the kernel, and has no neces‐
389 sary ordering or sequence connection, but can be used to match
390 this output to lsusb values, which generally shows BusID / Devi‐
391 ceID (except for tree view, which shows ports).
392 Examples: Device-3: 4-3.2.1:2 or Hub: 4-0:1
394 The rev: 2.0 item refers to the USB revision number, like 1.0 or
396 3.1.
397 -l , --label
400 Show partition labels. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show par‐
401 tition labels. Does nothing without one of those options.
402 Sample: -ojpl.
404 -L, --logical
407 Show Logical volume information, for LVM, LUKS, bcache, etc.
408 Shows size, free space (for LVM VG). For LVM, shows Device-[xx]:
409 VG: (Volume Group) size/free, LV-[xx] (Logical Volume). LV shows
410 type, size, and components. Note that components are made up of
411 either containers (aka, logical devices), or physical devices.
412 The full report requires doas/sudo/root.
413 Logical block devices can be thought of as devices that are made
415 up out of either other logical devices, or physical devices.
416 inxi does its best to show what each logical device is made out
417 of. RAID devices form a subset of all possible Logical devices,
418 but have their own section, -R.
419 If -R is used with -Lxx, -Lxx will not show RAID information for
421 LVM RAID devices since it's redundant. If -R is not used, a sim‐
422 ple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in -Lxx.
423 -Lxx also shows all components and devices. Note that since com‐
425 ponents can go in many levels, each level per primary component
426 is indicated by either another 'c', or ends with a 'p' device,
427 the physical device. The number of c's or p's indicates the
428 depth, so you can see which component belongs to which.
429 -L shows only the top level components/devices (like -R). -La
431 shows component/device size, maj:min ID, mapped name (if appli‐
432 cable), and puts each component/device on its own line.
433 Sample:
435 Device-10: mybackup type: LUKS dm: dm-28 size: 6.36 GiB Components:
437 c-1: md1 cc-1: dm-26 ppp-1: sdj2 cc-2: dm-27 ppp-1: sdk2
438 LV-5: lvm_raid1 type: raid1 dm: dm-16 size: 4.88 GiB
439 RAID: stripes: 2 sync: idle copied: 100% mismatches: 0
440 Components: c-1: dm-10 pp-1: sdd1 c-2: dm-11 pp-1: sdd1 c-3: dm-13
441 pp-1: sde1 c-4: dm-15 pp-1: sde1
442 It is easier to follow the flow of components and devices using
444 -y1. In this example, there is one primary component (c-1), md1,
445 which is made up of two components (cc-1,2), dm-26 and dm-27.
446 These are respectively made from physical devices (p-1) sdj2 and
447 sdk2.
448 Device-10: mybackup
450 maj-min: 254:28
451 type: LUKS
452 dm: dm-28
453 size: 6.36 GiB
454 Components:
455 c-1: md1
456 maj-min: 9:1
457 size: 6.37 GiB
458 cc-1: dm-26
459 maj-min: 254:26
460 mapped: vg5-level1a
461 size: 12.28 GiB
462 ppp-1: sdj2
463 maj-min: 8:146
464 size: 12.79 GiB
465 cc-2: dm-27
466 maj-min: 254:27
467 mapped: vg5-level1b
468 size: 6.38 GiB
469 ppp-1: sdk2
470 maj-min: 8:162
471 size: 12.79 GiB
472 Other types of logical block handling like LUKS, bcache show as:
474 Device-[xx] [name/id] type: [LUKS|Crypto|bcache]:
476 -m , --memory
479 Memory (RAM) data. Does not display with -b or -F unless you use
480 -m explicitly. Ordered by system board physical system memory
481 array(s) (Array-[number]), and individual memory devices (De‐
482 vice-[number]). Physical memory array data shows array capac‐
483 ity, number of devices supported, and Error Correction informa‐
484 tion. Devices shows locator data (highly variable in syntax),
485 type (eg: type: DDR3)size, speed.
486 Note: -m uses dmidecode, which must be run as root (or start
488 inxi with doas/sudo), unless you figure out how to set up
489 doas/sudo to permit dmidecode to read /dev/mem as user. speed
490 and bus-width will not show if No Module Installed is found in
491 size.
492 Note: If -m is triggered RAM total/used report will appear in
494 this section, not in -I or -tm items.
495 Because dmidecode data is extremely unreliable, inxi will try to
497 make best guesses. If you see (check) after the capacity number,
498 you should check it with the specifications. (est) is slightly
499 more reliable, but you should still check the real specifica‐
500 tions before buying RAM. Unfortunately there is nothing inxi can
501 do to get truly reliable data about the system RAM; maybe one
502 day the kernel devs will put this data into /sys, and make it
503 real data, taken from the actual system, not dmi data. For most
504 people, the data will be right, but a significant percentage of
505 users will have either a wrong max module size, if present, or
506 max capacity.
507 Under dmidecode, Speed: is the expected speed of the memory
509 (what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured
510 Clock Speed: is what the actual speed is now. To handle this, if
511 speed and configured speed values are different, you will see
512 this instead:
513 speed: spec: [specified speed] MT/S actual: [actual] MT/S
515 Also, if DDR, and speed in MHz, will change to: speed: [speed]
517 MT/S ([speed] MHz)
518 If the detected speed is logically absurd, like 1 MT/s or 69910
520 MT/s, adds: note: check. Sample:
521 Memory:
523 RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
524 Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
525 Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
526 Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
527 actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
528 Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
529 Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
530 actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check
531 See --memory-modules and --memory-short if you want a shorter
533 report.
534 --memory-modules, --mm
537 Memory (RAM) data. Show only RAM arrays and modules in Memory
538 report. Skip empty slots. See -m.
539 --memory-short, --ms
542 Memory (RAM) data. Show a one line RAM report in Memory. See -m.
543 Sample: Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4
545 -M , --machine
548 Show machine data. Device, Motherboard, BIOS, and if present,
549 System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older systems/kernels without the
550 required /sys data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. If
551 using dmidecode, may also show BIOS/UEFI revision as well as
552 version. --dmidecode forces use of dmidecode data instead of
553 /sys. Will also attempt to show if the system was booted by
554 BIOS, UEFI, or UEFI [Legacy], the latter being legacy BIOS boot
555 mode in a system board using UEFI.
556 Device information requires either /sys or dmidecode. Note that
558 other-vm? is a type that means it's usually a VM, but inxi
559 failed to detect which type, or positively confirm which VM it
560 is. Primary VM identification is via systemd-detect-virt but
561 fallback tests that should also support some BSDs are used. Less
562 commonly used or harder to detect VMs may not be correctly de‐
563 tected. If you get an incorrect output, post an issue and we'll
564 get it fixed if possible.
565 Due to unreliable vendor data, device type will show: desktop,
567 laptop, notebook, server, blade, plus some obscure stuff that
568 inxi is unlikely to ever run on.
569 -n , --network-advanced
572 Show Advanced Network device information in addition to that
573 produced by -N. Shows interface, speed, MAC ID, state, etc.
574 -N , --network
577 Show Network device(s) information, including device driver.
578 With -x, shows Bus ID, Port number.
579 --nvidia, --nv
582 Deprecated. See -Ga.
583 -o , --unmounted
586 Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and LABEL if
587 available). Shows file system type if you have lsblk installed
588 (Linux only). For BSD/GNU Linux: shows file system type if file
589 is installed, and if you are root or if you have added to
590 /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
591 <username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
593 doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.
595 Does not show components (partitions that create the md-raid ar‐
597 ray) of md-raid arrays.
598 To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
600 use with -l or -u.
601 -p , --partitions-full
604 Show full Partition information (-P plus all other detected
605 mounted partitions).
606 To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
608 use with -l or -u.
609 -P , --partitions
612 Show basic Partition information. Shows, if detected: / /boot
613 /boot/efi /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/tmp /var/log
614 (for android, shows /cache /data /firmware /system). If --swap
615 is not used, shows active swap partitions (never shows file or
616 zram type swap). Use -p to see all mounted partitions.
617 To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
619 use with -l or -u.
620 --processes
623 See -t.
624 -r , --repos
627 Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo types:
628 APK (Alpine Linux + derived versions)
630 APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived versions, as well as RPM based APT
632 distros like PCLinuxOS or Alt-Linux)
633 CARDS (NuTyX + derived versions)
635 EOPKG (Solus)
637 NIX (NixOS + other distros as alternate package manager)
639 PACMAN (Arch Linux, KaOS + derived versions)
641 PACMAN-G2 (Frugalware + derived versions)
643 PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
645 PKG (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
647 PORTAGE (Gentoo, Sabayon + derived versions)
649 PORTS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
651 SCRATCHPKG (Venom + derived versions)
653 SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
655 TCE (TinyCore)
657 URPMI (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)
659 XBPS (Void)
661 YUM/ZYPP (Fedora, Red Hat, Suse + derived versions)
663 More will be added as distro data is collected. If yours is
665 missing please show us how to get this information and we'll try
666 to add it.
667 See -rx, -rxx, and -ra for installed package count information.
669 -R , --raid
672 Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, device/array
673 size, and components. See extra data with -x / -xx.
674 md-raid: If device is resyncing, also shows resync progress
676 line.
677 Note: supported types: lvm raid, md-raid, softraid, ZFS, and
679 hardware RAID. Other software RAID types may be added, if the
680 software RAID can be made to give the required output.
681 The component ID numbers work like this: mdraid: the numerator
683 is the actual mdraid component number; lvm/softraid/ZFS: the nu‐
684 merator is auto-incremented counter only. Eg. Online: 1: sdb1
685 If hardware RAID is detected, shows basic information. Due to
687 complexity of adding hardware RAID device disk / RAID reports,
688 those will only be added if there is demand, and reasonable re‐
689 porting tools.
690 --recommends
693 Checks inxi application dependencies and recommends, as well as
694 directories, then shows what package(s) you need to install to
695 add support for each feature.
696 -s , --sensors
699 Show output from sensors if sensors installed/configured: Moth‐
700 erboard/CPU/GPU temperatures; detected fan speeds. GPU tempera‐
701 ture when available. Nvidia shows screen number for multiple
702 screens. IPMI sensors are also used (root required) if present.
703 See Advanced options --sensors-use or --sensors-exclude if you
705 want to use only a subset of all sensors, or exclude one (cur‐
706 rently only for lm-sensors and /sys sourced data).
707 For current Linux, will fallback gracefully to using
709 /sys/class/hwmon as sensor data source if lm-sensors is not in‐
710 stalled. You can compare the two by using --force sensors-sys
711 option with -s.
712 --slots
714 Show PCI slots with type, speed, and status information.
715 --swap
718 See -j
719 -S , --system
722 Show System information: host name, kernel, desktop environment
723 (if in X), distro. With -xx show dm - or startx - (only shows if
724 present and running if out of X), and if in X, with -xxx show
725 more desktop info, e.g. taskbar or panel.
726 -t , --processes
729 [c|m|cm|mc NUMBER] Show processes. If no arguments, defaults to
730 cm. If followed by a number, shows that number of processes for
731 each type (default: 5; if in IRC, max: 5)
732 Make sure that there is no space between letters and numbers
734 (e.g. write as -t cm10).
735 -t c - CPU only. With -x, also shows memory for that process on same
738 line.
739 -t m - memory only. With -x, also shows CPU for that process on same
742 line. If the -I or -m lines are not triggered, will also show
743 the system RAM used/total information.
744 -t cm - CPU+memory. With -x, shows also CPU or memory for that process
747 on same line.
748 -u , --uuid
751 Show partition UUIDs. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show parti‐
752 tion labels. Does nothing without one of those options.
753 Sample: -opju.
755 -U , --update
758 Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function.
759 If inxi -h has no listing for -U then it's disabled.
761 Auto-update script. Note: if you installed as root, you must be
763 root to update, otherwise user is fine. Also installs / updates
764 this man page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if /usr/lo‐
765 cal/share/man/ exists AND there is no inxi man page in
766 /usr/share/man/man1, otherwise it goes to /usr/share/man/man1).
767 This requires that you be root to write to that directory. See
768 --man or --no-man to force or disable man install.
769 --usb
772 See -J.
773 -V, --version
776 inxi full version and license information. Prints information
777 then exits.
778 --version-short, --vs
781 inxi single line version information. Prints information if not
782 short form (which shows version info already). Does not exit un‐
783 less used without any other options. Can be used with normal
784 line options.
785 -v , --verbosity
788 Script verbosity levels. If no verbosity level number is given,
789 0 is assumed. Should not be used with -b or -F.
790 Supported levels: 0-8 Examples : inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4
792 -v 0 - Short output, same as: inxi
795 -v 1 - Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU (cores, type, average clock
798 speed, and min/max speeds, if available) + -G + basic Disk + -I.
799 -v 2 - Adds networking device (-N), Machine (-M) data, Battery (-B)
802 (if available). Same as: inxi -b
803 -v 3 - Adds advanced CPU (-C) and network (-n) data; triggers -x ad‐
806 vanced data option.
807 -v 4 - Adds partition size/used data (-P) for (if present): / /home
810 /var/ /boot. Shows full disk data (-D)
811 -v 5 - Adds audio device (-A), memory/RAM (-m), bluetooth data (-E)
814 (if present), sensors (-s), RAID data (if present), partition
815 label (-l), UUID (-u), full swap data (-j), and short form of
816 optical drives.
817 -v 6 - Adds full mounted partition data (-p), unmounted partition
820 data (-o), optical drive data (-d), USB (-J); triggers -xx extra
821 data option.
822 -v 7 - Adds network IP data (-i), forced bluetooth (-E), Logical
825 (-L), RAID (-R), full CPU flags/features (-f), triggers -xxx
826 -v 8 - All system data available. Adds advanced EDID data (--edid),
829 Repos (-r), PCI slots (--slots), processes (-tcm), admin (--ad‐
830 min). Useful for testing output and to see what data you can get
831 from your system.
832 -w , --weather
835 Adds weather line. To get weather for an alternate location, use
836 -W [location]. See also -x, -xx, -xxx options. Please note that
837 your distribution's maintainer may chose to disable this fea‐
838 ture.
839 DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated
841 or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any fur‐
842 ther access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather
843 monitoring, or Conky type use. It is meant to get weather when
844 you need to see it, for example, on a remote server. If you did
845 not type the weather option in manually, it's an automated re‐
846 quest.
847 -W, --weather-location <location_string>
850 Get weather/time for an alternate location. Accepts postal/zip
851 code[, country], city,state pair, or latitude,longitude. Note:
852 city/country/state names must not contain spaces. Replace spaces
853 with '+' sign. Don't place spaces around any commas. Postal code
854 is not reliable except for North America and maybe the UK. Try
855 postal codes with and without country code added. Note that
856 City,State applies only to USA, otherwise it's City,Country. If
857 country name (english) does not work, try 2 character country
858 code (e.g. Spain: es; Great Britain: gb).
859 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 for current
861 2 letter country codes.
862 Use only ASCII letters in city/state/country names.
864 Examples: -W 95623,us OR -W Boston,MA OR -W 45.5234,-122.6762 OR
866 -W new+york,ny OR -W bodo,norway.
867 DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated
869 or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any fur‐
870 ther access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather
871 monitoring, or Conky type use. It is meant to get weather when
872 you need to see it, for example, on a remote server. If you did
873 not type the weather option in manually, it's an automated re‐
874 quest.
875 --weather-source, --ws <unit>
878 [1-9] Switches weather data source. Possible values are 1-9.
879 1-4 will generally be active, and 5-9 may or may not be active,
880 so check. 1 may not support city / country names with spaces
881 (even if you use the + sign instead of space). 2 offers pretty
882 good data, but may not have all small city names for -W.
883 Please note that the data sources are not static per value, and
885 can change any time, or be removed, so always test to verify
886 which source is being used for each value if that is important
887 to you. Data sources may be added or removed on occasions, so
888 try each one and see which you prefer. If you get unsupported
889 source message, it means that number has not been implemented.
890 --weather-unit <unit>
893 [m|i|mi|im] Sets weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), met‐
894 ric (imperial) (mi, default), imperial (metric) (im). If metric
895 or imperial not found,sets to default value, or N/A.
896
899 The following options allow for applying various types of filtering to
900 the output.
901 --filter , --filter-override
904 See -z, -Z.
905 --filter-label, --filter-uuid, --filter-vulnerabilities
908 See --zl, --zu, --zv.
909 --host Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file
912 value (if set):
913 SHOW_HOST='false' - Same as: SHOW_HOST='true'
915 This is an absolute override, the host will always show no mat‐
917 ter what other switches you use.
918 --no-host
921 Turns off hostname in System line. This is default when using
922 -z, for anonymizing inxi output for posting on forums or IRC.
923 Overrides configuration value (if set):
924 SHOW_HOST='true' - Same as: SHOW_HOST='false'
926 This is an absolute override, the host will not show no matter
928 what other switches you use.
929 -z, --filter
932 Adds security filters for IP addresses, serial numbers, MAC, lo‐
933 cation (-w), and user home directory name. Removes Host:. On by
934 default for IRC clients.
935 --za, --filter-all
938 Shortcut to trigger -z, --zl, --zu, --zv. All the filters, that
939 is.
940 --zl, --filter-label
943 Filter partition label names from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa
944 (root=LABEL=...). Generally only useful in very specialized
945 cases.
946 --zu, --filter-uuid
949 Filter partition UUIDs from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa
950 (root=UUID=...). Generally only useful in very specialized
951 cases.
952 --zv, --filter-v, --filter-vulnerabilities
955 Filter Vulnerabilities report from -Ca. Generally only useful in
956 very specialized cases.
957 -Z , --filter-override , --no-filter
960 Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging net‐
961 working issues in IRC for example.
962
965 The following options allow for modifying the output in various ways.
966 -c , --color [0-42]
969 Set color scheme. If no scheme number is supplied, 0 is assumed.
970 -c [94-99]
973 These color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi
974 starting which lets you set the config file value for the selec‐
975 tion.
976 NOTE: All configuration file set color values are removed when
978 output is piped or redirected. You must use the explicit runtime
979 -c <color number> option if you want color codes to be present
980 in the piped/redirected output.
981 Color selectors for each type display (NOTE: IRC and global only
983 show safe color set):
984 -c 94 - Console, out of X.
987 -c 95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.
990 -c 96 - GUI IRC, running in X - like XChat, Quassel, Konversation etc.
993 -c 97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.
996 -c 98 - Console IRC not in X.
999 -c 99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.
1002 Setting a specific color type removes the global color selec‐
1004 tion.
1005 --indent [11-xx]
1008 Change primary wide indent width. Generally useless. Only ap‐
1009 plied if output width is greater than max wrap width (see
1010 --max-wrap). Use configuration item INDENT to make permanent.
1011 --indents [0-10]
1014 Change primary wrap mode, second, and -y1 level indents. First
1015 indent level only applied if output width is less than max wrap
1016 width (see --max-wrap). 0 disables all wrapped indents and all
1017 second level indents. Use configuration item INDENTS to make
1018 permanent.
1019 --limit [-1 - x]
1022 Raise or lower max output limit of IP addresses for -i. -1 re‐
1023 moves limit.
1024 --max-wrap, --wrap-max [integer]
1027 Overrides default or configuration set line starter wrap width
1028 value. Wrap max is the maximum width that inxi will wrap line
1029 starters (e.g. Info:) to their own lines, with data lines in‐
1030 dented default 2 columns (use --indents to change).
1031 If terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width,
1033 wrapping of line starter occurs. If 80 or less, no wrapping will
1034 occur. Overrides internal default value (110) and user configu‐
1035 ration value MAX_WRAP.
1036 --output [json|screen|xml]
1039 Change data output type. Requires --output-file if not screen.
1040 --output-file [full path to output file|print]
1043 The given directory path must exist. The directory path given
1044 must exist, The print options prints to stdout. Required for
1045 non-screen --output formats (json|xml).
1046 --partition-sort [dev-base|fs|id|label|percent-used|size|uuid|used]
1049 Change default sort order of partition output. Corresponds to
1050 PARTITION_SORT configuration item. These are the available sort
1051 options:
1052 dev-base - /dev partition identifier, like /dev/sda1. Note that
1054 it's an alphabetic sort, so sda12 is before sda2.
1055 fs - Partition filesystem. Note that sorts will be somewhat ran‐
1057 dom if all filesystems are the same.
1058 id - Mount point of partition (default).
1060 label - Label of partition. If partitions have no labels, sort
1062 will be random.
1063 percent-used - Percentage of partition size used.
1065 size - KiB size of partition.
1067 uuid - UUID of the partition.
1069 used - KiB used of partition.
1071 --wrap-max [integer]
1074 See --max-wrap.
1075 -y, --width [integer]
1078 This is an absolute width override which sets the output line
1079 width max. Overrides COLS_MAX_IRC, COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY,
1080 COLS_MAX_CONSOLE configuration items, or the actual widths of
1081 the terminal.
1082 * -y - sets default width of 80 columns.
1084 * -y [60-xxx] - sets width to given number. Must be 60 or more.
1085 * -y 1 - switches to a single indented key/value pair per line,
1086 and removes all long line wrapping (similar to dmidecode out‐
1087 put). Not recommended for use with -Y;
1088 * -y -1 - removes width limits (if assigned by configuration
1089 items).
1090 Examples:
1092 inxi -Fxx -y 130
1093 inxi -Fxxy
1094 inxi -bay1
1095 -Y, --height, --less [-3-[integer]
1098 Control output height. Useful when in console, and scrollback
1099 not available. Breaks output flow based on values provided.
1100 * -Y 0 or -Y - Set default max height to terminal height.
1102 * -Y [1-xxx] - set max output block height height in lines.
1103 * -Y -1 - Print out one primary data item block (like CPU:, Sys‐
1104 tem:) at a time. Useful for very long outputs like -Fa, -v8,
1105 etc. Not available for -h.
1106 * -Y -2 - Do not disable output colors when redirected or piped
1107 to another program. Useful if piping output to less -R for exam‐
1108 ple. This does not limit the height otherwise since the expecta‐
1109 tion it is being piped to another program like less which will
1110 handle that.
1111 * -Y -3 - Restore default unlimited output lines if LINES_MAX
1112 configuration item set.
1113 Recommended to use the following for very clean up and down
1115 scrollable output out of display, while retaining the color
1116 schemes, which are normally removed with piping or redirect:
1117 pinxi -v8Y -2 | less -R
1119 Note: since it's not possible for inxi to know how many actual
1121 terminal lines are being used by terminal wrapped output, with
1122 -y 1 , it may be better in general to use a fixed height like:
1123 -y 1 -Y 20 instead of: -y 1 -Y
1125
1128 These options can be triggered by one or more -x. Alternatively, the
1129 -v options trigger them in the following way: -v 3 adds -x; -v 6 adds
1130 -xx; -v 7 adds -xxx
1131 These extra data triggers can be useful for getting more in-depth data
1133 on various options. They can be added to any long form option list,
1134 e.g.: -bxx or -Sxxx
1135 There are 3 extra data levels:
1137 -x, -xx, -xxx
1138 OR
1139 --extra 1, --extra 2, --extra 3
1140 The following details show which lines / items display extra informa‐
1142 tion for each extra data level.
1143 -x -A - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
1146 specific vendor [product] information.
1147 - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each
1149 device.
1150 - Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
1152 - Adds non-running sound servers, if detected.
1154 -x -B - Adds vendor/model, battery status (if battery present).
1157 - Adds attached battery powered peripherals (Device-[number]:)
1159 if detected (keyboard, mouse, etc.).
1160 - Adds battery volts:, min: voltages. Note that if difference is
1162 critical, that is current voltage is too close to minimum volt‐
1163 age, shows without -x.
1164 -x -C - Adds bogomips to CPU speed report (if available).
1167 - Adds L1: and L3: cache types if either are present/available.
1169 For BSD or legacy Linux, uses dmidecode + doas/sudo/root. Force
1170 use of dmidecode cache values by adding --dmidecode. This will
1171 override /sys based cache data, which tends to be better, so in
1172 general don't do that.
1173 - Adds boost: [enabled|disabled] if detected, aka turbo. Not all
1175 CPUs have this feature.
1176 - Adds CPU Flags (short list). Use -f to see full flag/feature
1178 list.
1179 - Adds CPU microarchitecture + revision (e.g. Sandy Bridge, K8,
1181 ARMv8, P6, etc.). Only shows data if detected. Newer microarchi‐
1182 tectures will have to be added as they appear, and require the
1183 CPU family ID, model ID, and stepping.
1184 - Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) is available but
1186 disabled, after type: data smt: disabled. type: MT means it's
1187 enabled. See -Cxxx.
1188 Examples:
1190 arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 2
1191 arch: K8 rev.F+ rev: 2
1192 If unable to non-ambiguosly determine architecture, will show
1194 something like: arch: Amber Lake note: check rev: 9
1195 - Adds CPU highest speed after avg: [speed] high: [speed] if
1197 greater than 1 core and cores have different speeds. Linux only.
1198 -x -d - Adds more items to Features line of optical drive; dds rev
1201 version to optical drive.
1202 -x -D - Adds drive temperature with disk data.
1205 Method 1: Systems running Linux kernels ~5.6 and newer should
1207 have drivetemp module data available. If so, drive temps will
1208 come from /sys data for each drive, and will not require root or
1209 hddtemp. This method is MUCH faster than using hddtemp. Note
1210 that NVMe drives do not require drivetemp.
1211 If your drivetemp module is not enabled, enable it:
1213 modprobe drivetemp
1215 Once enabled, add drivetemp to /etc/modules or /etc/mod‐
1217 ules-load.d/***.conf so it starts automatically.
1218 If you see drive temps running as regular user and you did not
1220 configure system to use doas/sudo hddtemp, then your system sup‐
1221 ports this feature. If no /sys data is found, inxi will try to
1222 use hddtemp methods instead for that drive. Hint: if temp is
1223 /sys sourced, the temp will be to 1 decimal, like 34.8, if hd‐
1224 dtemp sourced, they will be integers.
1225 Method 2: if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root or if
1227 you have added to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
1228 <username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
1230 doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.
1232 You can force use of hddtemp for all drives using --hddtemp.
1234 - If free LVM volume group size detected (root required), show
1236 lvm-free: on Local Storage line. This is how much unused space
1237 the VGs contain, that is, space not assigned to LVs.
1238 -x -E (--bluetooth)
1241 - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
1242 specific vendor [product] information.
1243 - Adds PCI/USB Bus ID of each device.
1245 - Adds driver version (if available) for each device.
1247 - Adds (if available, and hciconfig only) LMP (HCI if no LMP
1249 data, and HCI if HCI/LMP versions are different) version (if
1250 available) for each HCI ID.
1251 -x -G - Adds GPU micro-architecture (if AMD/Intel/Nvidia and de‐
1254 tected).
1255 - Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
1257 - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
1259 specific vendor [product] information.
1260 - X.org: Adds direct rendering status.
1262 - X.org: Adds (for single GPU, nvidia driver) screen number that
1264 GPU is running on.
1265 - Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
1267 -x -i - Adds IP v6 additional scope data, like Global, Site, Temporary
1270 for each interface.
1271 Note that there is no way we are aware of to filter out the dep‐
1273 recated IP v6 scope site/global temporary addresses from the
1274 output of ifconfig. The ip tool shows that clearly.
1275 ip-v6-temporary - (ip tool only), scope global temporary. Scope
1277 global temporary deprecated is not shown
1278 ip-v6-global - scope global (ifconfig will show this for all
1280 types, global, global temporary, and global temporary depre‐
1281 cated, ip shows it only for global)
1282 ip-v6-link - scope link (ip/ifconfig) - default for -i.
1284 ip-v6-site - scope site (ip/ifconfig). This has been deprecated
1286 in IPv6, but still exists. ifconfig may show multiple site val‐
1287 ues, as with global temporary, and global temporary deprecated.
1288 ip-v6-unknown - unknown scope
1290 -x -I - Adds current init system (and init rc in some cases, like
1293 OpenRC). With -xx, shows init/rc version number, if available.
1294 - Adds default system gcc. With -xx, also show other installed
1296 gcc versions.
1297 - Adds current runlevel/target (not available with all init sys‐
1299 tems).
1300 - Adds total packages discovered in system. See -xx and -a for
1302 per package manager types output. Moves to Repos if -rx.
1303 If your package manager is not supported, please file an issue
1305 and we'll add it. That requires the full output of the query or
1306 method to discover all installed packages on your system, as
1307 well of course as the command or method used to discover those.
1308 - If in shell (i.e. not in IRC client), adds shell version num‐
1310 ber, if available.
1311 -x -j, -x --swap
1314 Add mapper:. See -x -o.
1315 -x -J (--usb)
1318 - For Devices, adds driver(s).
1319 -x -L, -x --logical
1322 - Adds dm: dm-x to VG > LV and other Device types. This can help
1323 tracking down which device belongs to what.
1324 -x -m, --memory-modules
1327 - If present, adds maximum memory module/device size in the Ar‐
1328 ray line. Only some systems will have this data available.
1329 Shows estimate if it can generate one.
1330 -x -N - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
1333 specific vendor [product] information.
1334 - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each
1336 device;
1337 - Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
1339 - Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
1341 -x -o, -x -p, -x -P
1344 - Adds mapper: (the /dev/mapper/ partition ID) if mapped parti‐
1345 tion.
1346 Example: ID-4: /home ... dev: /dev/dm-6 mapped: ar0-home
1348 -x -r - Adds Package info. See -Ix
1351 -x -R - md-raid: Adds second RAID Info line with extra data: blocks,
1354 chunk size, bitmap (if present). Resync line, shows blocks
1355 synced/total blocks.
1356 - Hardware RAID: Adds driver version, Bus ID.
1358 -x -s - Adds basic voltages: 12v, 5v, 3.3v, vbat (ipmi, lm-sensors /
1361 /sys/class/hwmon if present).
1362 -x -S - Adds Kernel gcc version.
1365 - Adds to Distro: base: if detected. System base will only be
1367 seen on a subset of distributions. The distro must be both de‐
1368 rived from a parent distro (e.g. Mint from Ubuntu), and explic‐
1369 itly added to the supported distributions for this feature. Due
1370 to the complexity of distribution identification, these will
1371 only be added as relatively solid methods are found for each
1372 distribution system base detection.
1373 -x --slots
1376 - Adds slot bus-ID:, if found.
1377 -x -t (--processes)
1380 - Adds memory use output to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory
1381 (-xt m).
1382 -x -w , -W
1385 - Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
1386 - Adds wind speed and direction.
1388 -xx -A - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
1391 - Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, if detected).
1393 -xx -B - Adds serial number.
1396 -xx -D - Adds disk serial number.
1399 - Adds disk speed (if available). This is the theoretical top
1401 speed of the device as reported. This speed may be restricted by
1402 system board limits, eg. a SATA 3 drive on a SATA 2 board may
1403 report SATA 2 speeds, but this is not completely consistent,
1404 sometimes a SATA 3 device on a SATA 2 board reports its design
1405 speed.
1406 NVMe drives: adds lanes, and (per direction) speed is calculated
1408 with lane speed * lanes * PCIe overhead. PCIe 1 and 2 have data
1409 rates of GT/s * .8 = Gb/s (10 bits required to transfer 8 bits
1410 of data). PCIe 3 and greater transfer data at a rate of GT/s *
1411 128/130 * lanes = Gb/s (130 bits required to transfer 128 bits
1412 of data).
1413 For a PCIe 3 NVMe drive, with speed of 8 GT/s and 4 lanes (8GT/s
1415 * 128/130 * 4 = 31.6 Gb/s):
1416 speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
1418 - Adds disk duid, if available. Some BSDs have it.
1420 -xx -E (--bluetooth)
1423 - Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
1424 - Adds (hciconfig only) LMP subversion (and/or HCI revision if
1426 applicable) for each device.
1427 - Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe blue‐
1429 tooth, which is rare).
1430 -xx -G Triggers much more complete Screen/Monitor output.
1433 X.org: requires xdpyinfo or xrandr, and the advanced per monitor
1435 feature requires xrandr.
1436 Wayland: requires any tool capable of showing monitor and reso‐
1438 lution information. Sway has swaymsg, weston-info or way‐
1439 land-info can show Wayland information on any Wayland composi‐
1440 tor, and wlr-randr can show Wayland information for any wlroots
1441 based compositor.
1442 Further note that all references to Displays, Screens, and Moni‐
1444 tors are referring to the X or Wayland technical terms, not nor‐
1445 mal consumer usage.
1446 X.org: 1 Display runs 1 or more Screens, and 1 Screen runs 1 or
1448 more Monitors.
1449 Wayland: The Display is the primary container, and it can con‐
1451 tain 1 or more Monitors.
1452 - Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
1454 - Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device
1456 and detected).
1457 - Adds output port IDs, active, off (connected but disabled,
1459 like a closed laptop lid) and empty. Example:
1460 ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
1462 - Adds Display ID. X.org: the Display running the Screen that
1464 runs the Monitors; Wayland: the Display that runs the monitors.
1465 - Adds compositor, if found (always shows for Wayland).
1467 - Wayland: Adds to Display d-rect: if > 1 monitors in Display.
1469 This is the size of the rectangle Wayland creates to situate the
1470 monitors in.
1471 - X.org: If available, shows alternate: Xorg drivers. This means
1473 a driver on the default list of drivers Xorg automatically
1474 checks for the device, but which is not installed. For example,
1475 if you have nouveau driver, nvidia would show as alternate if it
1476 was not installed. Note that alternate: does NOT mean you should
1477 have it, it's just one of the drivers Xorg checks to see if is
1478 present and loaded when checking the device. This can let you
1479 know there are other driver options. Note that if you have ex‐
1480 plicitly set the driver in xorg.conf, Xorg will not create this
1481 automatic check driver list.
1482 - Xorg: Adds total number of Screens listed for the current Dis‐
1484 play.
1485 - Xorg: Adds default Screen ID if Screen (not monitor!) total is
1487 greater than 1.
1488 - X.org: Adds Screen line, which includes the ID (Screen: 0)
1490 then s-res (Screen resolution), s-dpi. Remember, this is an Xorg
1491 Screen, NOT a monitor screen, and the information listed is
1492 about the Xorg Screen! It may at times be the same as a single
1493 monitor system, but usually it's different in some ways. Note
1494 that the physical monitor dpi and the Xorg dpi are not necessar‐
1495 ily the same thing, and can vary widely.
1496 - Adds Monitor lines. Monitors are a subset of a Screen (X.org)
1498 or Display (Wayland), each of which can have one or more moni‐
1499 tors. Normally a dual monitor setup is 2 monitors run by one
1500 Xorg Screen/Wayland Display.
1501 - pos: [primary,]{position string|row-col} (X.org: requires
1503 xrandr; Wayland: requires swaymsg [sway], wlr-randr [wlroots
1504 based compositors], weston-info / wayland-info [all]). Uses ei‐
1505 ther explicit primary value or +0+0 position if no primary moni‐
1506 tor value set. pos: does not show for single monitor setups, or
1507 if no position data was found.
1508 Position is text (left, center, center-l, center-r, right, top,
1510 top-left, top-center, top-right, middle, middle-c, middle-r,
1511 bottom, bottom-l, bottom-c, bottom-r) if monitors fit within the
1512 following grids: 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3. If
1513 layout not supported in text, uses [row-nu]-[column-nu] instead
1514 to indicate the monitor's position in its grid.
1515 The position is based on the upper left corner of each monitor
1517 relative to the grid of monitors that the Xorg Screen is com‐
1518 posed of.
1519 - diag: monitor screen diagonal in mm (inches). Note that this
1521 is the real monitor size, not the Xorg full Screen diagonal
1522 size, which can be quite different.
1523 - For free drivers, adds OpenGL compatibility version number if
1525 available. For nonfree drivers, the core version and compatibil‐
1526 ity versions are usually the same. Example:
1527 v: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 compat-v: 3.0
1529 -xx -I - Adds init type version number (and rc if present).
1532 - Adds other detected installed gcc versions (if present).
1534 - Adds system default runlevel/target, if detected. Supports
1536 Systemd / Upstart /SysVinit type defaults.
1537 - Shows Packages: counts by discovered package manager types
1539 (pm:). In cases where only 1 pm had results, does not show to‐
1540 tal after Packages:. Does not show installed package managers
1541 with 0 packages. See -a for full output. Moves to Repos if -rxx.
1542 - Adds parent program (or pty/tty) that started shell, if not
1544 IRC client.
1545 -xx -j (--swap), -xx -p, -xx -P
1548 - Adds swap priority to each swap partition (for -P) used, and
1549 for all swap types (for -j).
1550 -xx -J (--usb)
1553 - Adds vendor:chip id.
1554 -xx -L, -xx --logical
1557 - Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta
1558 data volumes.
1559 - Adds full list of Components, sub-components, and their physi‐
1561 cal devices.
1562 - For LVM RAID, adds a RAID report line (if not -R). Read up on
1564 LVM documentation to better understand their use of the term
1565 'stripes'.
1566 -xx -m, --memory-modules
1569 - Adds memory device Manufacturer.
1570 - Adds memory device Part Number (part-no:). Useful for ordering
1572 new or replacement memory sticks etc. Part numbers are unique,
1573 particularly if you use the word memory in the search as well.
1574 With -xxx, also shows serial number.
1575 - Adds single/double bank memory, if data is found. Note, this
1577 may not be 100% right all of the time since it depends on the
1578 order that data is found in dmidecode output for type 6 and type
1579 17.
1580 - Adds, if present, memory array voltage. Only some legacy sys‐
1582 tems will have this data available.
1583 - Adds memory module current configured operating voltage, if
1585 available.
1586 -xx -M - Adds chassis information, if data is available. Also shows
1589 BIOS ROM size if using dmidecode.
1590 -xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
1593 - Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device
1595 and detected).
1596 -xx -r - Adds to Packages: info. See -Ixx
1599 -xx -R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present) and algorithm. If
1602 resync, shows progress bar.
1603 - Hardware RAID: Adds Chip vendor:product ID.
1605 -xx -s - Adds DIMM/SOC voltages, if present (ipmi only).
1608 -xx -S - Adds display manager (dm) type, if present. If none, shows
1611 N/A. Supports most known display managers, including gdm, gdm3,
1612 idm, kdm, lightdm, lxdm, mdm, nodm, sddm, slim, tint, wdm, and
1613 xdm.
1614 - Adds, if run in X, window manager type (wm), if available. Not
1616 all window managers are supported. Some desktops support using
1617 more than one window manager, so this can be useful to see what
1618 window manager is actually running. If none found, shows noth‐
1619 ing. Uses a less accurate fallback tool wmctrl if ps tests fail
1620 to find data.
1621 - Adds desktop toolkit (tk), if available (Xfce/KDE/Trinity).
1623 -xx --slots
1626 - Adds slot length.
1627 - Adds slot voltage, if available.
1629 -xx -w , -W
1632 - Adds wind chill, heat index, and dew point, if available.
1633 - Adds cloud cover, rain, snow, or precipitation (amount in pre‐
1635 vious hour to observation time), if available.
1636 -xxx -A
1639 - Adds, if present, serial number.
1640 - Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
1642 -xxx -B
1645 - Adds battery chemistry (e.g. Li-ion), cycles (NOTE: there ap‐
1646 pears to be a problem with the Linux kernel obtaining the cycle
1647 count, so this almost always shows 0. There's nothing that can
1648 be done about this glitch, the data is simply not available as
1649 of 2018-04-03), location (only available from dmidecode derived
1650 output).
1651 - Adds attached device rechargeable: [yes|no] information.
1653 -xxx -C
1656 - Adds CPU voltage and external clock speed (this is the mother‐
1657 board speed). Requires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode.
1658 - Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) data is available,
1660 after type: data smt: [status].
1661 smt: [status]
1662 MT in type: will show if smt is enabled in general. 3 values are
1663 possible: [enabled|disabled|<unsupported>]. <unsupported> means
1664 the CPU does not support SMT.
1665 -xxx -D
1668 - Adds disk firmware revision number (if available).
1669 - Adds disk partition scheme (in most cases), e.g. scheme: GPT.
1671 Currently not able to detect all schemes, but handles the most
1672 common, e.g. GPT or MBR.
1673 - Adds disk type (HDD/SSD), rotation speed (in some but not all
1675 cases), e.g. type: HDD rpm: 7200, or type: SSD if positive SSD
1676 identification was made. If no HDD, rotation, or positive SSD ID
1677 found, shows type: N/A. Not all HDD spinning disks report their
1678 speed, so even if they are spinning, no rpm data will show.
1679 -xxx -E (--bluetooth)
1682 - Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
1683 - Adds (hciconfig only) HCI version, revision.
1685 -xxx -G
1688 - Adds, if present, Device PCI/USB class ID.
1689 - Adds to Device serial: number (if found).
1691 - Xorg: Adds to Screen: s-size: and s-diag:. (Screen size data
1693 requires xdpyinfo). This is the X.org Screen dimensions, NOT the
1694 Monitor size!
1695 - Adds to Monitors (if detected) frequency (hz:).
1697 - Adds to Monitors (if detected) size (size: 277x156mm
1699 (10.9x6.1")). Note that this is the real physical monitor size,
1700 not the Xorg Screen/Wayland Display size, which can be quite
1701 different (1 Xorg Screen / Wayland Display can for instance con‐
1702 tain two or more monitors).
1703 - Adds to Monitors modes: min: max: (if detected). These are the
1705 smallest and largest monitor modes found, using an inexact
1706 method, so might not always be right.
1707 - Adds to Monitors serial: number (if detected).
1709 - Wayland: Adds to Monitors scale: (if detected).
1711 -xxx -I
1714 - For Uptime: adds wakeups: to show how many times the machine
1715 has been woken from suspend state during current uptime period
1716 (if available, Linux only). 0 value means the machine has not
1717 been suspended.
1718 - For Shell: adds (su|sudo|login) to shell name if present.
1720 - For Shell: adds default: shell if different from running
1722 shell, and default shell v:, if available.
1723 - For running-in: adds (SSH) to parent, if present. SSH detec‐
1725 tion uses the whoami test.
1726 -xxx -J (--usb)
1729 - Adds, if present, serial number for non hub devices.
1730 - Adds interfaces: for non hub devices.
1732 - Adds, if available, USB speed in Mbits/s or Gbits/s.
1734 - Adds, if present, USB class ID.
1736 - Adds, if non 0, max power in mA.
1738 -xxx -m, --memory-modules
1741 - Adds memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, to‐
1742 tal width. e.g.
1743 width (bits): data: 64 total: 72
1745 Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmide‐
1747 code output, so inxi will take the larger value as the total if
1748 present. Data width usually corresponds to the CPU bits. Total
1749 can reflect EEC or Dual Channel widths. If no total width data
1750 is found, shows:
1751 width: N/A
1753 - Adds device type detail, e.g. type: DDR3 detail: Synchronous.
1755 - Adds device serial number.
1757 - Adds memory module current, max, and min voltages, if they are
1759 available and different from each other. If they are the identi‐
1760 cal, displays same as -xxm voltage report. Use -ma to always see
1761 them.
1762 -xxx -N
1765 - Adds, if present, serial number.
1766 - Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
1768 -xxx -R
1771 - md-raid: Adds system mdraid support types (kernel support,
1772 read ahead, RAID events)
1773 - zfs-raid: Adds portion allocated (used) by RAID array/device.
1775 - Hardware RAID: Adds rev, ports, and (if available and/or rele‐
1777 vant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor [product] infor‐
1778 mation.
1779 -xxx -S
1782 - Adds, if in X, or with --display, bar/dock/panel/tray items
1783 (info). If none found, shows nothing. Supports desktop items
1784 like gnome-panel, lxpanel, xfce4-panel, lxqt-panel, tint2,
1785 cairo-dock, trayer, and many others.
1786 - Adds (if present), window manager (wm) version number.
1788 - Adds (if present), display manager (dm) version number.
1790 - Adds (if available, and in display), virtual terminal (vt)
1792 number. These are the same as ctrl+alt+F[x] numbers usually.
1793 Some systems have this, some don't, it varies.
1794 -xxx -w , -W
1797 - Adds location (city state country), observation altitude (if
1798 available), weather observation time (if available), sunset/sun‐
1799 rise (if available).
1800
1803 These options are triggered with --admin or -a. Admin options are ad‐
1804 vanced output options, and are more technical, and mostly of interest
1805 to system administrators or other machine admins.
1806 The --admin option sets -xxx, and only has to be used once. It will
1808 trigger the following features:
1809 -a -A - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable
1812 of driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If
1813 no non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because
1814 it lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system,
1815 it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in‐
1816 stead.
1817 - Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐
1819 eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
1820 items different from primary shown).
1821 -a -C
1824 - Adds CPU generation, process node, and built years, if de‐
1825 tected. For Intel, only will show if Core generation, otherwise
1826 the arch value is enough. For AMD, only shows Zen generation.
1827 - Adds microarchitecture level: (v1,v2,v3,v4) (64 bit Intel/AMD
1829 CPUs only). This information is used for setting compile time
1830 optimization switches in for example GCC. These levels were in‐
1831 troduced in 2020.
1832 Because this a CPU flag based test, and these levels when > 2
1834 are not always 100% based on exposed CPU flags (eg OSXSAVE), for
1835 > v2, adds note: check.
1836 - Adds CPU family, model-id, and stepping (replaces rev of -Cx).
1838 Format is hexadecimal (decimal) if greater than 9, otherwise
1839 hexadecimal.
1840 - Adds CPU microcode. Format is hexadecimal.
1842 - Adds socket type (for motherboard CPU socket, if available).
1844 If results doubtful will list two socket types and note: check.
1845 Requires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. The item in parentheses
1846 may simply be a different syntax for the same socket, but in
1847 general, check this before trusting it.
1848 Sample: socket: 775 (478) note: check
1850 Sample: socket: AM4
1851 - Adds DMI CPU base and boost/turbo speeds. Requires
1853 doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. In some cases, like with over‐
1854 clocking or 'turbo' or 'boost' modes, voltage and external clock
1855 speeds may be increased, or short term limits raised on max CPU
1856 speeds. These are often not reflected in /sys based CPU min/max:
1857 speed results, but often are using this source.
1858 Samples:
1860 CPU not overclocked, with boost, like Ryzen:
1861 Speed (MHz):
1862 avg: 2861
1863 high: 3250
1864 min/max: 1550/3400
1865 boost: enabled
1866 base/boost: 3400/3900
1867 Overclocked 2900 MHz CPU, with no boost available:
1868 Speed (MHz):
1869 avg: 2345
1870 high: 2900
1871 min/max: 800/2900
1872 base/boost: 3350/3000
1873 Overclocked 3000 MHz CPU, with boosted max speed:
1874 Speed (MHz):
1875 avg: 3260
1876 high: 4190
1877 min/max: 1200/3001
1878 base/boost: 3000/4000
1879 Note that these numbers can be confusing, but basically, the
1881 base number is the actual normal top speed the CPU runs at with‐
1882 out boost mode, and the boost number is the max speed the CPU
1883 reports itself able to run at. The actual max speed may be
1884 higher than either value, or lower. The boost number appears to
1885 be hard-coded into the CPU DMI data, and does not seem to re‐
1886 flect actual max speeds that overclocking or other combinations
1887 of speed boosters can enable, as you can see from the example
1888 where the CPU is running at a speed faster than the min/max or
1889 base/boost values.
1890 Note that the normal min/max: speeds do NOT show actual over‐
1892 clocked OR boost/turbo mode speeds, and appear to be hard-coded
1893 values, not dynamic real values. The base/boost: values are
1894 sometimes real, and sometimes not. base appears in general to
1895 be real.
1896 - Adds frequency scaling: governor:.. driver:.. if found/avail‐
1898 able. Also adds scaling min/max speeds if different from stan‐
1899 dard CPU min/max spees (not common).
1900 - Adds description of cache topology per cpu. Linux only.
1902 - Creates new Topology: line after the Info: line. Moves cache
1904 data to this line from Info: line.
1905 Topology line contains, if available and/or relevant: physical
1907 CPU count (cpus:); per physical cpu core count (cores:); threads
1908 per core, if > 1 (tpc:); how many threads: (if more threads than
1909 cores); dies: (rarely detected, but if so, if > 1); smt status
1910 (if no smt status found, shows N/A).
1911 If complex CPU type, like Alder lake, cores; will have a more
1913 granular breakdown of how many mt (multi-threaded) and how many
1914 st (single-threaded) cores there in the physical cpu (
1915 mt-cores:, st-cores:); For complex CPU types like ARM SoC de‐
1916 vices with 2 CPU types, with different core counts and/or
1917 min/max:) frequencies, variant: per type found, with relevant
1918 differences shown, like cores:, min/max:, etc.
1919 CPU:
1921 Info:
1922 model: AMD EPYC 7281
1923 bits: 64
1924 type: MT MCP MCM SMP
1925 arch: Zen
1926 gen: 1
1927 level: v3
1928 note: check
1929 process: GF 14nm
1930 built: 2017-19
1931 family:0x17 (23)
1932 model-id:1
1933 stepping: 2
1934 microcode: 0x8001250
1935 Topology:
1936 cpus: 2
1937 cores: 16
1938 tpc: 2
1939 threads: 32
1940 dies: 4
1941 cache:
1942 L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB)
1943 desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x64 KiB
1944 L2: 2x 8 MiB (16 MiB)
1945 desc: 16x512 KiB
1946 L3: 2x 32 MiB (64 MiB)
1947 desc: 8x4 MiB
1948 Speed (MHz):
1949 avg: 1195
1950 high: 1197
1951 min/max: 1200/2100
1952 boost: enabled
1953 scaling:
1954 driver: acpi-cpufreq
1955 governor: ondemand
1956 cores:
1957 1: 1195
1958 2: 1196
1959 ....
1960 bogomips: 267823
1961 - Adds CPU Vulnerabilities (bugs) as known by your current ker‐
1963 nel. Lists by Type: ... (status|mitigation): .... for systems
1964 that support this feature (Linux kernel 4.14 or newer, or
1965 patched older kernels).
1966 -a -d,-a -D
1969 - Adds logical and physical block size in bytes.
1970 Using smartctl (requires doas/sudo/root privileges).
1972 - Adds device model family, like Caviar Black, if available.
1974 - Adds SATA type (eg 1.0, 2.6, 3.0) if a SATA device.
1976 - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
1978 - Adds SMART report line: status, enabled/disabled, health, pow‐
1980 ered on, cycles, and some error cases if out of range values.
1981 Note that for Pre-fail items, it will show the VALUE and THRESH‐
1982 OLD numbers. It will also fall back for unknown attributes that
1983 are or have been failing and print out the Attribute name,
1984 value, threshold, and failing message. This way even for unhan‐
1985 dled Attribute names, you should get a solid report for full
1986 failure cases. Other cases may show if inxi believes that the
1987 item may be approaching failure. This is a guess so make sure to
1988 check the drive and smartctl full output to verify before taking
1989 any further action.
1990 - Adds, for USB or other external drives, actual model name/se‐
1992 rial if available, and different from enclosure model/serial,
1993 and corrects block sizes if necessary. Adds in drive temperature
1994 for some drives as well, and other useful data.
1995 -a -E (--bluetooth)
1998 - Adds (hciconfig only) extra line to Report:, Info:. Includes,
1999 if available, ACL MTU, SCO MTU, Link policy, Link mode, and Ser‐
2000 vice Classes.
2001 - Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐
2003 eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
2004 items different from primary shown. Bluetooth PCIe rare).
2005 -a -G - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable
2008 of driving each Device-x (not including the current loaded:). If
2009 no non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because
2010 it lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system,
2011 it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in‐
2012 stead.
2013 - Adds (AMD/Intel/Nvidia, if available) process: [node] built:
2015 [years] to arch: item.
2016 - Adds (if Linux and Nvidia device) non-free support information
2018 (if available). This can be useful for forum support people to
2019 determine if the card supports current active legacy Nvidia
2020 driver branches, or if the card nonfree driver is EOL or active.
2021 Note that if card is current, shows basic series and status.
2022 Includes extended non free Nvidia legacy informatin (Linux and
2024 Nvidia only), and arch: reports (AMD/Intel/Nvidia). Useful to
2025 help diagnose driver support issues, shows extra data that can
2026 help diagnose/debug. Adds code: item if found and not the same
2027 as arch:.
2028 inxi -Gaz
2030 Graphics:
2031 Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel
2032 non-free: 173.14.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: kernel: 3.12 xorg: 1.15
2033 release: 173.14.39 arch: Rankine code: NV3x process: 130-150nm
2034 built: 2003-05 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
2035 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 class-ID: 0300
2036 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
2037 unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv,nvidia gpu: nouveau
2038 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
2039 With -y1:
2041 inxi -Gaz -y1
2043 Graphics:
2044 Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
2045 driver: nouveau
2046 v: kernel
2047 non-free:
2048 series: 173.14.xx
2049 status: legacy (EOL)
2050 last:
2051 kernel: 3.12
2052 xorg: 1.15
2053 release: 173.14.39
2054 arch: Rankine
2055 code: NV3x
2056 process: 130-150nm
2057 built: 2003-05
2058 ports:
2059 active: VGA-1
2060 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
2061 bus-ID: 01:00.0
2062 chip-ID: 10de:0322
2063 class-ID: 0300
2064 - Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐
2066 eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
2067 items different from primary shown).
2068 - Adds to Monitors built:, gamma:, ratio: (if found).
2070 X.org sample (with both xdpyinfo and xrandr data available):
2072 inxi -aGz
2073 Graphics:
2074 Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine
2075 driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2
2076 code: Evergreen process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 1
2077 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports:
2078 active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
2079 chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300
2080 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0
2081 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: r600
2082 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
2083 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1024 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x270mm (26.65x10.63")
2084 s-diag: 729mm (28.7")
2085 Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung SyncMaster
2086 serial: <filter> built: 2004 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 96 gamma: 1.2
2087 size: 338x270mm (13.31x10.63") diag: 433mm (17") ratio: 5:4 modes:
2088 max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
2089 Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell 1908FP serial: <filter>
2090 built: 2008 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4
2091 size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.85") diag: 482mm (19") ratio: 5:4 modes:
2092 max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
2093 API: OpenGL renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.16.0-11.1-liquorix-amd64 LLVM
2094 12.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 21.2.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
2095 ....
2096 Wayland sample, with Sway/swaymsg:
2097 inxi -aGz
2098 Graphics:
2099 Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine
2100 driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale 2
2101 process: TSMC 32-40nm pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max:
2102 gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
2103 bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300
2104 Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 21.1.4 compositor: sway v: 1.6.1
2105 driver: gpu: radeon d-rect: 2560x1024
2106 Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: right model: SyncMaster serial: <filter>
2107 built: 2004 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 96 gamma: 1.2
2108 size: 340x270mm (13.4x10.6") diag: 434mm (17.1") ratio: 5:4 modes:
2109 max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
2110 Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: primary,left model: DELL 1908FP serial: <filter>
2111 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 gamma: 1.4 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4
2112 size: 380x300mm (15.0x11.8") diag: 484mm (19.1") ratio: 5:4 modes:
2113 max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
2114 API: GBM/EGL
2115 Message: Wayland GBM/EGL data currently not available.
2116 -a -I - Adds to Packages number of lib packages detected per package
2118 manager. Also adds detected package managers with 0 packages
2119 listed. Adds package manager tools (supported: rpm, dpkg, pkg‐
2120 tool) Moves to Repos if -ra.
2121 inxi -aI
2123 Info:
2124 ....
2125 Init: systemd v: 245 target: graphical.target (5) default: graphical.target
2126 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 5/6/7/8/9 Packages: pm: apt pkgs: 3681 libs: 2096
2127 tools: apt, apt-get,aptitude pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Shell: ksh v: A_2020.0.0
2128 default: Bash v: 5.0.16 running-in: kate inxi: 3.1.04
2129 - Adds service control tool, tested for in the following order:
2131 systemctl rc-service rcctl service sv /etc/rc.d /etc/init.d. Can
2132 be useful to know which you need when using an unfamiliar ma‐
2133 chine.
2134 -a -j, -a -P [swap], -a -P [swap]
2137 - Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indi‐
2138 cate if the value is the default value or not (Linux only, and
2139 only if available). If not the default value, shows default
2140 value as well, e.g.
2141 For -P per swap physical partition:
2143 swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)
2145 For -j row 1 output:
2147 Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default
2149 100)
2150 - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
2152 -a -L - Expands Component report, shows size / maj-min of components
2155 and devices, and mapped name for logical components. Puts each
2156 component/device on its own line.
2157 - Adds maj-min to LV and other devices.
2159 -a -m - Expands volts to include curr/min/max values even if they are
2162 all identical.
2163 -a -n, -a -N, -a -i
2166 - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable
2167 of driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If
2168 no non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because
2169 it lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system,
2170 it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in‐
2171 stead.
2172 - Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐
2174 eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
2175 items different from primary shown).
2176 -a -o - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
2179 -a -p,-a -P
2182 - Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, par‐
2183 tition table, e.g.
2184 raw-size: 60.00 GiB.
2186 - Adds percent of raw size available to size: item, e.g.
2188 size: 58.81 GiB (98.01%).
2190 Note that used: 16.44 GiB (34.3%) percent refers to the avail‐
2192 able size, not the raw size.
2193 - Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root
2195 and blockdev).
2196 - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
2198 -a -r - Adds to Packages: report. See -Ia
2201 -a -R - Adds device kernel major:minor number (mdraid, Linux only).
2204 - Adds, if available, component size, major:minor number (Linux
2206 only). Turns Component report to 1 component per line.
2207 -a -S - Adds kernel boot parameters to Kernel section (if detected).
2210 Support varies by OS type.
2211 -a --slots
2214 - Adds PCI children of the main slot bus ID, and their types and
2215 class IDs, recursively. Linux only, and only if detected. Sam‐
2216 ple:
2217 Slot: 0
2219 type: PCIe
2220 lanes: 16
2221 status: in use
2222 length: long
2223 volts: 3.3
2224 bus-ID: 00:03.1
2225 children:
2226 1: 07:00.0
2227 class-ID: 0300
2228 type: display
2229 2: 07:00.1
2230 class-ID: 0403
2231 type: audio
2232
2235 --alt 40
2236 Bypass Perl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
2237 (HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
2238 --alt 41
2241 Bypass Curl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
2242 (HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
2243 --alt 42
2246 Bypass Fetch as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
2247 (HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
2248 --alt 43
2251 Bypass Wget as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
2252 (HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, OpenBSD only: ftp
2253 --alt 44
2256 Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. This basi‐
2257 cally forces the downloader selection to use Perl 5.x
2258 HTTP::Tiny, which is generally slower than Curl or Wget but it
2259 may help bypass issues with downloading.
2260 --bt-tool [bt-adapter|hciconfig|rfkill]
2263 Force the use of the given tool for bluetooth report (-E).
2264 rfkill does not support mac address data.
2265 --dig Temporary override of NO_DIG configuration item. Only use to
2268 test w/wo dig. Restores default behavior for WAN IP, which is
2269 use dig if present.
2270 --display [:<integer>]
2273 Will try to get display data out of X (does not usually work as
2274 root user). Default gets display info from display :0. If you
2275 use the format --display :1 then it would get it from display 1
2276 instead, or any display you specify.
2277 Note that in some cases, --display will cause inxi to hang end‐
2279 lessly when running the option in console with Intel graphics.
2280 The situation regarding other free drivers such as nouveau/ATI
2281 is currently unknown. It may be that this is a bug with the In‐
2282 tel graphics driver - more information is required.
2283 You can test this easily by running the following command out of
2285 X/display server: glxinfo -display :0
2286 If it hangs, --display will not work.
2288 --dmidecode
2291 Shortcut. See --force dmidecode.
2292 --downloader [curl|fetch|perl|wget]
2295 Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.
2296 --force [option(s)]
2299 Various force options to allow users to override defaults. Val‐
2300 ues can be given as a comma separated list:
2301 inxi -MJ --force dmidecode,lsusb
2303 - colors - Same as -Y -2 . Do not remove colors from piped or
2305 redirected output.
2306 - dmidecode - Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys
2308 data in some lines, e.g. -M or -B.
2309 - hddtemp - Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for
2311 disks.
2312 - lsusb - Forces the USB data generator to use lsusb as data
2314 source (default). Overrides USB_SYS in user configuration
2315 file(s).
2316 - rpm, pkg - Force override of disabled RPM package counts on
2318 primarily RPM run systems due to unacceptably slow execution
2319 times for this command:
2320 rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature
2322 Even on newer RPM systems, in virtual machines, running rpm
2324 package list query takes more than 0.15 seconds (compared to
2325 0.01 to 0.05 for dpkg, pacman, pkgtool etc) for just this single
2326 feature, which is north of 10% of total execution time for inxi
2327 -bar. On bare metal this can hit 1 second or more in our tests.
2328 Older systems have taken up to 30 seconds to run this command!
2329 For systems that support running rpm along with the primary
2331 package installer (dpkg/apt, pacman, and pkgtool/slackpkg),
2332 there are not going to be many rpms, if any, installed, so the
2333 command runs in those cases (if inxi can determine it is running
2334 in that type of system).
2335 - sensors-sys - Force use of /sys/class/hwmon data for sensors
2337 (excluding ipmi sensors, which are their own line if present),
2338 skip lm-sensors. Generally useful for testing since sys data is
2339 used if no lm-sensors data was found anyway, but if lm-sensors
2340 was installed, and returned no data, it's most likely if not
2341 nearly certain that /sys will also not return data.
2342 - usb-sys - Forces the USB data generator to use /sys as data
2344 source instead of lsusb (Linux only).
2345 - vmstat - Forces use of vmstat for memory data.
2347 - wayland - Forces use of Wayland, disables x tools glxinfo,
2349 xrandr, xdpyinfo.
2350 - wmctrl - Force System item wm to use wmctrl as data source,
2352 override default ps source.
2353 --hddtemp
2356 Shortcut. See --force hddtemp.
2357 --html-wan
2360 Temporary override of NO_HTML_WAN configuration item. Only use
2361 to test w/wo HTML downloaders for WAN IP. Restores default be‐
2362 havior for WAN IP, which is use HTML downloader if present and
2363 if dig failed.
2364 --man Updates / installs man page with -U if pinxi or using -U 3 dev
2367 branch. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by maintainers).
2368 --no-dig
2371 Overrides default use of dig to get WAN IP address. Allows use
2372 of normal downloader tool to get IP addresses. Only use if dig
2373 is failing, since dig is much faster and more reliable in gen‐
2374 eral than other methods.
2375 --no-doas
2378 Skips the use of doas to run certain internal features (like hd‐
2379 dtemp, file) with doas. Not related to running inxi itself with
2380 doas/sudo or super user. Some systems will register errors which
2381 will then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if you want to
2382 disable regular user use of doas (which requires configuration
2383 to setup anyway for these options) just use this option, or
2384 NO_DOAS configuration item. See --no-sudo if you need to disable
2385 both types.
2386 --no-html-wan
2389 Overrides use of HTML downloaders to get WAN IP address. Use ei‐
2390 ther only dig, or do not get wan IP. Only use if dig is failing,
2391 and the HTML downloaders are taking too long, or are hanging or
2392 failing.
2393 Make permanent with NO_HTML_WAN='true'
2395 --no-man
2398 Disables man page install with -U for master and active develop‐
2399 ment branches. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by main‐
2400 tainers).
2401 --no-sensor-force
2404 Overrides user set SENSOR_FORCE configuration value. Restores
2405 default behavior.
2406 --no-ssl
2409 Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (-U, -w,
2410 -W, -i). Use if your system does not have current SSL certifi‐
2411 cate lists, or if you have problems making a connection for any
2412 reason. Works with Wget, Curl, Perl HTTP::Tiny and Fetch.
2413 --no-sudo
2416 Skips the use of sudo to run certain internal features (like hd‐
2417 dtemp, file) with sudo. Not related to running inxi itself with
2418 sudo or superuser. Some systems will register errors which will
2419 then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if you want to dis‐
2420 able regular user use of sudo (which requires configuration to
2421 setup anyway for these options) just use this option, or NO_SUDO
2422 configuration item.
2423 --pm-type [package manager name]
2426 For distro package maintainers only, and only for non apt, rpm,
2427 or pacman based systems. To be used to test replacement package
2428 lists for recommends for that package manager.
2429 --rpm, --pkg
2432 Shortcut. See --force rpm.
2433 --sensors-default
2436 Overrides configuration values SENSORS_USE or SENSORS_EXCLUDE on
2437 a one time basis.
2438 --sensors-exclude
2441 Linux only. Similar to --sensors-use except removes listed sen‐
2442 sors from sensor data. Make permanent with SENSORS_EXCLUDE con‐
2443 figuration item. Note that gpu, network, disk, and other spe‐
2444 cific device monitor chips are excluded by default.
2445 Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-exclude k10temp-pci-00c3
2447 --sensors-sys
2450 Shortcut. See --force sensors-sys
2451 --sensors-use
2454 Linux only. Use only the (comma separated) sensor arrays for -s
2455 output. Make permanent with SENSORS_USE configuration item.
2456 Sensor array ID value must be the exact value shown in lm-sen‐
2457 sors sensors output (lm-sensors only) or use -s --dbg 18 ('main'
2458 =>.. section) to see the sensor ID strings used internally. If
2459 you only want to exclude one (or more) sensors from the output,
2460 use --sensors-exclude.
2461 Can be useful if the default sensor data used by inxi is not
2463 from the right sensor array. Note that all other sensor data
2464 will be removed, which may lead to undesired consequences.
2465 Please be aware that this can lead to many undesirable side-ef‐
2466 fects, since default behavior is to use all the sensors arrays
2467 and select which values to use from them following a set se‐
2468 quence of rules. So if you force one to be used, you may lose
2469 data that was used from another one.
2470 Most likely best use is when one (or two) of the sensor arrays
2472 has all the sensor data you want, and you just want to make sure
2473 inxi doesn't use data from another array that has inaccurate or
2474 misleading data.
2475 Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific device monitor
2477 chips are excluded by default, and should not be added since
2478 they do not provide cpu, board, system, etc, sensor data.
2479 Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-use nct6791-isa-0290,k10temp-
2481 pci-00c3
2482 --sleep [0-x.x]
2485 Usually in decimals. Change CPU sleep time for -C (current:
2486 .35). Sleep is used to let the system catch up and show a more
2487 accurate CPU use. Example:
2488 inxi -Cxxx --sleep 0.15
2490 Overrides default internal value and user configuration value:
2492 CPU_SLEEP=0.25
2494 --tty Forces internal IRC flag to off. Used in unhandled cases where
2497 the program running inxi may not be seen as a shell/pty/tty, but
2498 it is not an IRC client. Put --tty first in option list to
2499 avoid unexpected errors. If you want a specific output width,
2500 use the --width option. If you want normal color codes in the
2501 output, use the -c [color ID] flag.
2502 The sign you need to use this is extra numbers before the
2504 key/value pairs of the output of your program. These are IRC,
2505 not TTY, color codes. Please post a github issue if you find you
2506 need to use --tty (including the full -Ixxx line) so we can fig‐
2507 ure out how to add your program to the list of whitelisted pro‐
2508 grams.
2509 You can see what inxi believed started it in the -Ixxx line,
2511 Shell: or Client: item. Please let us know what that result was
2512 so we can add it to the parent start program whitelist.
2513 In some cases, you may want to also use --no-filter/-Z option if
2515 you want to see filtered values. Filtering is turned on by de‐
2516 fault if inxi believes it is running in an IRC client.
2517 --usb-sys
2520 Shortcut. See --force usb-sys
2521 --usb-tool
2524 Shortcut. See --force lsusb
2525 --wan-ip-url [URL]
2528 Force -i to use supplied URL as WAN IP source. Overrides dig or
2529 default IP source urls. URL must start with http[s] or ftp.
2530 The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last
2532 (non-empty) line of the page content source code.
2533 Same as configuration value (example):
2535 WAN_IP_URL='https://mysite.com/ip.php'
2537 --wayland, --wl
2540 Shortcut. See --force wayland.
2541 --wm Shortcut. See --force wmctl.
2544
2547 --dbg {[1-x][,[1-x]]}
2548 Accepts one or more comma separated dbg specific debugging num‐
2549 bers.
2550 1 - Debug downloader failures. Turns off silent/quiet mode for
2552 curl, wget, and fetch. Shows more downloader action information.
2553 Shows some more information for Perl downloader.
2554 1-xx - See github inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt for specific
2556 specialized debugging options. There are a lot.
2557 --debug [1-3]
2560 - On screen debugger output.
2561 --debug 10
2564 - Basic logging. Check $XDG_DATA_HOME/inxi/inxi.log or
2565 $HOME/.local/share/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.inxi/inxi.log.
2566 --debug 11
2569 - Full file/system info logging.
2570 --debug 20
2573 Creates a tar.gz file of system data and collects the inxi out‐
2574 put in a file.
2575 * tree traversal data file(s) read from /proc and /sys, and
2577 other system data.
2578 * xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.
2580 * data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.
2582 --debug 21
2585 Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,
2586 then removes the debug data directory, but leaves the debug
2587 tar.gz file. See --ftp for uploading to alternate locations.
2588 --debug 22
2591 Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,
2592 then removes the debug data directory and the tar.gz file. See
2593 --ftp for uploading to alternate locations.
2594 --fake-data-dir
2597 Developer only: Change default location of $fake_data_dir, which
2598 is where files are for --fake {item} items.
2599 --ftp [ftp.yoursite.com/incoming]
2602 For alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
2603 inxi --ftp ftp.yourserver.com/incoming --debug 21
2605
2608 Only use the following in conjunction with --debug 2[012], and only use
2609 if you experienced a failure or hang, or were instructed to do so.
2610 --debug-proc
2613 Force debugger to parse /proc directory data when run as root.
2614 Normally this is disabled due to unpredictable data in /proc
2615 tree.
2616 --debug-proc-print
2619 Use this to locate file that /proc debugger hangs on.
2620 --debug-no-exit
2623 Skip exit on error when running debugger.
2624 --debug-no-proc
2627 Skip /proc debugging in case of a hang.
2628 --debug-no-sys
2631 Skip /sys debugging in case of a hang.
2632 --debug-sys
2635 Force PowerPC debugger parsing of /sys as doas/sudo/root.
2636 --debug-sys-print
2639 Use this to locate file that /sys debugger hangs on.
2640
2643 BitchX, Gaim/Pidgin, ircII, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KSirc, KVIrc,
2644 Weechat, and Xchat. Plus any others that are capable of displaying ei‐
2645 ther built-in or external script output.
2646
2649 To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method
2650 from the list below:
2651 Hexchat, XChat, Irssi
2653 (and many other IRC clients) /exec -o inxi [options] If you
2654 don't include the -o, only you will see the output on your local
2655 IRC client.
2656 Konversation
2658 /cmd inxi [options]
2659 To run inxi in Konversation as a native script if your distribu‐
2661 tion or inxi package hasn't already done this for you, create
2662 this symbolic link:
2663 KDE 4: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversa‐
2665 tion/scripts/inxi
2666 KDE 5: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/konversa‐
2668 tion/scripts/inxi
2669 If inxi is somewhere else, change the path /usr/local/bin to
2671 wherever it is located.
2672 If you are using KDE/QT 5, then you may also need to add the
2674 following to get the Konversation /inxi command to work:
2675 ln -s /usr/share/konversation /usr/share/apps/
2677 Make sure you also have the qdbus-qt5 package (Debian/Ubuntu +
2679 derived), qt5-qttools (Fedora/RHEL/SUSE + derived), qt5-tools
2680 (Arch + derived) installed (for KDE 5/QT 5, check distros for
2681 future package names), qt5-tools (Arch + derived). Check your
2682 distro if the program is missing. Depending on the distro,
2683 /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus is required, which in Debian+ is provided
2684 by the above package.
2685 Then you can start inxi directly, like this:
2687 /inxi [options]
2689 WeeChat
2691 NEW: /exec -o inxi [options]
2692 OLD: /shell -o inxi [options]
2694 Newer (2014 and later) WeeChats work pretty much the same now as
2696 other console IRC clients, with /exec -o inxi [options]. Newer
2697 WeeChats have dropped the -curses part of their program name,
2698 i.e.: weechat instead of weechat-curses.
2699
2702 inxi will read its configuration/initialization files in the following
2703 order:
2704 /etc/inxi.conf contains the default configurations. These can be over‐
2706 ridden by creating a /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf file (global override, which
2707 will prevent distro packages from changing or overwriting your edits.
2708 This method is recommended if you are using a distro packaged inxi and
2709 want to override some configuration items from the package's default
2710 /etc/inxi.conf file but don't want to lose your changes on a package
2711 update.
2712 You can old override, per user, with a user configuration file found in
2714 one of the following locations (inxi will store its config file using
2715 the following precedence:
2716 if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if
2718 $HOME/.conf/inxi.conf exists, it will go there, and as a last default,
2719 the legacy location is used), i.e.:
2720 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inxi.conf > $HOME/.conf/inxi.conf >
2722 $HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf
2723
2726 See the documentation page for more complete information on how to set
2727 these up, and for a complete list of options:
2728 https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm
2730 Basic Options
2732 Here's a brief overview of the basic options you are likely to
2733 want to use:
2734 COLS_MAX_CONSOLE The max display column width on terminal. If
2736 terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width, wrap‐
2737 ping of line starter occurs
2738 COLS_MAX_IRC The max display column width on IRC clients.
2740 COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY The max display column width in out of X /
2742 Wayland / desktop / window manager.
2743 CPU_SLEEP Decimal value 0 or more. Default is usually around
2745 0.35 seconds. Time that inxi will 'sleep' before getting CPU
2746 speed data, so that it reflects actual system state.
2747 DOWNLOADER Sets default inxi downloader: curl, fetch, ftp, perl,
2749 wget. See --recommends output for more information on download‐
2750 ers and Perl downloaders.
2751 FILTER_STRING Default <filter>. Any string you prefer to see in‐
2753 stead for filtered values.
2754 INDENT Change primary indent width of wide mode output. See
2756 --indent.
2757 INDENTS Change primary indents of narrow wrapped mode output,
2759 and second level indents. See --indents.
2760 LIMIT Overrides default of 10 IP addresses per IF. This is only
2762 of interest to sys admins running servers with many IP ad‐
2763 dresses.
2764 LINES_MAX Values: [-2-xxx]. See -Y for explanation and values.
2766 Use -Y -3 to restore default unlimited output lines. Avoid using
2767 this in general unless the machine is a headless system and you
2768 want the output to be always controlled.
2769 MAX_WRAP (or WRAP_MAX) The maximum width where the line starter
2771 wraps to its own line. If terminal/console width or --width is
2772 less than wrap width, wrapping of line starter occurs. Overrides
2773 default. See --max-wrap. If 80 or less, wrap will never happen.
2774 NO_DIG Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of dig and force
2776 use of alternate downloaders.
2777 NO_DOAS Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of doas.
2779 NO_HTML_WAN Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of HTML Down‐
2781 loaders and force use of dig only, or nothing if dig disabled as
2782 well. Same as --no-html-wan. Only use if dig is failing, and
2783 HTML downloaders are hanging.
2784 NO_SUDO Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of sudo.
2786 PARTITION_SORT Overrides default partition output sort. See
2788 --partition-sort for options.
2789 PS_COUNT The default number of items showing per -t type, m or
2791 c. Default is 5.
2792 SENSORS_CPU_NO In cases of ambiguous temp1/temp2 (inxi can't
2794 figure out which is the CPU), forces sensors to use either value
2795 1 or 2 as CPU temperature. See the above configuration page on
2796 smxi.org for full info.
2797 SENSORS_EXCLUDE Exclude supplied sensor array[s] from sensor
2799 output. Override with --sensors-default. See --sensors-exclude.
2800 SENSORS_USE Use only supplied sensor array[s]. Override with
2802 --sensors-default. See --sensors-use.
2803 SEP2_CONSOLE Replaces default key / value separator of ':'.
2805 USB_SYS Forces all USB data to use /sys instead of lsusb.
2807 WAN_IP_URL Forces -i to use supplied URL, and to not use dig
2809 (dig is generally much faster). URL must begin with http or ftp.
2810 Note that if you use this, the downloader set tests will run
2811 each time you start inxi whether a downloader feature is going
2812 to be used or not.
2813 The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last
2815 (non-empty) line of the URL's page content source code.
2816 Same as --wan-ip-url [URL]
2818 WEATHER_SOURCE Values: [0-9]. Same as --weather-source. Values
2820 4-9 are not currently supported, but this can change at any
2821 time.
2822 WEATHER_UNIT Values: [m|i|mi|im]. Same as --weather-unit.
2824 Color Options
2827 It's best to use the -c [94-99] color selector tool to set the
2828 following values because it will correctly update the configura‐
2829 tion file and remove any invalid or conflicting items, but if
2830 you prefer to create your own configuration files, here are the
2831 options. All take the integer value from the options available
2832 in -c 94-99.
2833 NOTE: All default and configuration file set color values are
2835 removed when output is piped or redirected. You must use the ex‐
2836 plicit -c <color number> option if you want colors to be present
2837 in the piped/redirected output (creating a PDF for example).
2838 CONSOLE_COLOR_SCHEME The color scheme for console output (not in
2840 X/Wayland).
2841 GLOBAL_COLOR_SCHEME Overrides all other color schemes.
2843 IRC_COLOR_SCHEME Desktop X/Wayland IRC CLI color scheme.
2845 IRC_CONS_COLOR_SCHEME Out of X/Wayland, IRC CLI color scheme.
2847 IRC_X_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME In X/Wayland IRC client terminal color
2849 scheme.
2850 VIRT_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME Color scheme for virtual terminal output
2852 (in X/Wayland).
2853 Developer Options
2856 These are useful only for developers.
2857 FAKE_DATA_DIR - change default fake data directory location. See
2859 --fake-data-dir.
2860
2863 Please report bugs using the following resources.
2864 You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool (see --debug 21/22),
2866 which will upload a data dump of system files for use in debugging
2867 inxi. These data dumps are very important since they provide us with
2868 all the real system data inxi uses to parse out its report.
2869 Issue Report
2871 File an issue report: https://github.com/smxi/inxi/issues
2872 Forums Post on inxi forums: https://techpatterns.com/forums/fo‐
2874 rum-33.html
2875 IRC irc.oftc.net / irc.libera.chat
2877 You can also visit channel: #smxi to post issues on either net‐
2878 work.
2879
2882 https://github.com/smxi/inxi - Home of the source code, and tech docs
2883 (inxi-perl/docs).
2884 https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm - The main docs for inxi. See
2886 inxi-perl/docs for more technical docs.
2887 https://fosstodon.org/@smxi - Follow @smxi on Mastodon!
2889
2892 inxi is a fork of locsmif's very clever infobash script.
2893 Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007
2895 Michiel de Boer aka locsmif
2896 inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-2021 Harald Hope
2898 This man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and
2900 is maintained by Harald Hope (aka h2 or TechAdmin).
2901 Initial CPU logic, konversation version logic, occasional maintenance
2903 fixes, and the initial xiin.py tool for /sys parsing (obsolete, but
2904 still very much appreciated for all the valuable debugger data it
2905 helped generate): Scott Rogers
2906 Further fixes (listed as known):
2908 Horst Tritremmel <hjt at sidux.com>
2910 Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - USB audio patch; swap percent used
2912 patch.
2913 Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode -M patch for older systems with no /sys.
2915
2918 The nice people at irc.oftc.net channels #linux-smokers-club and #smxi,
2919 who all really have to be considered to be co-developers because of
2920 their non-stop enthusiasm and willingness to provide real-time testing
2921 and debugging of inxi development over the years.
2922 LinuxQuestions.org Slackware forum members, for major help with devel‐
2924 opment and debugging new or refactored features, particularly the re‐
2925 done CPU logic of 2021-12.
2926 Siduction forum members, who have helped get some features working by
2928 providing a large number of datasets that have revealed possible varia‐
2929 tions, particularly for the RAM -m option.
2930 AntiX users and admins, who have helped greatly with testing and debug‐
2932 ging, particularly for the 3.0.0 release.
2933 ArcherSeven (Max), Brett Bohnenkamper (aka KittyKatt), and Iotaka, who
2935 always manage to find the weirdest or most extreme hardware and setups
2936 that help make inxi much more robust.
2937 For the vastly underrated skill of output error/glitch catching, Pete
2939 Haddow. His patience and focus in going through inxi repeatedly to
2940 find errors and inconsistencies is much appreciated.
2941 For a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of test‐
2943 ing and setup many remote access systems for testing and development.
2944 For testing, bug finding, suggestions, feature requests, MrMazda. He
2946 has over the years has helped shape inxi into what it is today, in par‐
2947 ticular but not limited to, the Graphics features.
2948 All the inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum modera‐
2950 tors, and in particular, sys admins with their particular issues, which
2951 almost always help make inxi better, and any others who contribute
2952 ideas, suggestions, and patches.
2953 Without a wide range of diverse Linux kernel-based Free Desktop systems
2955 to test on, we could never have gotten inxi to be as reliable and solid
2956 as it's turning out to be.
2957 And of course, a big thanks to locsmif, who figured out a lot of the
2959 core ideas, logic, and tricks originally used in inxi Gawk/Bash.
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