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NAME
inxi - Command line system information tool for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi
inxi [-AbBCdDeEfGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUwyYzZ]
inxi [-c āNUMBER] [--sensors-exclude SENSORS] [--sensors-use SENSORS]
[-t [c|m|cm|mc][NUMBER]] [-v NUMBER] [-w [LOCATION]] [--weather-unit
{m|i|mi|im}] [-y WIDTH]
inxi [--edid] [--memory-modules] [--memory-short] [--recommends] [--senā
sors-default] [--slots] [--version] [--version-short]
inxi [-x|-xx|-xxx|-a] -OPTION(s)
All short form options have long form variants - see below for these and
more advanced options.
DESCRIPTION
inxi is a command line system information tool built for console and
IRC. It is also used as a debugging tool for forum technical support to
quickly ascertain usersā system configurations and hardware. inxi shows
system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, compiler verā
sion(s), Processes, RAM usage, and a wide variety of other useful inforā
mation.
inxi output varies depending on whether it is being used on CLI or IRC,
with some default filters and color options applied only for IRC use.
Colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or changed using the -c
color options listed in the STANDARD OPTIONS section below.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi used on IRC autoā
matically filters out your network device MAC address, WAN and LAN IP,
your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other items.
Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger
this filtering with the -z option (-ez, for example). To override the
IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful in debugging
network connection issues online in a private chat, for example.
See FILTER OPTIONS for all filters. If you want to filter everything,
use --za though thatās usually overkill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
This man page is pretty long and information packed. It is divided into
the following sections:
* USING OPTIONS How to use the command line options.
* STANDARD OPTIONS Primary data types trigger items.
* FILTER OPTIONS Apply a variety of output filters.
* OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS Change default colors, widths, heights, output
types, etc.
* EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -x, -xx, and -xxx add to the report per priā
mary data type.
* ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -a adds to the report per primary data
type. These have a lot of information because this is advanced admin
data, which are not always intuitive or easy to understand.
* ADVANCED OPTIONS Modify behavior or choice of data sources, and other
advanced switches.
* DEBUGGING OPTIONS For development use mainly, or contributing datasets
to the project.
* DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES Only for advanced users,
sometimes something will hang the debuggers, this shows you various ways
to get around those failures.
* SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS List of known good IRC clients. Not checked ofā
ten, let us know if something is not working.
* RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT How to run inxi in various IRC clients.
* CONFIGURATION FILE Configuration file locations and priority in using.
* CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Most of the commonly used configuration options,
along with sample values.
* BUGS How and where to report bugs.
* HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLā
LOWING These are self explanitory.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. You can either group
the letters together or separate them.
Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion, except
when using -t. Note that if you use an option that requires an addiā
tional argument, that must be last in the short form group of options.
Otherwise you can use those separately as well.
For example: inxi -AG | inxi -A -G | inxi -b | inxi -c10 | inxi
Note that all the short form options have long form equivalents, which
are listed below. However, usually the short form is used in examples in
order to keep things simple.
STANDARD OPTIONS
Show Audio/sound device(s) information, including device driver.
Shows active sound API(s) and sound server(s).
Supported APIs: ALSA, OSS, sndio. Supported servers: aRts
(artsd), Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound, esd), JACK, NAS (Netā
work Audio System, nasd), PipeWire, PulseAudio, RoarAudio,
sndiod.
Use -Ax to show all sound APIs/servers detected, including inacā
tive, -Axx to see API/Server helper daemons/plugin/modules, and
to see API/sound server tools.
Audio:
Device-1: CāMedia CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] driver: snd_virtuoso
Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k5.19.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Show basic report with the following items: System (-S); Machine
(-M); Battery (-B) (if available); basic CPU (cores, type, averā
age clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available); Graphics
(-G); Networking devices (-N); basic Disk; Info (-I).
The CPU and Disk short forms are special, and are only used in
To see their full forms, add -C or -D.
Same as: inxi -v 2
For expanded -b report, see -e/--expanded.
Show system battery (ID-x) data, charge, condition, plus extra
information (if battery present). Uses /sys or, for BSDs without
systctl battery data, use --dmidecode to force its use. dmidecode
does not have very much information, and none about current batā
tery state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when using
/sys or sysctl data.
Note that for charge:, the report shows the current charge, as
well as its value as a percentage of the available capacity,
which can be less than the original design capacity. In the folā
lowing example, the actual current available capacity of the batā
tery is 22.2 Wh.
charge: 20.1 Wh (95.4%)
If charge percent > 100, adds note: check. The causes from that
can range from driver bugs, hardware bugs, odd behaviors, so
thereās no way to know why.
The condition: item shows the remaining available capacity /
original design capacity, and then this figure as a percentage of
original capacity available in the battery.
condition: 22.2/36.4 Wh (61%)
Corner cases of failing battery show < 1 Wh and percent values
for charge, capacity, and condition, and an alert.
condition: 0.01/62.6 Wh (0.02%) alert: bad battery?
If health item is available and if it is not āgoodā, shows
health: value. Always shows with -x if present.
With -x, or if voltage difference is critical, volts: item shows
the current voltage, and the min: voltage. Note that if the curā
rent is below the minimum listed the battery is essentially dead
and will not charge. Test that to confirm, but thatās techniā
cally how itās supposed to work.
volts: 12.0 min: 11.4
With -x shows attached Device-x information (mouse, keyboard,
etc.) if they are battery powered.
See -E.
See OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS.
Show active configuration values, by file, and exit.
Show full CPU report (if each item available): basic CPU topolā
ogy, model, type, L2 cache, average speed of all cores (if > 1
core, otherwise speed of the core), min/max speeds for CPU, and
per CPU clock speed. More data available with -x, -xxx, and -a
options.
Explanation of CPU type (type: MT MCP) abbreviations:
* AMCP - Asymmetric Multi Core Processor. More than 1 core per
CPU, and more than one core type (single and multithreaded cores
in the same CPU).
* AMP - Asymmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU,
but not identical in terms of core counts or min/max speeds).
* MT - Multi/Hyper Threaded CPU (more than 1 thread per core,
previously HT).
* MST - Multi and Single Threaded CPU (a CPU with both Single and
Multi Threaded cores).
* MCM - Multi Chip Model (more than 1 die per CPU).
* MCP - Multi Core Processor (more than 1 core per CPU).
* SMP - Symmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU).
* UP - Uni (single core) Processor.
Note that min/max: speeds are not necessarily true in cases of
overclocked CPUs or CPUs in turbo/boost mode. See -Ca for alterā
nate base/boost: speed data, more granular cache data, and more.
Sample:
CPU:
Info: 2x 8-core model: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP SMP
cache: L2: 2x 2 MiB (4 MiB)
Speed (MHz): avg: 1601 min/max: 1200/3000 cores: 1: 1280 2: 1595 3: 1416
... 32: 1634
Show optical drive data as well as -D HDD/SSD drive data. With
adds a feature line to the report. Also shows floppy disks if
present. Note that there is no current way to get any information
about the floppy device that we are aware of, so it will simply
show the floppy ID without any extra data. -xx adds a few more
features.
Show HDD/SSD drive info. Shows total drive space and used perā
centage. The drive used percentage includes space used by swap
partition(s), since those are not usable for data storage. Also,
unmounted partitions are not counted in drive use percentages
since inxi has no access to the used amount.
If the system has RAID or other logical storage, and if inxi can
determine the size of those vs their components, you will see the
storage total raw and usable sizes, plus the percent used of the
usable size. The no argument short form of inxi will show only
the usable (or total if no usable) and used percent. If there is
no logical storage detected, only total: and used: will show.
Sample (with RAID logical size calculated):
Local Storage: total: raw: 5.49 TiB usable: 2.80 TiB used: 1.35
TiB (48.3%)
Without logical storage detected:
Local Storage: total: 2.89 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (52.3%)
Also shows per drive information: Disk ID, type (FireWire, Removā
able, USB if present), vendor (if detected), model, and size. See
Extra Data Options (-x options) and Admin Extra Data Options
(--admin options) for many more features.
Show expanded -b report. Includes all Upper Case options (except
plus --swap, -s and -n. Does not show extra verbose options
such as -d -f -i āJ -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x unless you use those
arguments in the command, e.g.: inxi -ermxx
The basic CPU line is expanded to full CPU data (-C); the basic
disk information line is expanded to full drive information (-D)
plus primary system partition data (-P), along with adding, if
found, RAID (-R) and Logical (-L) items; the Network line (-N) is
expanded to advanced network (-n).
Note that with -e, to avoid clutter, -B, -E, -L, and -R only show
if results are found since those are often not relevant.
For basic report, see -b/--basic.
The previous -F/--full are deprecated because the expanded report
has not been full for a long time.
Show bluetooth device(s), drivers. Show Report: with HCI ID,
state, address per device (requires btmgmt, bt-adapter, or hciā
config), and if available (hciconfig, btmgmt only) bluetooth verā
sion (bt-v). See Extra Data Options for more.
If bluetooth shows as status: down, shows bt-service: state and
rfkill software and hardware blocked states, and rfkill ID.
Note that Report-ID: indicates that the HCI item was not able to
be linked to a specific device, similar to IF-ID: in -n.
If your internal bluetooth device does not show, itās possible
that it has been disabled, if you try enabling it using for examā
ple:
hciconfig hci0 up
and it returns a blocked by RF-Kill error, you can do one of
these:
connmanctl enable bluetooth
or
rfkill list bluetooth
rfkill unblock bluetooth
Triggers full EDID data in Graphics, activates -G and -a.
- Adds monitor chromacity (chroma:
red:..green:...blue:...white:).
- Shows all available monitor modes if > 2 present, in comma sepā
arated list.
- Shows EDID errors and warnings if any present.
See FILTER OPTIONS.
Show all CPU flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with
in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show features items.
Deprecated. See -e/--expanded.
Show Graphic device(s) information, including details of device
and display drivers (X: loaded:, and, if applicable: unloaded:,
failed:, dri: (if X and different from loaded X drivers) drivers,
and active gpu: drivers), display protocol (if available), disā
play server (and/or Wayland compositor), vendor and version numā
ber, e.g.:
Display: x11 server: Xorg v: 1.15.1
or:
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.1 with: Xwayland v: 20.1
If protocol is not detected, shows:
Display: server: Xorg 1.15.1
Adds with: Xwayland v:... if xwayland server is installed, reā
gardless of protocol.
Also shows screen resolution(s) (per monitor/X screen). Shows
graphics API information (if available). EGL: EGL version, driā
vers, acdtive platforms; OpenGL: renderer, OpenGL core profile
version/OpenGL version (if core/compat versions different, shows
that as well); Vulkan: Vulkan version, drivers, surfaces;VESA:
data (for Xvesa).
Compositor information will show if detected using -xx option or
always if detected and Wayland since the compositor is the server
with Wayland.
shows monitor data as well, if detected. --edid shows adā
vanced monitor data (full modes, chroma, etc.).
The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal winā
dow. Set global COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a different default
value, or use -y [width] to temporarily override the defaults or
actual window width.
Show WAN IP address and local interfaces (latter requires ifconā
fig or ip network tool), as well as network report from -n. Not
shown with -e for user security reasons. You shouldnāt paste your
local/WAN IP. Shows both IPv4 and IPv6 link IP addresses.
Raise or lower max report limit of IP addresses for -i. -1 reā
moves limit.
Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, IRC client (or shell
type if run in shell, not IRC), inxi version. See -Ix, -Ixx, and
for extra information (init type/version, runlevel/target,
packages).
Note: if -m or -tm are active, the memory item will show in the
main Memory: report of -m/-tm/, not in Info:.
See -m for explanation of Memory: fields and values..
Shows all active swap types (partition, file, zram). When this
option is used, swap partition(s) will not show on the -P line to
avoid redundancy.
To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
use with -l or -u.
Show USB data for attached Hubs and Devices. Hubs also show numā
ber of ports. Be aware that a port is not always external, some
may be internal, and either used or unused (for example, a mothā
erboard USB header connector that is not used).
Hubs and Devices are listed in order of BusID.
BusID is generally in this format: BusID-port[.port][.port]:Deviā
ceID
Device ID is a number created by the kernel, and has no necessary
ordering or sequence connection, but can be used to match this
output to lsusb values, which generally shows BusID / DeviceID
(except for tree view, which shows ports).
Examples: Device-3: 4-3.2.1:2 or Hub: 4-0:1
The rev: 2.0 item refers to the USB revision number, like 1.0 or
3.1.
Use -Jx for basic Si base 10 bits/s speed, -Jxx for Si and IEC
base 2 Bytes/s speeds. -Ja adds USB mode.
Show partition labels. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show partiā
tion labels. Requires one of those options.
Sample: -ojpl.
Show Logical volume information, for LVM, LUKS, bcache, etc.
Shows size, free space (for LVM VG). For LVM, shows Device-[xx]:
VG: (Volume Group) size/free, LV-[xx] (Logical Volume). LV shows
type, size, and components. Note that components are made up of
either containers (aka, logical devices), or physical devices.
The full report requires doas/sudo/root.
Logical block devices can be thought of as devices that are made
up out of either other logical devices, or physical devices. inxi
does its best to show what each logical device is made out of.
RAID devices form a subset of all possible Logical devices, but
have their own section, -R.
If -R is used with -Lxx, -Lxx will not show RAID information for
LVM RAID devices since itās redundant. If -R is not used, a simā
ple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in -Lxx.
also shows all components and devices. Note that since comā
ponents can go in many levels, each level per primary component
is indicated by either another ācā, or ends with a āpā device,
the physical device. The number of cās or pās indicates the
depth, so you can see which component belongs to which.
shows only the top level components/devices (like -R). -La
shows component/device size, maj:min ID, mapped name (if applicaā
ble), and puts each component/device on its own line.
Sample:
Device-10: mybackup type: LUKS dm: dm-28 size: 6.36 GiB Components:
c-1: md1 cc-1: dm-26 ppp-1: sdj2 cc-2: dm-27 ppp-1: sdk2
LV-5: lvm_raid1 type: raid1 dm: dm-16 size: 4.88 GiB
RAID: stripes: 2 sync: idle copied: 100% mismatches: 0
Components: c-1: dm-10 pp-1: sdd1 c-2: dm-11 pp-1: sdd1 c-3: dm-13
pp-1: sde1 c-4: dm-15 pp-1: sde1
It is easier to follow the flow of components and devices using
In this example, there is one primary component (c-1), md1,
which is made up of two components (cc-1,2), dm-26 and dm-27.
These are respectively made from physical devices (p-1) sdj2 and
sdk2.
Device-10: mybackup
maj-min: 254:28
type: LUKS
dm: dm-28
size: 6.36 GiB
Components:
c-1: md1
maj-min: 9:1
size: 6.37 GiB
cc-1: dm-26
maj-min: 254:26
mapped: vg5-level1a
size: 12.28 GiB
ppp-1: sdj2
maj-min: 8:146
size: 12.79 GiB
cc-2: dm-27
maj-min: 254:27
mapped: vg5-level1b
size: 6.38 GiB
ppp-1: sdk2
maj-min: 8:162
size: 12.79 GiB
Other types of logical block handling like LUKS, bcache show as:
Device-[xx] [name/id] type: [LUKS|Crypto|bcache]:
Memory (RAM) data. Does not display with -b or -e unless you use
explicitly. Ordered by system board physical system memory arā
ray(s) (Array-[number]), and individual memory devices (Deā
vice-[number]). Physical memory array data shows array capacity,
number of devices supported, and Error Correction information.
Devices shows locator data (highly variable in syntax), type (eg:
type: DDR3)size, speed.
Note: inxi -m uses either dboot (BSDs), dmidecode, or udevadm
(Linux) to collect the RAM data. Not all boards have DMI RAM data
available.
dmidecode must be run as root (or start inxi with doas/sudo), unā
less you figure out how to set up doas/sudo to permit dmidecode
to read /dev/mem as user.
udevadm can be run by non-superuser, or if dmidecode is not inā
stalled (Linux only). It has a slightly less reliable dmi table
report, and does not seem to support more than 1 board memory arā
ray, but is pretty good. Voltages may be wrong however.
Both dmidecode and udevadm need a DMI table with RAM data to creā
ate the report. Most SBC/SOC boards donāt have dmi based RAM
data. But most other machines do.
speed and bus-width will not show if no module installed is found
in size.
Note: If -m is triggered RAM available/used report will appear in
this section, not in -I or -tm items.
Because dmi source data is somewhat unreliable, inxi will try to
make best guesses. If you see (check) after the capacity number,
you should check it with the specifications. (est) is slightly
more reliable, but you should still check the real specifications
before buying RAM. Unfortunately there is nothing inxi can do to
get truly reliable data about the system RAM; maybe one day the
kernel devs will put this data into /sys, and make it real data,
taken from the actual system, not dmi data. For most people, the
data will be right, but a significant percentage of users will
have either a wrong max module size, if available, or max capacā
ity.
Under dmidecode/udevadm, speed: is the expected speed of the memā
ory (spec:, what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and acā
tual:, what the actual speed is now. To handle this, if speed and
configured speed values are different, you will see this instead:
speed: spec: [specified speed] MT/s actual: [actual] MT/s
Also, if DDR, and speed in MHz, will change to: speed: [speed]
MT/s ([speed] MHz)
If the detected speed is logically absurd, like 1 MT/s or 69910
MT/s, adds: note: check. Sample:
Memory:
System RAM: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.38 GiB
used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check
See --memory-modules and --memory-short if you want a shorter reā
port.
Notes on System RAM: / Memory: report item:
* total: and igpu: do not show for short form.
* The total: can come from several possible sources:
- If not superuser, and if /sys/devices/system/memory exists, it
will estimate the total RAM based on how many RAM blocks and
their size. Sometimes the block count is not an exact match to
installed RAM, and inxi will attempt to guess the actual RAM
amount, except for virtual machines. When it synthesizes the acā
tual physical RAM total, it will show note: est..
Note that not all kernels are compiled to support generating this
/sys directory (kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MEMā
ORY_HOTPLUG).
- For OpenBSD and not superuser, the total comes from the deā
tected RAM in dboot, if available.
- If superuser, and if -m used, it comes from the dmidecode RAM
totals if available, and if not, it comes from counting up the
System RAM ranges in /proc/iomem (Linux only), then rounding up,
since that total is usually slightly under the actual physical
RAM total. If inxi is unsure about the total, it will show note:
est..
If no total data found, shows total: N/A.
* The available: item is the total installed RAM minus some reā
served and kernel code RAM (and in some cases iGPU assigned main
system RAM) that is allocated on system boot, and thus is generā
ally less than the actual physical RAM installed. This is called
MemTotal in free/meminfo even though it isnāt, though it is the
total available the kernel has to work with.
* The used: is the percent of the available RAM used, NOT of the
total physical RAM.
* The igpu: item either comes from Raspberry Pi gpu RAM, or from
/proc/iomem. The latter source is Linux + superuser only, and is
not guaranteed to be accurate, but sometimes is. That is for iGPU
system RAM used, not for standalone GPUs with their own internal
RAM. Not all types of internal VRAM are detectable, it depends on
how the hardware assigns RAM to iGPU.
Raspberry Pi uses vcgencmd get_mem gpu to get gpu RAM amount, if
user is in video group and vcgencmd is installed.
Memory (RAM) data. Show only RAM arrays and modules in Memory reā
port. Skip empty slots. See -m.
Memory (RAM) data. Show a one line RAM report in Memory. See -m.
Sample: Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4
Show machine data. Device, Motherboard, BIOS, and if present,
System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older systems/kernels without the
required /sys data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. If usā
ing dmidecode, may also show BIOS/UEFI revision as well as verā
sion. --dmidecode forces use of dmidecode data instead of /sys.
Will also attempt to show if the system was booted by BIOS, UEFI,
or UEFI [Legacy], the latter being legacy BIOS boot mode in a
system board using UEFI.
Device information requires either /sys or dmidecode. Note that
other-vm? is a type that means itās usually a VM, but inxi failed
to detect which type, or positively confirm which VM it is. Priā
mary VM identification is via systemd-detect-virt but fallback
tests that should also support some BSDs are used. Less commonly
used or harder to detect VMs may not be correctly detected. If
you get an incorrect report, post an issue and weāll get it fixed
if possible.
Due to unreliable vendor data, device type will show: desktop,
laptop, notebook, server, blade, plus some obscure stuff that
inxi is unlikely to ever run on.
Show Advanced Network device information in addition to that proā
duced by -N. Shows interface, speed, MAC ID, state, etc.
Show Network device(s) information, including device driver. With
Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and LABEL if
available). Shows file system type if you have lsblk installed
(Linux only). For BSD/GNU Linux: shows file system type if file
is installed, and if you are root or if you have added to
/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.
Does not show components (partitions that create the md-raid arā
ray) of md-raid arrays.
To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
use with -l or -u.
Show full Partition information (-P plus all other detected
mounted partitions).
To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
use with -l or -u.
--ps [dev-base|fs|id|label|perā
cent-used|size|uuid|used]
Change default sort order of partition report. Corresponds to
PARTITION_SORT configuration item. These are the available sort
options:
dev-base ā /dev partition identifier, like /dev/sda1. Note that
itās an alphabetic sort, so sda12 is before sda2.
fs - Partition filesystem. Note that sorts will be somewhat ranā
dom if all filesystems are the same.
id - Mount point of partition (default).
label - Label of partition. If partitions have no labels, sort
will be random.
percent-used ā Percentage of partition size used.
size - KiB size of partition.
uuid - UUID of the partition.
used - KiB used of partition.
Show basic Partition information. Shows, if detected: / /boot
/boot/efi /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/tmp /var/log
(for android, shows /cache /data /firmware /system). If --swap
is not used, shows active swap partitions (never shows file or
zram type swap). Use -p to see all mounted partitions.
To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
use with -l or -u.
See -t.
Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo types:
APK (Alpine Linux + derived versions)
APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived versions, as well as rpm based apt
distros like PCLinuxOS or Alt-Linux)
CARDS (NuTyX + derived versions)
EMERGE (T2 SDE, svn target URL)
EOPKG (Solus)
NETPKG (Zenwalk/Slackware)
NIX (NixOS + other distros as alternate package manager)
PACMAN (Arch Linux, KaOS + derived versions)
PACMAN-G2 (Frugalware + derived versions)
PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
PKG (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
PORTAGE (Gentoo, Sabayon + derived versions)
PORTS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
SBOPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
SBOUI (Slackware + derived versions)
SCRATCHPKG (Venom + derived versions)
SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
SLAPT_GET (Slackware + derived versions)
SLPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
TCE (TinyCore)
TAZPKG (Slitaz)
URPM (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)
XBPS (Void)
YUM/ZYPP (Fedora, Red Hat, Suse + derived versions)
More will be added as distro data is collected. If yours is missā
ing please show us how to get this information and weāll try to
add it.
See -rx, -rxx, and -ra for installed package count information.
Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, device/array
size, and components. See extra data with -x / -xx.
md-raid: If device is resyncing, also shows resync progress line.
Note: supported types: lvm raid, md-raid, softraid, ZFS, and
hardware RAID. Other software RAID types may be added, if the
software RAID can be made to give the required output.
The component ID numbers work like this: mdraid: the numerator is
the actual mdraid component number; lvm/softraid/ZFS: the numeraā
tor is auto-incremented counter only. Eg. Online: 1: sdb1
If hardware RAID is detected, shows basic information. Due to
complexity of adding hardware RAID device disk / RAID reports,
those will only be added if there is demand, and reasonable reā
porting tools.
Checks inxi application dependencies and recommends, as well as
directories, then shows what package(s) you need to install to
add support for each feature.
Show report from sensors if sensors installed/configured: Motherā
board/CPU/GPU temperatures; detected fan speeds. GPU temperature
when available. Nvidia shows screen number for multiple screens.
IPMI sensors are also used (root required) if present.
See Advanced options --sensors-use or --sensors-exclude if you
want to use only a subset of all sensors, or exclude one (curā
rently only for lm-sensors and /sys sourced data).
For current Linux, will fallback gracefully to using
/sys/class/hwmon as sensor data source if lm-sensors is not inā
stalled. You can compare the two by using --force sensors-sys opā
tion with -s.
Show PCI slots with type, speed, and status information.
See -j
Show System information: host name, kernel, desktop environment
(if in X), distro. With -xx show dm - or startx - (only shows if
present and running if out of X), and if in X, with -xxx show
more desktop info, e.g. taskbar or panel.
[c|m|cm|mc NUMBER] Show processes. If no arguments, defaults to
cm. If followed by a number, shows that number of processes for
each type (default: 5; if in IRC, max: 5)
Make sure that there is no space between letters and numbers
(e.g. write as -t cm10).
c - CPU only. With -x, also shows memory for that process on same
line.
m - memory only. With -x, also shows CPU for that process on same
line. If the -I or -m lines are not triggered, will also show
the system RAM used/total information.
See -m for explanation of System RAM: fields and values.
cm - CPU+memory. With -x, shows also CPU or memory for that process
on same line.
Show UUIDs. Use with -j, -M -o, -p, and -P to show partition/sysā
tem board (not common) UUIDs. Requires one of those options.
Sample: -opju.
Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function.
If inxi -h has no listing for -U then itās disabled.
Auto-update inxi or pinxi. Note: if you installed as root, you
must be root to update, otherwise user is fine. Also installs /
updates current man page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if
/usr/local/share/man/ exists AND there is no inxi man page in
/usr/share/man/man1, otherwise it goes to /usr/share/man/man1).
This requires that you be root to write to that directory. See
or --no-man to force or disable man install.
accepts the following options (inxi and pinxi):
No arg - Get from main git branch.
3 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) version. Be aware that pinxi
when taken from here can be very unstable during active developā
ment! The inxi version is the stable master branch version. Also
useful to update if you have SSL issues and --no-ssl works.
4 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) FTP version (same as 3 verā
sion). Use if SSL issues and --no-ssl doesnāt work. For very old
systems with SSL 1, you will probably need to use this option,
which bypasses HTTP downloading, and uses straight FTP to get the
file from smxi.org server.
[http|https|ftp] - Get a version of $self_name from your own
server. Use the full download path, e.g.
inxi āU https://myserver.com/inxi
For failed downloads, use the debug option --dbg 1 in addition to
get more verbose failure reports.
See -J.
Report verbosity levels. If no verbosity level number is given, 0
is assumed. Should not be used with -b or -e since the option
that triggers the most features will override the one with fewer.
Supported levels: 0-8
Can be used together with other options.
Examples: inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4 or inxi --verbosity 4 or inxi
0 - Simple report. Same as: inxi (with no options).
1 - Basic report: System (-S); basic CPU (cores, type, average
clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available); Graphics (-G);
basic Disk; Info (-I).
2 - Adds: Machine (-M); Battery (-B) (if available); Networking deā
vices (-N). Same as inxi -b.
3 - Adds: full CPU (-C); advanced network (-n); triggers -x extra
data option.
4 - Adds: full Drive (-D); system Partitions (-P) (if present): /
/home /var/ /boot.
5 - Adds: memory/RAM (-m); audio device (-A); bluetooth (-E) (if
present); RAID data (-R) (if present); partition label (-l) and
UUID (-u); swap (-j); sensors (-s),
6 - Adds: full mounted partitions (-p); unmounted partitions (-o);
optical drives (-d); USB (-J); triggers -xx extra data option.
7 - Adds: full CPU flags/features (-f); advanced network IP (-i);
triggers -xxx; forces battery (-B), bluetooth (-E), Logical deā
vices (-L) and RAID (-R) regardless whether data was found for
them or not.
8 - Adds: PCI slots (--slots); GPU advanced EDID data (--edid); Reā
pos (-r); Processes (-tcm); triggers -a admin data option. This
is all the available system data.
inxi full version and license information. Prints information
then exits.
inxi single line version information. Prints information if not
short form (which shows version info already). Does not exit unā
less used without any other options. Can be used with normal line
options, and prints version info line as first line of output.
DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated
or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any further
access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather moniā
toring, or Conky type use. It is meant to get weather when you
need to see it, for example, on a remote server. If you did not
type the weather option in manually, itās an automated request.
Adds weather line for your current location (by IP address) if no
location requested. To get weather for an alternate location, add
[location]. See also -x, -xx, -xxx options. Please note that your
distributionās maintainer may chose to disable this feature.
With optional [location] - get weather/time for an alternate loā
cation. Accepts postal/zip code[, country], city,state pair, or
latitude,longitude. Note: city/country/state names must not conā
tain spaces. Replace spaces with the ā+ā sign. Donāt place spaces
around any commas. Postal code is not reliable except for North
America and maybe the UK. Try postal codes with and without counā
try code added. Note that City,State applies only to USA, otherā
wise itās City,Country. If country name (english) does not work,
try 2 character country code (e.g. Spain: es; Great Britain: gb).
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 for current
2 letter country codes.
Use only ASCII letters in city/state/country names.
Examples: -w OR -w 95623,us OR -w Boston,MA OR -w
45.5234,-122.6762 OR -w new+york,ny OR -w bodo,norway.
[1-9] Switches weather data source. Possible values are 1-9. 1-4
will generally be active, and 5-9 may or may not be active, so
check. 1 may not support city / country names with spaces (even
if you use the + sign instead of space). 2 offers pretty good
data, but may not have all small city names for -w location.
Please note that the data sources are not static per value, and
can change any time, or be removed, so always test to verify
which source is being used for each value if that is important to
you. Data sources may be added or removed on occasions, so try
each one and see which you prefer. If you get unsupported source
message, it means that number has not been implemented.
[m|i|mi|im] Sets weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), metā
ric (imperial) (mi, default), imperial (metric) (im). If metric
or imperial not found,sets to default value, or N/A.
FILTER OPTIONS
The following options allow for applying various types of filtering to
the output.
See -z, -Z.
--filter-uuid, --filter-vulnerabilities
See --zl, --zu, --zv.
Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file
value (if set):
SHOW_HOST=āfalseā - Same as: SHOW_HOST=ātrueā
This is an absolute override, the host will always show no matter
what other switches you use.
Turns off hostname in System line. This is default when using -z,
for anonymizing inxi report for posting on forums or IRC. Overā
rides configuration value (if set):
SHOW_HOST=ātrueā - Same as: SHOW_HOST=āfalseā
This is an absolute override, the host will not show no matter
what other switches you use.
Adds security filters for IP addresses, serial numbers, MAC, loā
cation (-w), and user home directory name. Removes Host:. On by
default for IRC clients.
Shortcut to trigger -z, --zl, --zu, --zv. All the filters, that
is.
Filter partition label names from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa
(root=LABEL=...). Generally only useful in very specialized
cases.
Filter partition UUIDs from -j, -o, -p, -P, -Sa (root=UUID=...),
board UUID. Useful in specialized cases.
--filter-v, --filter-vulnerabilities
Filter Vulnerabilities report from -Ca. Generally only useful in
very specialized cases.
, --filter-override , --no-filter
Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging netā
working issues in IRC for example.
OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
The following options allow for modifying the output in various ways.
Set color scheme. If no scheme number is supplied, 0 is assumed.
These color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi
starting which lets you set the config file value for the selecā
tion.
NOTE: All configuration file set color values are removed when
output is piped or redirected. You must use the explicit runtime
[color number] option if you want color codes to be present in
the piped/redirected output.
Color selectors for each type display (NOTE: IRC and global only
show safe color set):
95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.
96 - GUI IRC, running in X - like XChat, Quassel, Konversation etc.
97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.
99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.
Setting a specific color type removes the global color selection.
See --output.
Change primary wide indent width. Generally useless. Only applied
if output width is greater than max wrap width (see --max-wrap).
Use configuration item INDENT to make permanent.
Change primary wrap mode, second, and -y1 level indents. First
indent level only applied if output width is less than max wrap
width (see --max-wrap). 0 disables all wrapped indents and all
second level indents. Use configuration item INDENTS to make perā
manent.
Overrides default or configuration set line starter wrap width
value. Wrap max is the maximum width that inxi will wrap line
starters (e.g. Info:) to their own lines, with data lines inā
dented default 2 columns (use --indents to change).
If terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width,
wrapping of line starter occurs. If 80 or less, no wrapping will
occur. Overrides internal default value (110) and user configuraā
tion value MAX_WRAP.
Change data output type. Requires --output-file if not screen.
See this page https://smxi.org/docs/inxiājsonāxmlāoutput.htm BEā
FORE you post an issue about not understanding, or being unable
to use, the output format! That gives a fairly complete explanaā
tion of what the output means, and how to work with it. It is not
a tutorial, and it will not teach you to program, if you donāt
know how to work with json/xml structures using a proper lanā
guage, then this feature is not meant for you.
--export-file [full path to output file|print]
The given directory path must exist. The directory path given
must exist, The print options prints to stdout. Required for
non-screen --output formats (json|xml).
Change the default report key: value separator : to something
else. Make permanent with configuration item SEP2_CONSOLE.
See --maxāwrap.
This is an absolute width override which sets the output line
width max. Overrides COLS_MAX_IRC, COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY,
COLS_MAX_CONSOLE configuration items, or the actual widths of the
terminal.
* -y - sets default width of 80 columns.
* -y [60āxxx] - sets width to given number. Must be 60 or more.
* -y 1 - switches to a single indented key/value pair per line,
and removes all long line wrapping (similar to dmidecode output).
Not recommended for use with -Y;
* -y -1 - removes width limits (if assigned by configuration
items).
Examples:
inxi -exx -y 130
inxi -exxy
inxi -bay1
--height, --less [-3-[integer]
Control output height. Useful when in console, and scrollback not
available. Breaks output flow based on values provided.
* -Y 0 or -Y - Set default max height to terminal height.
* -Y [1-xxx] - set max output block height height in lines.
* -Y -1 - Print out one primary data item block (like CPU:, Sysā
tem:) at a time. Useful for very long outputs like -ea, -v8, etc.
Not available for -h.
* -Y -2 - Do not disable output colors when redirected or piped
to another program. Useful if piping output to less -R for examā
ple. This does not limit the height otherwise since the expectaā
tion it is being piped to another program like less which will
handle that.
* -Y -3 - Restore default unlimited output lines if LINES_MAX
configuration item set.
Recommended to use the following for very clean up and down
scrollable output out of display, while retaining the color
schemes, which are normally removed with piping or redirect:
pinxi -v8Y -2 | less -R
Note: since itās not possible for inxi to know how many actual
terminal lines are being used by terminal wrapped output, with -y
1 , it may be better in general to use a fixed height like:
EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options can be triggered by one or more -x. Alternatively, the -v
options trigger them in the following way: -v 3 adds -x; -v 6 adds -xx;
These extra data triggers can be useful for getting more in-depth data
on various options. They can be added to any long form option list,
e.g.: -bxx or -Sxxx
There are 3 extra data levels:
OR
The following details show which lines / items display extra information
for each extra data level.
-A - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
specific vendor [product] information.
- Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each deā
vice.
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds inactive sound servers/APIs, if detected.
-B - Adds battery health: (uncommon. If other than āgoodā, always
shows for -B.
- Adds battery temperature, in C (uncommon).
- Adds vendor/model, battery status (if battery present).
- Adds attached battery powered peripherals (Device-[number]:) if
detected (keyboard, mouse, etc.).
- Adds battery volts:, min: voltages. Note that if difference is
critical, that is current voltage is too close to minimum voltā
age, shows without -x.
-C - Adds bogomips to CPU speed report (if available).
- Adds L1: and L3: cache types if either are present/available.
For BSD or legacy Linux, uses dmidecode + doas/sudo/root. Force
use of dmidecode cache values by adding --dmidecode. This will
override /sys based cache data, which tends to be better, so in
general donāt do that.
- Adds boost: [enabled|disabled] if detected, aka turbo. Not all
CPUs have this feature.
- Adds CPU Flags-basic: (short list). Use -f to see full
flag/feature list.
- Adds CPU microarchitecture + revision (e.g. Sandy Bridge, K8,
ARMv8, P6, etc.). Only shows data if detected. Newer microarchiā
tectures will have to be added as they appear, and require the
CPU family ID, model ID, and stepping.
- Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) is available but
disabled, after type: data smt: disabled. type: MT means itās enā
abled. See -Cxxx.
Examples:
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 2
arch: K8 rev.F+ rev: 2
If unable to non-ambiguosly determine architecture, will show
something like: arch: Amber Lake note: check rev: 9
- Adds CPU highest speed after avg: [speed] high: [speed] if
greater than 1 core and cores have different speeds. Linux only.
-d - Adds more items to Features line of optical drive; dds rev verā
sion to optical drive.
-D - Adds drive temperature with disk data.
Method 1: Systems running Linux kernels Ė5.6 and newer should
have drivetemp module data available. If so, drive temps will
come from /sys data for each drive, and will not require root or
hddtemp. This method is MUCH faster than using hddtemp. Note that
NVMe drives do not require drivetemp.
If your drivetemp module is not enabled, enable it:
modprobe drivetemp
Once enabled, add drivetemp to /etc/modules or /etc/modā
ules-load.d/***.conf so it starts automatically.
If you see drive temps running as regular user and you did not
configure system to use doas/sudo hddtemp, then your system supā
ports this feature. If no /sys data is found, inxi will try to
use hddtemp methods instead for that drive. Hint: if temp is
/sys sourced, the temp will be to 1 decimal, like 34.8, if hdā
dtemp sourced, they will be integers.
Method 2: if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root or if
you have added to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.
You can force use of hddtemp for all drives using --hddtemp.
- If free LVM volume group size detected (root required), show
lvm-free: on Local Storage line. This is how much unused space
the VGs contain, that is, space not assigned to LVs.
- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
specific vendor [product] information.
- Adds PCI/USB Bus ID of each device.
- Adds driver version (if available) for each device.
- Adds (if available, btmgmt, hciconfig only) LMP (HCI if no LMP
data, and HCI if HCI/LMP versions are different) version (if
available) for each HCI ID.
-G - Adds GPU micro-architecture (if AMD/Intel/Nvidia and detected).
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
specific vendor [product] information.
- X.org: Adds (for single GPU, nvidia driver) screen number that
GPU is running on.
- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
- For EGL, adds active/inactive platform report.
- For OpenGL (X.org only) adds direct render status, GLX version.
- For Vulkan, adds device count.
-i - Adds IP v6 additional scope data, like Global, Site, Temporary
for each interface.
Note that there is no way we are aware of to filter out the depā
recated IP v6 scope site/global temporary addresses from the outā
put of ifconfig. The ip tool shows that clearly.
ip-v6-temporary - (ip tool only), scope global temporary. Scope
global temporary deprecated is not shown
ip-v6-global - scope global (ifconfig will show this for all
types, global, global temporary, and global temporary deprecated,
ip shows it only for global)
ip-v6-link - scope link (ip/ifconfig) - default for -i.
ip-v6-site - scope site (ip/ifconfig). This has been deprecated
in IPv6, but still exists. ifconfig may show multiple site valā
ues, as with global temporary, and global temporary deprecated.
ip-v6-unknown - unknown scope
-I - Adds current init system (and init rc in some cases, like
OpenRC). With -xx, shows init/rc version number, if available.
- Adds default system compilers. With -xx, also show other inā
stalled compiler versions.
- Adds current runlevel/target (not available with all init sysā
tems).
- Adds total packages discovered in system. See -xx and -a for
per package manager type reports. Moves to Repos if -rx.
If your package manager is not supported, please file an issue
and weāll add it. That requires the full output of the query or
method to discover all installed packages on your system, as well
of course as the command or method used to discover those.
- If in shell (i.e. not in IRC client), adds shell version numā
ber, if available.
Add mapper:. See -x -o.
- For Devices, adds driver(s).
- Adds, if available, USB speed in base 10 bits/s (Si) units Mb/s
or Gb/s (may be incorrect on BSDs due to non reliable data
source). These are base 10 bits per second. This unit corresponds
to the standard units the USB consortium uses to indicate speeds,
but not to how most of the rest of your system reports sizes. Use
to add base 2 IEC Byte/second speeds.
- Adds dm: dmāx to VG > LV and other Device types. This can help
tracking down which device belongs to what.
- If present, adds maximum memory module/device size in the Array
line. Only some systems will have this data available. Shows esā
timate if it can generate one.
-N - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
specific vendor [product] information.
- Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each deā
vice;
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
- Adds mapper: (the /dev/mapper/ partition ID) if mapped partiā
tion.
Example: ID-4: /home ... dev: /dev/dmā6 mapped: ar0āhome
-r - Adds Package info. See -Ix
-R - md-raid: Adds second RAID Info line with extra data: blocks,
chunk size, bitmap (if present). Resync line, shows blocks
synced/total blocks.
- Hardware RAID: Adds driver version, Bus ID.
-s - Adds basic voltages: 12v, 5v, 3.3v, vbat (ipmi, lm-sensors /
/sys/class/hwmon if present).
-S - Adds Kernel compiler version.
- Adds to Distro: base: if detected. System base will only be
seen on a subset of distributions. The distro must be both deā
rived from a parent distro (e.g. Mint from Ubuntu), and explicā
itly added to the supported distributions for this feature. Due
to the complexity of distribution identification, these will only
be added as relatively solid methods are found for each distribuā
tion system base detection.
- Adds slot bus-ID:, if found.
- Adds memory use report to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory
(-xt m).
-w - Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
- Adds wind speed and direction.
-A - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, if detected).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds with: [item] status: [state/plugin] helper daemons/plugins
for the sound API/server.
-B - Adds current power use, in watts (if available).
- Adds serial number.
- Adds a charging: container for all charging specific informaā
tion.
- Adds charge cycles (NOTE: there appears to be a problem with
the Linux kernel obtaining the cycle count, so this often shows
0. Thereās nothing that can be done about this glitch, the data
is simply not available as of 2018-04-03), Since 0 isnāt a real
value, shows N/A if not found or 0.
-D - Adds HDD/SSD drive serial number.
- Adds drive speed (if available). This is the theoretical top
speed of the device as reported. This speed may be restricted by
system board limits, eg. a SATA 3 drive on a SATA 2 board may reā
port SATA 2 speeds, but this is not completely consistent, someā
times a SATA 3 device on a SATA 2 board reports its design speed.
NVMe drives: adds lanes, and (per direction) speed is calculated
with lane speed * lanes * PCIe overhead. PCIe 1 and 2 have data
rates of GT/s * .8 = Gb/s (10 bits required to transfer 8 bits of
data). PCIe 3 and greater transfer data at a rate of GT/s *
128/130 * lanes = Gb/s (130 bits required to transfer 128 bits of
data).
For a PCIe 3 NVMe drive, with speed of 8 GT/s and 4 lanes (8GT/s
* 128/130 * 4 = 31.6 Gb/s):
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
- Adds HDD/SSD drive duid, if available. Some BSDs have it.
- Adds for USB drives USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe blueā
tooth, which is rare).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds (hciconfig only) LMP subversion (and/or HCI revision if
applicable) for each device.
-G Triggers much more complete Screen/Monitor report.
X.org: requires xdpyinfo or xrandr, and the advanced per monitor
feature requires xrandr.
Wayland: requires any tool capable of showing monitor and resoluā
tion information. Sway has swaymsg, weston-info or wayland-info
can show Wayland information on any Wayland compositor, and
wlr-randr can show Wayland information for any wlroots based comā
positor.
Further note that all references to Displays, Screens, and Moniā
tors are referring to the X or Wayland technical terms, not norā
mal consumer usage.
X.org: 1 Display runs 1 or more Screens, and 1 Screen runs 1 or
more Monitors.
Wayland: The Display is the primary container, and it can contain
1 or more Monitors.
- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device
and detected).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds output port IDs, active, off (connected but disabled, like
a closed laptop lid) and empty. Example:
ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
- Adds Display ID. X.org: the Display running the Screen that
runs the Monitors; Wayland: the Display that runs the monitors.
- Adds compositor, if found (always shows for Wayland).
- Wayland: Adds to Display dārect: if > 1 monitors in Display.
This is the size of the rectangle Wayland creates to situate the
monitors in.
- X.org: If available, shows alternate: Xorg drivers. This means
a driver on the default list of drivers Xorg automatically checks
for the device, but which is not installed. For example, if you
have nouveau driver, nvidia would show as alternate if it was not
installed. Note that alternate: does NOT mean you should have it,
itās just one of the drivers Xorg checks to see if is present and
loaded when checking the device. This can let you know there are
other driver options. Note that if you have explicitly set the
driver in xorg.conf, Xorg will not create this automatic check
driver list.
- Xorg: Adds total number of Screens listed for the current Disā
play.
- Xorg: Adds default Screen ID if Screen (not monitor!) total is
greater than 1.
- X.org: Adds Screen line, which includes the ID (Screen: 0) then
sāres (Screen resolution), s-dpi. Remember, this is an Xorg
Screen, NOT a monitor screen, and the information listed is about
the Xorg Screen! It may at times be the same as a single monitor
system, but usually itās different in some ways. Note that the
physical monitor dpi and the Xorg dpi are not necessarily the
same thing, and can vary widely.
- Adds Monitor lines. Monitors are a subset of a Screen (X.org)
or Display (Wayland), each of which can have one or more moniā
tors. Normally a dual monitor setup is 2 monitors run by one Xorg
Screen/Wayland Display.
- res: is the current monitor mode, along with the frequency hz:.
- pos: [primary,]{position string|row-col} (X.org: requires
xrandr; Wayland: requires swaymsg [sway], wlr-randr [wlroots
based compositors], weston-info / wayland-info [all]). Uses eiā
ther explicit primary value or +0+0 position if no primary moniā
tor value set. pos: does not show for single monitor setups, or
if no position data was found.
Position is text (left, center, centerāl, center-r, right, top,
top-left, top-center, top-right, middle, middle-c, middle-r, botā
tom, bottom-l, bottom-c, bottom-r) if monitors fit within the
following grids: 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3. If
layout not supported in text, uses [row-nu]-[column-nu] instead
to indicate the monitorās position in its grid.
The position is based on the upper left corner of each monitor
relative to the grid of monitors that the Xorg Screen is composed
of.
- diag: monitor screen diagonal in mm (inches). Note that this is
the real monitor size, not the Xorg full Screen diagonal size,
which can be quite different.
- For EGL, shows platform by specific platforms, with driver and
egl version if different from the main one.
- For OpenGL, adds ES version (es-v) if available. If the Display
line did not find an X11 display ID, the ID (e.g. :0.0) will show
here instead.
- For OpenGL, Vulkan, adds deviceāID, if available.
- For Vulkan, adds per Device ID report (type, driver, deā
vice-ID).
-I - Addes Power: parent for power data children uptime: and adds
wakeups:. Wakeups shows how many times the machine has been woken
from suspend state during current uptime period (if available,
Linux only). 0 value means the machine has not been suspended.
- Adds init type version number (and rc if present).
- Adds alternate (alt:) detected installed compiler versions (if
present).
- Adds system default runlevel/target, if detected. Supports Sysā
temd / Upstart /SysVinit type defaults.
- Shows Packages: counts by discovered package manager types
(pm:). In cases where only 1 pm had results, does not show total
after Packages:. Does not show installed package managers with 0
packages. See -a for full report. Moves to Repos if -rxx.
- Adds parent program (or pty/tty) that started shell, if not IRC
client.
- Adds swap priority to each swap partition (for -P) used, and
for all swap types (for -j).
- Adds vendor:chip id.
- Adds USB lanes. Uses tx (transmit) lane count for total unless
rx and tx counts are different (eg: lanes: rx: 2 tx: 4). Linux
only. See -Ja for sample report.
- Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta
data volumes.
- Adds full list of Components, sub-components, and their physiā
cal devices.
- For LVM RAID, adds a RAID report line (if not -R). Read up on
LVM documentation to better understand their use of the term
āstripesā.
- Adds memory device Manufacturer.
- Adds memory device Part Number (part-no:). Useful for ordering
new or replacement memory sticks etc. Part numbers are unique,
particularly if you use the word memory in the search as well.
With -xxx, also shows serial number.
- Adds single/double bank memory, if data is found. Note, this
may not be 100% right all of the time since it depends on the orā
der that data is found in dmidecode output for type 6 and type
17.
- Adds, if present, memory array voltage. Only some legacy sysā
tems will have this data available.
- Adds memory module current configured operating voltage, if
available.
-M - Adds chassis information, if data is available. Also shows BIOS
ROM size if using dmidecode.
- Adds board part number (part-nu:) if available. This is not
commonly found.
-N - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device
and detected).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
-r - Adds to Packages: info. See -Ixx
-R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present) and algorithm. If resync,
shows progress bar.
- Hardware RAID: Adds Chip vendor:product ID.
-s - Adds DIMM/SOC voltages, if present (ipmi only).
- Adds desktop toolkit (tk:), if available (Xfce/KDE/Trinā
ity/Gnome etc).
- Adds, if run in X, window manager (wm:), if available. Not all
window managers are supported. File issue to request a missing
one. Some desktops support using more than one window manager, so
this can be useful to see what window manager is actually runā
ning. If none found, shows nothing. Uses a less accurate fallback
tool wmctrl if ps tests fail to find data.
- Adds display/login manager (dm:/lm:), if present. If none,
shows N/A. Supports most known display/login managers, including
elogind, entrance, gdm, gdm3, greetd, kdm, lemurs, lightdm, lxdm,
ly, mdm, mlogind, nodm, sddm, seatd, slim, slimski, tint, wdm,
xdm, and several others, added as discovered.
- Adds slot length.
- Adds slot voltage, if available.
-w - Adds wind chill, heat index, and dew point, if available.
- Adds cloud cover, rain, snow, or precipitation (amount in preā
vious hour to observation time), if available.
- Adds, if present, serial number.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
- Adds battery temperature (uncommon).
- Adds battery build date (uncommon).
- Adds battery chemistry (e.g. Li-ion)).
- Adds location (only available from dmidecode derived output.
- Adds battery charging type (uncommon).
- Adds attached device rechargeable: [yes|no] information.
- Adds CPU voltage and external clock speed (this is the motherā
board speed). Requires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode.
- Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) data is available,
after type: data smt: [status].
smt: [status]
MT in type: will show if smt is enabled in general. 3 values are
possible: [enabled|disabled|<unsupported>]. <unsupported> means
the CPU does not support SMT.
- Adds HDD/SSD drive firmware revision number (if available).
- Adds drive partition scheme (in most cases), e.g. scheme: GPT.
Currently not able to detect all schemes, but handles the most
common, e.g. GPT or MBR.
- Adds drive tech (HDD/SSD), rotation speed (in some but not all
cases), e.g. tech: HDD rpm: 7200, or tech: SSD if positive SSD
identification was made. If no HDD, rotation, or positive SSD ID
found, shows tech: N/A. Not all HDD spinning disks report their
speed, so even if they are spinning, no rpm data will show.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
- Adds, if present, bluetooth device class ID.
- Adds (hciconfig only) HCI version, revision.
- Adds, if present, Device PCI/USB class ID.
- Adds to Device serial: number (if found).
- Xorg: Adds to Screen: s-size: and s-diag:. (Screen size data
requires xdpyinfo). This is the X.org Screen dimensions, NOT the
Monitor size!
- Expands monitor res: to current mode:, hz:, scale:, and if
scale != 1, scaled to: resolution.
- Adds to Monitors (if detected) size (size: 277x156mm
(10.9x6.1")). Note that this is the real physical monitor size,
not the Xorg Screen/Wayland Display size, which can be quite difā
ferent (1 Xorg Screen / Wayland Display can for instance contain
two or more monitors).
- Adds to Monitors modes: min: max: (if detected). These are the
smallest and largest monitor modes found, using an inexact
method, so might not always be right.
- Adds to Monitors serial: number (if detected).
- For EGL, shows hardware based driver(s) (hw:), with the related
hardware, like AMD or Intel.
- For Vulkan, adds layer count, per device driver hardware vendor
(not displayed if device name is present with -a).
- For Power: adds supported system power states:, active suspend:
type, active hibernate: type. See https://www.kerā
nel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admināguide/pm/sleepāstates.html for full
explanation of states and actions.
- For Shell: adds (su|sudo|login) to shell name if present.
- For Shell: adds default: shell if different from running shell,
and default shell v:, if available.
- For running-in: adds (SSH) to parent, if present. SSH detection
uses the whoami test.
- Adds, if present, serial number for non hub devices.
- Adds interfaces: for non hub devices.
- Adds, if present, USB class ID.
- Adds, if non 0, max power in mA.
- Adds memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, total
width. e.g.
width (bits): data: 64 total: 72
Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmidecode
output, so inxi will take the larger value as the total if
present. Data width usually corresponds to the CPU bits. Total
can reflect EEC or Dual Channel widths. If no total width data is
found, shows:
width: N/A
- Adds device type detail, e.g. type: DDR3 detail: Synchronous.
- Adds device serial number.
- Adds memory module current, max, and min voltages, if they are
available and different from each other. If they are the identiā
cal, displays same as -xxm voltage report. Use -ma to always see
them.
- Adds, if present, board/chassis UUID, This is also activated by
- Adds, if present, serial number.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
- md-raid: Adds system mdraid support types (kernel support, read
ahead, RAID events)
- zfs-raid: Adds portion allocated (used) by RAID array/device.
- Hardware RAID: Adds rev, ports, and (if available and/or releā
vant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor [product] inforā
mation.
- Adds current kernel clock source, if available (Linux only).
- Adds (if present), window manager (wm) version number.
- Adds, if in X, or with āādisplay, bar/dock/menu/panel/tray comā
ponents (with:). If none found, shows nothing. Examples: cairoā
dock, docky, gnome-panel, lxpanel, tint2, trayer, lxqt-panel,
xfce4-panel and many others.
- Adds (if present) tools: item for all detected running screenā
savers, screen lockers. Note that not all screen lockers run as
daemons/services, some are just programs called by other tools or
actions.
- Adds (if available, and in display), virtual terminal (vt) numā
ber. These are the same as ctrl+alt+F[x] numbers usually. Some
systems have this, some donāt, it varies.
- Adds (if present), display/login manager (dm) version number.
- Adds location (city state country), observation altitude (if
available), weather observation time (if available), sunset/sunā
rise (if available).
ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are triggered with --admin or -a. Admin options are adā
vanced report options, and are more technical, and mostly of interest to
system administrators or other machine admins.
The --admin option sets -xxx, and only has to be used once. It will
trigger the following features:
-A - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of
driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If no
non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it
lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, itās
just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe genā
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items
different from primary shown).
- Adds list of detected audio server tools (tools: [tools]) to
API/Server lines, like alsamixer, jack_control, pactl, pavuctl,
pwācli, sndioctl, etc.
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds CPU generation, process node, and built years, if deā
tected. For Intel, only will show if Core generation, otherwise
the arch value is enough. For AMD, only shows Zen generation.
- Adds microarchitecture level: (v1,v2,v3,v4) (64 bit Intel/AMD
CPUs only). This information is used for setting compile time opā
timization switches in for example GCC. These levels were introā
duced in 2020.
Because this a CPU flag based test, and these levels when > 2 are
not always 100% based on exposed CPU flags (eg OSXSAVE), for >
v2, adds note: check.
- Adds CPU family, model-id, and stepping (replaces rev of -Cx).
Format is hexadecimal (decimal) if greater than 9, otherwise
hexadecimal.
- Adds CPU microcode. Format is hexadecimal.
- Adds socket type (for motherboard CPU socket, if available). If
results doubtful will list two socket types and note: check. Reā
quires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. The item in parentheses may
simply be a different syntax for the same socket, but in general,
check this before trusting it.
Sample: socket: 775 (478) note: check
Sample: socket: AM4
- Adds DMI CPU base and boost/turbo speeds. Requires
doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. In some cases, like with overclockā
ing or āturboā or āboostā modes, voltage and external clock
speeds may be increased, or short term limits raised on max CPU
speeds. These are often not reflected in /sys based CPU min/max:
speed results, but often are using this source.
Samples:
CPU not overclocked, with boost, like Ryzen:
Speed (MHz):
avg: 2861
high: 3250
min/max: 1550/3400
boost: enabled
base/boost: 3400/3900
Overclocked 2900 MHz CPU, with no boost available:
Speed (MHz):
avg: 2345
high: 2900
min/max: 800/2900
base/boost: 3350/3000
Overclocked 3000 MHz CPU, with boosted max speed:
Speed (MHz):
avg: 3260
high: 4190
min/max: 1200/3001
base/boost: 3000/4000
Note that these numbers can be confusing, but basically, the base
number is the actual normal top speed the CPU runs at without
boost mode, and the boost number is the max speed the CPU reports
itself able to run at. The actual max speed may be higher than
either value, or lower. The boost number appears to be hard-coded
into the CPU DMI data, and does not seem to reflect actual max
speeds that overclocking or other combinations of speed boosters
can enable, as you can see from the example where the CPU is runā
ning at a speed faster than the min/max or base/boost values.
Note that the normal min/max: speeds do NOT show actual overā
clocked OR boost/turbo mode speeds, and appear to be hard-coded
values, not dynamic real values. The base/boost: values are someā
times real, and sometimes not. base appears in general to be
real.
- Adds frequency scaling: governor:.. driver:.. if found/availā
able. Also adds scaling min/max speeds if different from standard
CPU min/max spees (not common).
- Adds description of cache topology per cpu. Linux only.
- Creates new Topology: line after the Info: line. Moves cache
data to this line from Info: line.
Topology line contains, if available and/or relevant: physical
CPU count (cpus:); per physical CPU dies:, clusters:, cores:;
threads per core, if > 1 (tpc:); how many threads: (if more
threads than cores); smt status (if no smt status found, shows
N/A).
Not all CPUs have or report dies or clusters. Some may have dies
but no clusters, some clusters but no dies, some dies and clusā
ters, and some neither dies nor clusters. This is a function of
how the CPU topology reports itself to the kernel. Note that core
counts are per physical CPU, not per die or cluster. Clusters
are per die, and in cases of > 1 dies, will show as: clusters:
2x4.
If complex CPU type, like Alder lake, cores: will have a more
granular breakdown of how many mt (multi-threaded) and how many
st (single-threaded) cores there are in the physical cpu
(mt-cores:, st-cores:); For complex CPU types like ARM SoC deā
vices with 2 CPU types, with different core counts and/or
min/max:) frequencies, variant: per type found, with relevant
differences shown, like cores:, min/max:, etc.
CPU:
Info:
model: AMD EPYC 7281
bits: 64
type: MT MCP MCM SMP
arch: Zen
gen: 1
level: v3
note: check
process: GF 14nm
built: 2017-19
family:0x17 (23)
model-id:1
stepping: 2
microcode: 0x8001250
Topology:
cpus: 2
dies: 4
cores: 16
threads: 32
tpc: 2
cache:
L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB)
desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x64 KiB
L2: 2x 8 MiB (16 MiB)
desc: 16x512 KiB
L3: 2x 32 MiB (64 MiB)
desc: 8x4 MiB
Speed (MHz):
avg: 1195
high: 1197
min/max: 1200/2100
boost: enabled
scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
governor: ondemand
cores:
1: 1195
2: 1196
....
bogomips: 267823
Or this Raptor Lake with 1 die, 4 clusters, and efficiency and
perforance cores:
CPU:
Info:
model: 13th Gen Intel Core i5ā1345U
bits: 64
type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake
level: v3
note: check
built: 2022+
process: Intel 7 (10nm)
family: 6
modelāid: 0xBA (186)
stepping: 3
microcode: 0x411C
Topology:
cpus: 1
dies: 1
clusters: 4
cores: 10
threads: 12
mt: 2
tpc: 2
st: 8
smt: enabled
cache:
L1: 928 KiB
desc: dā8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; iā2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
L2: 6.5 MiB
desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB
L3: 12 MiB
desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz):
avg: 1535
high: 2820
min/max: 400/4700:3500
scaling:
driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave
cores:
1: 0
2: 400
3: 429
4: 926
5: 1244
6: 1139
7: 2680
8: 1021
9: 2582
10: 2744
11: 2820
12: 2445
bogomips: 59904
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
- Adds CPU Vulnerabilities (bugs) as known by your current kerā
nel. Lists by Type: ... (status|mitigation): .... for systems
that support this feature (Linux kernel 4.14 or newer, or patched
older kernels).
- Adds logical and physical block size in bytes.
Using smartctl (requires doas/sudo/root privileges).
- Adds device model family, like Caviar Black, if available.
- Adds SATA type (eg 1.0, 2.6, 3.0) if a SATA device.
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
- Adds SMART report line: status, enabled/disabled, health, powā
ered on, cycles, and some error cases if out of range values.
Note that for Pre-fail items, it will show the VALUE and THRESHā
OLD numbers. It will also fall back for unknown attributes that
are or have been failing and print out the Attribute name, value,
threshold, and failing message. This way even for unhandled Atā
tribute names, you should get a solid report for full failure
cases. Other cases may show if inxi believes that the item may be
approaching failure. This is a guess so make sure to check the
drive and smartctl full output to verify before taking any furā
ther action.
- Adds, for USB or other external drives, actual model name/serā
ial if available, and different from enclosure model/serial, and
corrects block sizes if necessary.
- Adds for USB drives USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds in drive temperature for some drives as well, and other
useful data.
- Adds (hciconfig only) extra line to Report:, Info:. Includes,
if available, ACL MTU, SCO MTU, Link policy, Link mode, and Serā
vice Classes.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe genā
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items
different from primary shown. Bluetooth PCIe rare).
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds, if present, bluetooth status: discoverable, active disā
coverable, and pairing items.
-G - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of
driving each Device-x (not including the current loaded:). If no
non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it
lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, itās
just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.
- Adds (AMD/Intel/Nvidia, if available) process: [node] built:
[years] to arch: item.
- Adds (if Linux and Nvidia device) non-free support information
(if available). This can be useful for forum support people to
determine if the card supports current active legacy Nvidia driā
ver branches, or if the card nonfree driver is EOL or active.
Note that if card is current, shows basic series and status.
Includes extended non free Nvidia legacy informatin (Linux and
Nvidia only), and arch: reports (AMD/Intel/Nvidia). Useful to
help diagnose driver support issues, shows extra data that can
help diagnose/debug. Adds code: item if found and not the same as
arch:.
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
inxi -Gaz
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel
non-free: 173.14.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: kernel: 3.12 xorg: 1.15
release: 173.14.39 arch: Rankine code: NV3x process: 130-150nm
built: 2003-05 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv,nvidia gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
With -y1:
inxi -Gaz -y1
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
driver: nouveau
v: kernel
non-free:
series: 173.14.xx
status: legacy (EOL)
last:
kernel: 3.12
xorg: 1.15
release: 173.14.39
arch: Rankine
code: NV3x
process: 130-150nm
built: 2003-05
ports:
active: VGA-1
empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:0322
class-ID: 0300
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe genā
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items
different from primary shown).
- Adds to Monitors built:, gamma:, ratio: (if found).
- Adds to OpenGL device memory and unified status, if present.
- Adds to Vulkan full device report, with full device names, ids,
drivers, driver versions, surfaces.
- Adds Info: Tools: item. Tools are arranged into the following
categories: api: (for EGL, OpenGL, Vulkan etc.), de: (specific to
a desktop environment), gpu (GPU monitoring and tweaking), wl:
(Wayland specific), x11 (x11 specific).
X.org sample (with both xdpyinfo and xrandr data available), one
scaled monitor:
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD
5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon
v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen
process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports:
active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 52.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
dri: r600 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2432x1024 s-dpi: 96
s-size: 641x270mm (25.24x10.63") s-diag: 696mm (27.38")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: <filter> built: 2004 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) gamma: 1.2 size: 338x270mm (13.31x10.63")
diag: 433mm (17") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell 1908FP serial: <filter>
built: 2008 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60 scale: 111% (0.9)
to: 1152x922 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4 size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.85")
diag: 482mm (19") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd r600 platforms: device: 0 drv: r600
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: r600
x11: drv: r600 inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /
6.11.5-1-liquorix-amd64 LLVM 19.1.1) device-ID: 1002:68f9
memory: 1000 MiB unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: xfce4-display-settings gpu: radeontop x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
xprop, xrandr
Wayland sample, with Sway/swaymsg, scaled monitor:
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6
code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,
HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony integrated camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:4
chip-ID: 04f2:b221 class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 compositor: Sway
v: 1.9 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: 1
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: AU Optronics 0x313c built: 2010 res:
mode: 1366x768 hz: 60 scale: 110% (1.1) to: 1241x698 dpi: 112
gamma: 1.2 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0
drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless:
drv: crocus wayland: drv: crocus inactive: x11
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1
note: incomplete (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics
3000 (SNB GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: wayland
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: xfce4-display-settings wl: swaymsg, wayland-info, wlr-randr
x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
-I - Adds to Power: other hibernate and suspend available (avail:)
states, hibernate suspend image: size, and if any suspend failā
ures (fails:), how many.
- Adds power daemons/services (services:) running. Note not all
services are daemons.
- Adds to Packages number of lib packages detected per package
manager. Also adds detected package managers with 0 packages
listed. Adds package manager tools (supported: rpm, dpkg, pkgā
tool) Moves to Repos if -ra.
- Adds service control tool, tested for in the following order:
systemctl rc-service rcctl service sv /etc/rc.d /etc/init.d. Can
be useful to know which you need when using an unfamiliar maā
chine.
inxi -aI
Info:
Memory: total: N/A available: 31.27 GiB used: 14.9 GiB (47.7%)
Processes: 651 Power: uptime: 8d 21h 32m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 14 fails: 3 hibernate: platform
avail: shutdown,reboot,suspend,test_resume image: 12.49 GiB
services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: systemd v: 255
target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 3960 libs: 2184 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude
pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 alt: 5/6/8/9/10/11/12 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.21 running-in: xfce4-terminal pinxi: 3.3.32
-j (--swap), -a -P [swap], -a -P [swap]
- Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indiā
cate if the value is the default value or not (Linux only, and
only if available). If not the default value, shows default value
as well, e.g.
For -P per swap physical partition:
swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)
For -j row 1 report:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)
- Adds zswap data for row 1 report:
zswap: [yes/no] compressor: [type] maxāpool: xx%
- Adds for zram swap type: active compression type, available
compression types, and max compression streams.
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
- Adds, if available, USB speed in IEC units MiB/s or GiB/s (may
be incorrect on BSDs due to non reliable data source). These are
base 2 Bytes per second.
- Adds USB mode (Linux only), which is the technical terms the
USB group uses to describe USB revisions. In cases where speed
and rev are an unknown combination, (and probably at least one is
wrong) shows message.
There are no granular data sources in BSDs for accurate reviā
sion/lane/speed information, so mode cannot be determined.
Sample:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1ā4:2 info: Wacom ET-0405A [Graphire2 (4x5)] type: mouse
driver: usbhid,wacom interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 40mA chip-ID: 056a:0011 class-ID: 0301
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-8:5 info: SanDisk Ultra type: mass storage driver: usb-storage
interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
power: 896mA chip-ID: 0781:5581 class-ID: 0806
serial: <filter>
- Expands Component report, shows size / majāmin of components
and devices, and mapped name for logical components. Puts each
component/device on its own line.
- Adds majāmin to LV and other devices.
-m - Expands volts to include curr/min/max values even if they are
all identical.
- Adds RAM module firmware version, if detected. Not common.
- Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of
driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If no
non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it
lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, itās
just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe genā
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items
different from primary shown).
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds Info: line (-n, -i only), with running network type serā
vices:. Note not all services are daemons. For example, Networkā
Manager can be started with --no-daemon flag.
-o - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
- Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, partiā
tion table, e.g.
raw-size: 60.00 GiB.
- Adds percent of raw size available to size: item, e.g.
size: 58.81 GiB (98.01%).
Note that used: 16.44 GiB (34.3%) percent refers to the available
size, not the raw size.
- Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root
and blockdev).
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-r - Adds to Packages: report. See -Ia
-R - Adds device kernel major:minor number (mdraid, Linux only).
- Adds, if available, component size, major:minor number (Linux
only). Turns Component report to 1 component per line.
-S - Adds alternate kernel clock sources, if available (Linux only).
- Adds kernel boot parameters to Kernel section (if detected).
Support varies by OS type.
- Adds advanced desktop (info:) item, and version. Currently supā
ports KDE Frameworks and version.
- Adds other available (avail:) screensavers/lockers in tools:
section. These are ones installed, but not necessarily active or
running.
- Adds PCI children of the main slot bus ID, and their types and
class IDs, recursively. Linux only, and only if detected. Sample:
Slot: 0
type: PCIe
lanes: 16
status: in use
length: long
volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:03.1
children:
1: 07:00.0
class-ID: 0300
type: display
2: 07:00.1
class-ID: 0403
type: audio
ADVANCED OPTIONS
Bypass Perl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
Bypass Curl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
Bypass Fetch as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
Bypass Wget as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, OpenBSD only: ftp
Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. This basiā
cally forces the downloader selection to use Perl 5.x HTTP::Tiny,
which is generally slower than Curl or Wget but it may help byā
pass issues with downloading.
[bluetoothctl|bt-adapter|btmgmt|hciconfig|rfkill]
See --force [tool name]. Used to set -E report tool.
Will try to get display data out of X (does not usually work as
root user). Default gets display info from display :0. If you
use the format --display :1 then it would get it from display 1
instead, or any display you specify.
Note that in some cases, --display will cause inxi to hang endā
lessly when running the option in console with Intel graphics.
The situation regarding other free drivers such as nouveau/ATI is
currently unknown. It may be that this is a bug with the Intel
graphics driver - more information is required.
You can test this easily by running the following command out of
X/display server: glxinfo -display :0
If it hangs, --display will not work.
Shortcut. See --force dmidecode.
Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.
Various force options to allow users to override defaults. Values
can be given as a comma separated list:
inxi -MJ --force dmidecode,lsusb
- bluetoothctl - Force use of bluetoothctl in -E.
- bt-adapter - Force use of bt-adapter tool in -E.
- btmgmt - Force use of btmgmt tool in -E.
- colors - Do not remove colors from piped or redirected output.
Same as -Y -2.
- cpuinfo - Force use of cpuinfo over sys for cpu data in -C.
- dig - Temporary override of NO_DIG configuration item. Only use
to test w/wo dig. Restores default behavior for WAN IP, which is
use dig if present.
- dmidecode - Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys
data in some lines, e.g. -M or -B.
- egl - Force use of EGL graphics API even if internal rules
block it from running due to possible hanging. This is the case
sometimes with Intel 32 bit Pentium 4 era Gen2 and older GPUs,
but itās not consistent.
- hciconfig - Force use of hciconfig tool in -E.
- hddtemp - Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for
disks.
- html-wan - Temporary override of NO_HTML_WAN configuration
item. Only use to test w/wo HTML downloaders for WAN IP. Restores
default behavior for WAN IP, which is use HTML downloader if
present and if dig failed.
- ifconfig - Force use of IF tool ifconfig for -i.
- ip - Force use of IF ip tool for -i (default).
- kscreen - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source kscreenāconā
sole.
- lsusb - Forces the USB data generator to use lsusb as data
source (default). Overrides USB_SYS in user configuration
file(s).
- man - Force update / install of man page with -U if pinxi or
using -U 3 dev branch. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by
maintainers). Default is to install always for inxi, and not for
pinxi.
- no-dig - Overrides default use of dig to get WAN IP address.
Allows use of normal downloader tool to get IP addresses. Only
use if dig is failing, since dig is much faster and more reliable
in general than other methods.
- no-doas - Skips the use of doas to run certain internal feaā
tures (like hddtemp, file) with doas. Not related to running inxi
itself with doas/sudo or super user. Some systems will register
errors which will then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if
you want to disable regular user use of doas (which requires conā
figuration to setup anyway for these options) just use this opā
tion, or NO_DOAS configuration item. See --no-sudo if you need to
disable both types.
- no-egl - Skip eglinfo sourced EGL graphics API in -G. Use if
Graphics hangs or running a debugger data set which hangs due to
eglinfo bug ( only found on ancient Pentium 4 w/ Gen 2 GPUs).
- no-graphics-api - Skip graphics API in -G.
- no-html-wan - Overrides use of HTML downloaders to get WAN IP
address. Use either only dig, or do not get wan IP. Only use if
dig is failing, and the HTML downloaders are taking too long, or
are hanging or failing.
Make permanent with NO_HTML_WAN=ātrueā
- no-man - Disables man page install with -U for master and acā
tive development branches. (Only active if -U is is not disabled
by maintainers). No man install is default for pinxi. Man install
is default for inxi.
- no-opengl - Skip glxinfo sourced OpenGL graphics API in -G.
- no-ssl - Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions
(-U, -w, -i). Use if your system does not have current SSL cerā
tificate lists, or if you have problems making a connection for
any reason. Works with Wget, Curl, Perl HTTP::Tiny and Fetch.
- no-sudo - Skips the use of sudo to run certain internal feaā
tures (like hddtemp, file) with sudo. Not related to running inxi
itself with sudo or superuser. Some systems will register errors
which will then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if you
want to disable regular user use of sudo (which requires configuā
ration to setup anyway for these options) just use this option,
or NO_SUDO configuration item.
- no-vulkan - Skip vulkaninfo sourced Vulkan graphics API in -G.
- rfkill - Force use of rfkill tool in -E. rfkill does not supā
port mac address data.
- rpm, pkg - Override disabled rpm package counts on primarily
rpm run systems due to unacceptably slow execution times for this
command on some systems:
rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature
Even on newer rpm systems, in virtual machines, running rpm packā
age list query takes more than 0.15 seconds (compared to 0.01 to
0.05 for dpkg, pacman, pkgtool etc) for just this single feature,
which is north of 10% of total execution time for inxi -bar. On
bare metal this can hit 1 second or more in our tests. Older
systems have taken up to 30 seconds to run this command!
For systems that support running rpm along with the primary packā
age installer (dpkg/apt, pacman, and pkgtool/slackpkg), there are
not going to be many rpms, if any, installed, so the command runs
in those cases (if inxi can determine it is running in that type
of system).
- sensors-sys - Force use of /sys/class/hwmon data for sensors
(excluding ipmi sensors, which are their own line if present),
skip lm-sensors. Generally useful for testing since sys data is
used if no lm-sensors data was found anyway, but if lm-sensors
was installed, and returned no data, itās most likely if not
nearly certain that /sys will also not return data.
- swaymsg - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source swaymsg.
- udevadm - Forces use of udevadm as data source (currently -m
RAM data).
- usb-sys - Forces the USB data generator to use /sys as data
source instead of lsusb (Linux only).
- vmstat - Forces use of vmstat for memory data.
- wayland - Wayland: Force use of Wayland data sources, disables
x tools glxinfo, xrandr, xdpyinfo.
- wl-info - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wayland-info or
weston-info.
- wlr-randr - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wlr-randr.
- wmctrl - Force System item wm to use wmctrl as data source,
override default ps source.
Shortcut. See --force hddtemp.
Shortcut. See --force --html-wan.
Shortcut. See --force ifconfig.
Shortcut. See --force no-dig.
Shortcut. See --force no-doas.
Shortcut. See --force no-egl.
Shortcut. See --force no-htmlāwan.
Shortcut. See --force no-man.
Shortcut. See --force no-opengl.
Overrides user set SENSOR_FORCE configuration value. Restores deā
fault behavior.
Shortcut. See --force no-ssl.
Shortcut. See --force no-sudo.
For distro package maintainers only, and only for non apt, rpm,
or pacman based systems. To be used to test replacement package
lists for recommends for that package manager.
Shortcut. See --force rpm.
Overrides configuration values SENSORS_USE or SENSORS_EXCLUDE on
a one time basis.
Linux only. Similar to --sensors-use except removes listed senā
sors from sensor data. Make permanent with SENSORS_EXCLUDE conā
figuration item. Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific
device monitor chips are excluded by default.
Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-exclude k10tempāpciā00c3
Shortcut. See --force sensors-sys
Linux only. Use only the (comma separated) sensor arrays for -s
report. Make permanent with SENSORS_USE configuration item. Senā
sor array ID value must be the exact value shown in lm-sensors
sensors output (lmāsensors only) or use -s --dbg 18 (āmainā =>..
section) to see the sensor ID strings used internally. If you
only want to exclude one (or more) sensors from the report, use
Can be useful if the default sensor data used by inxi is not from
the right sensor array. Note that all other sensor data will be
removed, which may lead to undesired consequences. Please be
aware that this can lead to many undesirable side-effects, since
default behavior is to use all the sensors arrays and select
which values to use from them following a set sequence of rules.
So if you force one to be used, you may lose data that was used
from another one.
Most likely best use is when one (or two) of the sensor arrays
has all the sensor data you want, and you just want to make sure
inxi doesnāt use data from another array that has inaccurate or
misleading data.
Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific device monitor
chips are excluded by default, and should not be added since they
do not provide cpu, board, system, etc, sensor data.
Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-use nct6791āisaā0290,k10tempā
pciā00c3
Usually in decimals. Change CPU sleep time for -C (current:
.35). Sleep is used to let the system catch up and show a more
accurate CPU use. Example:
inxi -Cxxx --sleep 0.15
Overrides default internal value and user configuration value:
CPU_SLEEP=0.25
Forces internal IRC flag to off. Used in unhandled cases where
the program running inxi may not be seen as a shell/pty/tty, but
it is not an IRC client. Put --tty first in option list to avoid
unexpected errors. If you want a specific output width, use the
option. If you want normal color codes in the output, use
the -c [color ID] flag.
The sign you need to use this is extra numbers before the
key/value pairs of the output of your program. These are IRC, not
TTY, color codes. Please post a codeberg.org issue if you find
you need to use --tty (including the full -Ixxx line) so we can
figure out how to add your program to the list of whitelisted
programs.
You can see what inxi believed started it in the -Ixxx line,
Shell: or Client: item. Please let us know what that result was
so we can add it to the parent start program whitelist.
In some cases, you may want to also use --no-filter/-Z option if
you want to see filtered values. Filtering is turned on by deā
fault if inxi believes it is running in an IRC client.
Shortcut. See --force usb-sys
Shortcut. See --force lsusb
Force -i to use supplied URL as WAN IP source. Overrides dig or
default IP source urls. URL must start with http[s] or ftp.
The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last
(non-empty) line of the page content source code.
Same as configuration value (example):
WAN_IP_URL=āhttps://mysite.com/ip.phpā
Shortcut. See --force wayland.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
Accepts one or more comma separated dbg specific debugging numā
bers.
1 - Debug downloader failures. Turns off silent/quiet mode for
curl, wget, and fetch. Shows more downloader action information.
Shows some more information for Perl downloader.
1-xx - See codeberg.org inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt for speā
cific specialized debugging options. There are a lot.
- On screen debugger output.
- Basic logging. Check $XDG_DATA_HOME/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.loā
cal/share/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.inxi/inxi.log.
- Full file/system info logging.
Creates a tar.gz file of system data and collects the inxi report
in a file.
* tree traversal data file(s) read from /proc and /sys, and other
system data.
* xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.
* data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.
Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,
then removes the debug data directory, but leaves the debug
tar.gz file. See --ftp for uploading to alternate locations.
Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,
then removes the debug data directory and the tar.gz file. See
for uploading to alternate locations.
Insert string to file name for debugger. This is helpful so you
can add for instance a username to a debugger dataset to make it
easy to find.
Sample: --debug 22 --debug-id mrmazda
Developer only: Change default location of $fake_data_dir, which
is where files are for --fake {item} items.
For alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
inxi --ftp ftp.yourserver.com/incoming --debug 21
DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES
Only use the following in conjunction with --debug 2[012], and only use
if you experienced a failure or hang, or were instructed to do so.
Force debugger to parse /proc directory data when run as root.
Normally this is disabled due to unpredictable data in /proc
tree.
Use this to locate file that /proc debugger hangs on.
Skip exit on error when running debugger.
Skip /proc debugging in case of a hang.
Skip /sys debugging in case of a hang.
Force PowerPC debugger parsing of /sys as doas/sudo/root.
Use this to locate file that /sys debugger hangs on.
SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS
BitchX, Gaim/Pidgin, ircII, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KSirc, KVIrc,
Weechat, and Xchat. Plus any others that are capable of displaying eiā
ther built-in or external program output.
RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT
To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method
from the list below:
Hexchat, XChat, Irssi
(and many other IRC clients) /exec -o inxi [options] If you donāt
include the -o, only you will see the output on your local IRC
client.
Konversation
/cmd inxi [options]
To run inxi in Konversation as a native program if your distribuā
tion or inxi package hasnāt already done this for you, create
this symbolic link:
KDE 4: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversaā
tion/scripts/inxi
KDE 5: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/konversaā
tion/scripts/inxi
If inxi is somewhere else, change the path /usr/local/bin to
wherever it is located.
If you are using KDE/QT 5, then you may also need to add the folā
lowing to get the Konversation /inxi command to work:
ln -s /usr/share/konversation /usr/share/apps/
Make sure you also have the qdbus-qt5 package (Debian/Ubuntu +
derived), qt5-qttools (Fedora/RHEL/SUSE + derived), qt5-tools
(Arch + derived) installed (for KDE 5/QT 5, check distros for fuā
ture package names), qt5-tools (Arch + derived). Check your disā
tro if the program is missing. Depending on the distro,
/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus is required, which in Debian+ is provided
by the above package.
Then you can start inxi directly, like this:
/inxi [options]
WeeChat
NEW: /exec -o inxi [options]
OLD: /shell -o inxi [options]
Newer (2014 and later) WeeChats work pretty much the same now as
other console IRC clients, with /exec -o inxi [options]. Newer
WeeChats have dropped the -curses part of their program name,
i.e.: weechat instead of weechat-curses.
CONFIGURATION FILE
inxi will read its configuration/initialization files in the following
order:
/etc/inxi.conf contains the default configurations. These can be overā
ridden by creating a /etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf file (global override),
which will prevent distro packages from changing or overwriting your edā
its. This method is recommended if you are using a distro packaged inxi
and want to override some global configuration items from the packageās
default /etc/inxi.conf file but donāt want to lose your changes on a
package update.
In case the distro is using either /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc as non
core tool default location, inxi will use those paths instead, with the
inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf override option.
You can also override, per user, with a user configuration file found in
one of the following locations (inxi will store its config file using
the following precedence):
if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if $HOME/.conā
fig/inxi.conf exists, it will go there, and as a last default, the
legacy location is used), i.e.:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inxi.conf > $HOME/.config/inxi.conf >
$HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf > /usr/etc/inxi.conf >
/usr/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /usr/local/etc/inxi.conf > /usr/loā
cal/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf >
/etc/inxi.conf
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
See the documentation page for more complete information on how to set
these up, and for a complete list of options:
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm
Basic Options
Hereās a brief overview of the basic options you are likely to
want to use:
COLS_MAX_CONSOLE The max display column width on terminal. If
terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width, wrapā
ping of line starter occurs
COLS_MAX_IRC The max display column width on IRC clients.
COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY The max display column width in out of X /
Wayland / desktop / window manager.
CPU_SLEEP Decimal value 0 or more. Default is usually around 0.35
seconds. Time that inxi will āsleepā before getting CPU speed
data, so that it reflects actual system state.
DOWNLOADER Sets default inxi downloader: curl, fetch, ftp, perl,
wget. See --recommends output for more information on downloadā
ers and Perl downloaders.
FILTER_STRING Default <filter>. Any string you prefer to see inā
stead for filtered values.
INDENT Change primary indent width of wide mode output. See --inā
dent.
INDENTS Change primary indents of narrow wrapped mode output, and
second level indents. See --indents.
LIMIT Overrides default of 10 IP addresses per IF. This is only
of interest to sys admins running servers with many IP addresses.
LINES_MAX Values: [-2-xxx]. See -Y for explanation and values.
Use -Y -3 to restore default unlimited output lines. Avoid using
this in general unless the machine is a headless system and you
want the output to be always controlled.
MAX_WRAP (or WRAP_MAX) The maximum width where the line starter
wraps to its own line. If terminal/console width or --width is
less than wrap width, wrapping of line starter occurs. Overrides
default. See --max-wrap. If 80 or less, wrap will never happen.
NO_DIG Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of dig and force
use of alternate downloaders.
NO_DOAS Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of doas.
NO_HTML_WAN Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of HTML Downā
loaders and force use of dig only, or nothing if dig disabled as
well. Same as --no-html-wan. Only use if dig is failing, and HTML
downloaders are hanging.
NO_SUDO Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of sudo.
PARTITION_SORT Overrides default partition report sort. See
PS_COUNT The default number of items showing per -t type, m or c.
Default is 5.
SENSORS_CPU_NO In cases of ambiguous temp1/temp2 (inxi canāt figā
ure out which is the CPU), forces sensors to use either value 1
or 2 as CPU temperature. See the above configuration page on
smxi.org for full info.
SENSORS_EXCLUDE Exclude supplied sensor array[s] from sensor reā
port. Override with --sensors-default. See --sensors-exclude.
SENSORS_USE Use only supplied sensor array[s]. Override with
SEP2_CONSOLE Replaces default key / value separator of ā:ā. Test
with --separator.
USB_SYS Forces all USB data to use /sys instead of lsusb.
WAN_IP_URL Forces -i to use supplied URL, and to not use dig (dig
is generally much faster). URL must begin with http or ftp. Note
that if you use this, the downloader set tests will run each time
you start inxi whether a downloader feature is going to be used
or not.
The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last
(non-empty) line of the URLās page content source code.
Same as --wan-ip-url [URL]
WEATHER_SOURCE Values: [0ā9]. Same as --weather-source. Values
4-9 are not currently supported, but this can change at any time.
WEATHER_UNIT Values: [m|i|mi|im]. Same as --weather-unit.
Color Options
Itās best to use the -c [94-99] color selector tool to set the
following values because it will correctly update the configuraā
tion file and remove any invalid or conflicting items, but if you
prefer to create your own configuration files, here are the opā
tions. All take the integer value from the options available in
NOTE: All default and configuration file set color values are reā
moved when output is piped or redirected. You must use the exā
plicit -c [color number] option if you want colors to be present
in the piped/redirected output (creating a PDF for example).
CONSOLE_COLOR_SCHEME The color scheme for console output (not in
X/Wayland).
GLOBAL_COLOR_SCHEME Overrides all other color schemes.
IRC_COLOR_SCHEME Desktop X/Wayland IRC CLI color scheme.
IRC_CONS_COLOR_SCHEME Out of X/Wayland, IRC CLI color scheme.
IRC_X_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME In X/Wayland IRC client terminal color
scheme.
VIRT_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME Color scheme for virtual terminal output
(in X/Wayland).
Developer Options
These are useful only for developers.
FAKE_DATA_DIR - change default fake data directory location. See
BUGS
Please report bugs using the following resources.
You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool (see --debug 21/22),
which will upload a data dump of system files for use in debugging inxi.
These data dumps are very important since they provide us with all the
real system data inxi uses to parse out its report.
Issue Report
File an issue report: https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi/issues
Forums Post on inxi forums: https://techpatterns.com/forums/foā
rum-33.html
IRC irc.oftc.net / irc.libera.chat
You can also visit channel: #smxi to post issues on either netā
work.
HOMEPAGE
https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi
- Home of inxi source repository
https://codeberg.org/smxi/pinxi
- Home of pinxi (inxi development version), docs and data.
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
- The main docs for inxi. See pinxi repository for more technical reā
sources.
https://fosstodon.org/@smxi
- Follow @smxi on Mastodon!
AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE
inxi is a fork of locsmifās very clever infobash script.
Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007
Michiel de Boer aka locsmif
inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-2025 Harald Hope
This man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and is
maintained by Harald Hope (aka h2 or TechAdmin).
Initial CPU logic, konversation version logic, occasional maintenance
fixes, and the initial xiin.py tool for /sys parsing (obsolete, but
still very much appreciated for all the valuable debugger data it helped
generate): Scott Rogers
Further fixes (listed as known):
Horst Tritremmel <hjt at sidux.com>
Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - USB audio patch; swap percent used
patch.
Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode -M patch for older systems with no /sys.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING
The nice people at irc.oftc.net channels #linux-smokers-club and #smxi,
who all really have to be considered to be co-developers because of
their non-stop enthusiasm and willingness to provide real-time testing
and debugging of inxi development over the years.
LinuxQuestions.org Slackware forum members, for major help with developā
ment and debugging new or refactored features, particularly the redone
CPU logic of 2021-12.
Siduction forum members, who have helped get some features working by
providing a large number of datasets that have revealed possible variaā
tions, particularly for the RAM -m option.
AntiX users and admins, who have helped greatly with testing and debugā
ging, particularly for the 3.0.0 release.
ArcherSeven (Max), Brett Bohnenkamper (aka KittyKatt), and Iotaka, who
always manage to find the weirdest or most extreme hardware and setups
that help make inxi much more robust.
For the vastly underrated skill of report error/glitch catching, Pete
Haddow. His patience and focus in going through inxi repeatedly to find
errors and inconsistencies is much appreciated.
For a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of testing
and setup many remote access systems for testing and development.
For testing, bug finding, suggestions, feature requests, MrMazda. He has
over the years has helped shape inxi into what it is today, in particuā
lar but not limited to, the Graphics features.
All the inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum moderaā
tors, and in particular, sys admins with their particular issues, which
almost always help make inxi better, and any others who contribute
ideas, suggestions, and patches.
Without a wide range of diverse Linux kernel-based Free Desktop systems
to test on, we could never have gotten inxi to be as reliable and solid
as itās turning out to be.
And of course, a big thanks to locsmif, who figured out a lot of the
core ideas, logic, and tricks originally used in inxi Gawk/Bash.
inxi 3.3.39 2025-08-29 INXI(1)
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