INXI(1) inxi manual INXI(1)
NAME
inxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi
inxi [-AbBCdDEfFGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUVwyYzZ]
inxi [-c -NUMBER] [--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]
[--sensors-default] [--slots]
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 script built for console and
IRC. It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to
quickly ascertain users' system configurations and hardware. inxi shows
system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, gcc version(s),
Processes, RAM usage, and a wide variety of other useful information.
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.
Script 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 auto-
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 (-Fz, 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.
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 output per pri-
mary data type.
* ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -a adds to the output 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 of-
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 us-
ing.
* CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Most of the commonly used configuration op-
tions, along with sample values.
* BUGS How and where to report bugs.
* HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOL-
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, ex-
cept when using -t. Note that if you use an option that requires an
additional argument, that must be last in the short form group of op-
tions. Otherwise you can use those separately as well.
For example: inxi -AG | inxi -A -G | inxi -b | inxi -c10 | inxi
-FxxzJy90 | inxi -bay
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
-A , --audio
Show Audio/sound device(s) information, including device driver.
Shows active sound API(s) and sound server(s).
Supported servers/APIs: ALSA, JACK, OSS, NAS, PipeWire, PulseAu-
dio, RoarAudio, sndio.
Use -Ax to show all sound APIs/servers detected, including inac-
tive, -Axx to see API/Server helper daemons/plugin/modules, and
-Aa to see API/sound server tools.
Audio:
Device-1: C-Media 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
-b , --basic
Show basic output, short form. Same as: inxi -v 2
-B , --battery
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 battery
state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when using /sys or
sysctl data.
Note that for charge:, the output 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 following example, the actual current
available capacity of the battery is 22.2 Wh.
charge: 20.1 Wh (95.4%)
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%)
With -x, or if voltage difference is critical, volts: item shows
the current voltage, and the min: voltage. Note that if the current is
below the minimum listed the battery is essentially dead and will not charge.
Test that to confirm, but that's technically how it's supposed to work.
volts: 12.0 min: 11.4
With -x shows attached Device-x information (mouse, keyboard,
etc.) if they are battery powered.
--bluetooth
See -E.
-c , --color
See OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS.
--config, --configuration
Show active configuration values, by file, and exit.
-C , --cpu
Show full CPU output (if each item available): basic CPU topology, 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 alternate
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
-d , --disk-full,--optical
Show optical drive data as well as -D hard drive data. With -x,
adds a feature line to the output. Also shows floppy disks if
present. Note that there is no current way to get any informa-
tion 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.
-D , --disk
Show Hard Disk info. Shows total disk space and used percentage.
The disk used percentage includes space used by swap parti-
tion(s), since those are not usable for data storage. Also, un-
mounted partitions are not counted in disk 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 disk information: Disk ID, type (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.
-E, --bluetooth
Show bluetooth device(s), drivers. Show Report: with HCI ID,
state, address per device (requires bt-adapter or hciconfig),
and if available (hciconfig only) bluetooth version (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, it's possible
that it has been disabled, if you try enabling it using for ex-
ample:
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
--edid
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
separated list.
- Shows EDID errors and warnings if any present.
--filter, -z
See FILTER OPTIONS.
-f , --flags
Show all CPU flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with
-F in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show features items.
-F , --full
Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters
(except -J and -W) plus --swap, -s and -n. Does not show extra
verbose options such as -d -f -i -J -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x un-
less you use those arguments in the command, e.g.: inxi -Frmxx
--gpu Deprecated. See -G -a.
-G , --graphics
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) driv-
ers, and active gpu: drivers), display protocol (if available),
display server (and/or Wayland compositor), vendor and version
number, 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, re-
gardless of protocol.
Also shows screen resolution(s) (per monitor/X screen). Shows
graphics API used, like OpenGL. For X.org: OpenGL renderer,
OpenGL core profile version/OpenGL version; for VESA: data (for
Xvesa); for Wayland: GBM/EGL data (not implemented).
Compositor information will show if detected using -xx option or
always if detected and Wayland since the compositor is the
server with Wayland.
-Gxx shows monitor data as well, if detected. --edid shows ad-
vanced monitor data (full modes, chroma, etc.).
-h , --help
The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal win-
dow. Set script global COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a different
default value, or use -y [width] to temporarily override the de-
faults or actual window width.
-i , --ip
Show WAN IP address and local interfaces (latter requires ifcon-
fig or ip network tool), as well as network output from -n. Not
shown with -F for user security reasons. You shouldn't paste
your local/WAN IP. Shows both IPv4 and IPv6 link IP addresses.
-I , --info
Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, IRC client (or
shell type if run in shell, not IRC), inxi version. See -Ix,
-Ixx, and -Ia for extra information (init type/version, run-
level/target, packages).
Note: if -m is used or triggered, the memory item will show in
the main Memory: report of -m, not in Info:.
Raspberry Pi only: uses vcgencmd get_mem gpu to get gpu RAM
amount, if user is in video group and vcgencmd is installed.
Uses this result to increase the Memory: amount and used:
amounts.
-j, --swap
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.
-J , --usb
Show USB data for attached Hubs and Devices. Hubs also show num-
ber of ports. Be aware that a port is not always external, some
may be internal, and either used or unused (for example, a moth-
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]:De-
viceID
Device ID is a number created by the kernel, and has no neces-
sary ordering or sequence connection, but can be used to match
this output to lsusb values, which generally shows BusID / Devi-
ceID (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.
-l , --label
Show partition labels. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show par-
tition labels. Does nothing without one of those options.
Sample: -ojpl.
-L, --logical
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 it's redundant. If -R is not used, a sim-
ple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in -Lxx.
-Lxx also shows all components and devices. Note that since com-
ponents can go in many levels, each level per primary component
is indicated by either another 'c', or ends with a 'p' device,
the physical device. The number of c's or p's indicates the
depth, so you can see which component belongs to which.
-L shows only the top level components/devices (like -R). -La
shows component/device size, maj:min ID, mapped name (if appli-
cable), 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
-y1. 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]:
-m , --memory
Memory (RAM) data. Does not display with -b or -F unless you use
-m explicitly. Ordered by system board physical system memory
array(s) (Array-[number]), and individual memory devices (De-
vice-[number]). Physical memory array data shows array capac-
ity, number of devices supported, and Error Correction informa-
tion. Devices shows locator data (highly variable in syntax),
type (eg: type: DDR3)size, speed.
Note: -m uses dmidecode, which must be run as root (or start
inxi with doas/sudo), unless you figure out how to set up
doas/sudo to permit dmidecode to read /dev/mem as user. speed
and bus-width will not show if No Module Installed is found in
size.
Note: If -m is triggered RAM total/used report will appear in
this section, not in -I or -tm items.
Because dmidecode data is extremely 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 specifica-
tions 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 present, or
max capacity.
Under dmidecode, Speed: is the expected speed of the memory
(what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured
Clock Speed: is 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:
RAM: total: 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
report.
--memory-modules, --mm
Memory (RAM) data. Show only RAM arrays and modules in Memory
report. Skip empty slots. See -m.
--memory-short, --ms
Memory (RAM) data. Show a one line RAM report in Memory. See -m.
Sample: Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4
-M , --machine
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
using dmidecode, may also show BIOS/UEFI revision as well as
version. --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 it's usually a VM, but inxi
failed to detect which type, or positively confirm which VM it
is. Primary 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 de-
tected. If you get an incorrect output, post an issue and we'll
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.
-n , --network-advanced
Show Advanced Network device information in addition to that
produced by -N. Shows interface, speed, MAC ID, state, etc.
-N , --network
Show Network device(s) information, including device driver.
With -x, shows Bus ID, Port number.
--nvidia, --nv
Deprecated. See -Ga.
-o , --unmounted
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 ar-
ray) of md-raid arrays.
To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),
use with -l or -u.
-p , --partitions-full
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.
-P , --partitions
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.
--processes
See -t.
-r , --repos
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)
EOPKG (Solus)
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)
SCRATCHPKG (Venom + derived versions)
SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
TCE (TinyCore)
URPMI (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
missing please show us how to get this information and we'll try
to add it.
See -rx, -rxx, and -ra for installed package count information.
-R , --raid
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 nu-
merator 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 re-
porting tools.
--recommends
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.
-s , --sensors
Show output from sensors if sensors installed/configured: Moth-
erboard/CPU/GPU temperatures; detected fan speeds. GPU tempera-
ture 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 (cur-
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 in-
stalled. You can compare the two by using --force sensors-sys
option with -s.
--slots
Show PCI slots with type, speed, and status information.
--swap
See -j
-S , --system
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.
-t , --processes
[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).
-t c - CPU only. With -x, also shows memory for that process on same
line.
-t 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.
-t cm - CPU+memory. With -x, shows also CPU or memory for that process
on same line.
-u , --uuid
Show partition UUIDs. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show parti-
tion labels. Does nothing without one of those options.
Sample: -opju.
-U , --update
Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function.
If inxi -h has no listing for -U then it's disabled.
Auto-update script. Note: if you installed as root, you must be
root to update, otherwise user is fine. Also installs / updates
this man page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if /usr/lo-
cal/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
--man or --no-man to force or disable man install.
--usb
See -J.
-V, --version
inxi full version and license information. Prints information
then exits.
--version-short, --vs
inxi single line version information. Prints information if not
short form (which shows version info already). Does not exit un-
less used without any other options. Can be used with normal
line options.
-v , --verbosity
Script verbosity levels. If no verbosity level number is given,
0 is assumed. Should not be used with -b or -F.
Supported levels: 0-8 Examples : inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4
-v 0 - Short output, same as: inxi
-v 1 - Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU (cores, type, average clock
speed, and min/max speeds, if available) + -G + basic Disk + -I.
-v 2 - Adds networking device (-N), Machine (-M) data, Battery (-B)
(if available). Same as: inxi -b
-v 3 - Adds advanced CPU (-C) and network (-n) data; triggers -x ad-
vanced data option.
-v 4 - Adds partition size/used data (-P) for (if present): / /home
/var/ /boot. Shows full disk data (-D)
-v 5 - Adds audio device (-A), memory/RAM (-m), bluetooth data (-E)
(if present), sensors (-s), RAID data (if present), partition
label (-l), UUID (-u), full swap data (-j), and short form of
optical drives.
-v 6 - Adds full mounted partition data (-p), unmounted partition
data (-o), optical drive data (-d), USB (-J); triggers -xx extra
data option.
-v 7 - Adds network IP data (-i), forced bluetooth (-E), Logical
(-L), RAID (-R), full CPU flags/features (-f), triggers -xxx
-v 8 - All system data available. Adds advanced EDID data (--edid),
Repos (-r), PCI slots (--slots), processes (-tcm), admin (--ad-
min). Useful for testing output and to see what data you can get
from your system.
-w , --weather
Adds weather line. To get weather for an alternate location, use
-W [location]. See also -x, -xx, -xxx options. Please note that
your distribution's maintainer may chose to disable this fea-
ture.
DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated
or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any fur-
ther access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather
monitoring, 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, it's an automated re-
quest.
-W, --weather-location [location_string]
Get weather/time for an alternate location. Accepts postal/zip
code[, country], city,state pair, or latitude,longitude. Note:
city/country/state names must not contain spaces. Replace spaces
with '+' sign. Don't place spaces around any commas. Postal code
is not reliable except for North America and maybe the UK. Try
postal codes with and without country code added. Note that
City,State applies only to USA, otherwise it's 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 95623,us OR -W Boston,MA OR -W 45.5234,-122.6762 OR
-W new+york,ny OR -W bodo,norway.
DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated
or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any fur-
ther access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather
monitoring, 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, it's an automated re-
quest.
--weather-source, --ws [unit]
[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.
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.
--weather-unit [unit]
[m|i|mi|im] Sets weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), met-
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.
--filter , --filter-override
See -z, -Z.
--filter-label, --filter-uuid, --filter-vulnerabilities
See --zl, --zu, --zv.
--host Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file
value (if set):
SHOW_HOST='false' - Same as: SHOW_HOST='true'
This is an absolute override, the host will always show no mat-
ter what other switches you use.
--no-host
Turns off hostname in System line. This is default when using
-z, for anonymizing inxi output for posting on forums or IRC.
Overrides configuration value (if set):
SHOW_HOST='true' - Same as: SHOW_HOST='false'
This is an absolute override, the host will not show no matter
what other switches you use.
-z, --filter
Adds security filters for IP addresses, serial numbers, MAC, lo-
cation (-w), and user home directory name. Removes Host:. On by
default for IRC clients.
--za, --filter-all
Shortcut to trigger -z, --zl, --zu, --zv. All the filters, that
is.
--zl, --filter-label
Filter partition label names from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa
(root=LABEL=...). Generally only useful in very specialized
cases.
--zu, --filter-uuid
Filter partition UUIDs from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa
(root=UUID=...). Generally only useful in very specialized
cases.
--zv, --filter-v, --filter-vulnerabilities
Filter Vulnerabilities report from -Ca. Generally only useful in
very specialized cases.
-Z , --filter-override , --no-filter
Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging net-
working issues in IRC for example.
OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
The following options allow for modifying the output in various ways.
-c , --color [0-42]
Set color scheme. If no scheme number is supplied, 0 is assumed.
-c [94-99]
These color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi
starting which lets you set the config file value for the selec-
tion.
NOTE: All configuration file set color values are removed when
output is piped or redirected. You must use the explicit runtime
-c [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):
-c 94 - Console, out of X.
-c 95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.
-c 96 - GUI IRC, running in X - like XChat, Quassel, Konversation etc.
-c 97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.
-c 98 - Console IRC not in X.
-c 99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.
Setting a specific color type removes the global color selec-
tion.
--export [json|screen|xml]
See --output.
--indent [11-xx]
Change primary wide indent width. Generally useless. Only ap-
plied if output width is greater than max wrap width (see
--max-wrap). Use configuration item INDENT to make permanent.
--indents [0-10]
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
permanent.
--limit [-1 - x]
Raise or lower max output limit of IP addresses for -i. -1 re-
moves limit.
--max-wrap, --wrap-max [integer]
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 in-
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 configu-
ration value MAX_WRAP.
--output, --export [json|screen|xml]
Change data output type. Requires --output-file if not screen.
See this page https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-json-xml-output.htm BE-
FORE you post an issue about not understanding, or being unable
to use, the output format! That gives a fairly complete explana-
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
don't know how to work with json/xml structures using a proper
language, then this feature is not meant for you.
--output-file, --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).
--partition-sort [dev-base|fs|id|label|percent-used|size|uuid|used]
Change default sort order of partition output. Corresponds to
PARTITION_SORT configuration item. These are the available sort
options:
dev-base - /dev partition identifier, like /dev/sda1. Note that
it's an alphabetic sort, so sda12 is before sda2.
fs - Partition filesystem. Note that sorts will be somewhat ran-
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 - Percentage of partition size used.
size - KiB size of partition.
uuid - UUID of the partition.
used - KiB used of partition.
--separator, --sep [character(s)]
Change the default output key: value separator : to something
else. Make permanent with configuration item SEP2_CONSOLE.
--wrap-max [integer]
See --max-wrap.
-y, --width [integer]
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 [60-xxx] - 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 out-
put). Not recommended for use with -Y;
* -y -1 - removes width limits (if assigned by configuration
items).
Examples:
inxi -Fxx -y 130
inxi -Fxxy
inxi -bay1
-Y, --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:, Sys-
tem:) at a time. Useful for very long outputs like -Fa, -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 exam-
ple. This does not limit the height otherwise since the expecta-
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 it's 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:
-y 1 -Y 20 instead of: -y 1 -Y
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; -v 7 adds -xxx
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:
-x, -xx, -xxx
OR
--extra 1, --extra 2, --extra 3
The following details show which lines / items display extra informa-
tion for each extra data level.
-x -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
device.
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds inactive sound servers/APIs, if detected.
-x -B - 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 volt-
age, shows without -x.
-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 don't do that.
- Adds boost: [enabled|disabled] if detected, aka turbo. Not all
CPUs have this feature.
- Adds CPU Flags (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 microarchi-
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 it's
enabled. 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.
-x -d - Adds more items to Features line of optical drive; dds rev
version to optical drive.
-x -D - Adds drive temperature with disk data.
Method 1: Systems running Linux kernels ~5.6 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/mod-
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 sup-
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 hd-
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.
-x -E (--bluetooth)
- 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, and hciconfig only) LMP (HCI if no LMP
data, and HCI if HCI/LMP versions are different) version (if
available) for each HCI ID.
-x -G - Adds GPU micro-architecture (if AMD/Intel/Nvidia and de-
tected).
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows
specific vendor [product] information.
- X.org: Adds direct rendering status.
- X.org: Adds (for single GPU, nvidia driver) screen number that
GPU is running on.
- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
-x -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 dep-
recated IP v6 scope site/global temporary addresses from the
output 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 depre-
cated, 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 val-
ues, as with global temporary, and global temporary deprecated.
ip-v6-unknown - unknown scope
-x -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 gcc. With -xx, also show other installed
gcc versions.
- Adds current runlevel/target (not available with all init sys-
tems).
- Adds total packages discovered in system. See -xx and -a for
per package manager types output. Moves to Repos if -rx.
If your package manager is not supported, please file an issue
and we'll 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 num-
ber, if available.
-x -j, -x --swap
Add mapper:. See -x -o.
-x -J (--usb)
- For Devices, adds driver(s).
-x -L, -x --logical
- Adds dm: dm-x to VG > LV and other Device types. This can help
tracking down which device belongs to what.
-x -m, --memory-modules
- If present, adds maximum memory module/device size in the Ar-
ray line. Only some systems will have this data available.
Shows estimate if it can generate one.
-x -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
device;
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
-x -o, -x -p, -x -P
- Adds mapper: (the /dev/mapper/ partition ID) if mapped parti-
tion.
Example: ID-4: /home ... dev: /dev/dm-6 mapped: ar0-home
-x -r - Adds Package info. See -Ix
-x -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.
-x -s - Adds basic voltages: 12v, 5v, 3.3v, vbat (ipmi, lm-sensors /
/sys/class/hwmon if present).
-x -S - Adds Kernel gcc version.
- Adds to Distro: base: if detected. System base will only be
seen on a subset of distributions. The distro must be both de-
rived from a parent distro (e.g. Mint from Ubuntu), and explic-
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
distribution system base detection.
-x --slots
- Adds slot bus-ID:, if found.
-x -t (--processes)
- Adds memory use output to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory
(-xt m).
-x -w , -W
- Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
- Adds wind speed and direction.
-xx -A - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, if detected).
- Adds with: [item] status: [state/plugin] helper daemons/plug-
ins for the sound API/server.
-xx -B - Adds serial number.
-xx -D - Adds disk serial number.
- Adds disk 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
report SATA 2 speeds, but this is not completely consistent,
sometimes 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 disk duid, if available. Some BSDs have it.
-xx -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
- Adds (hciconfig only) LMP subversion (and/or HCI revision if
applicable) for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe blue-
tooth, which is rare).
-xx -G Triggers much more complete Screen/Monitor output.
X.org: requires xdpyinfo or xrandr, and the advanced per monitor
feature requires xrandr.
Wayland: requires any tool capable of showing monitor and reso-
lution information. Sway has swaymsg, weston-info or way-
land-info can show Wayland information on any Wayland composi-
tor, and wlr-randr can show Wayland information for any wlroots
based compositor.
Further note that all references to Displays, Screens, and Moni-
tors are referring to the X or Wayland technical terms, not nor-
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 con-
tain 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 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 d-rect: 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, it's 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 ex-
plicitly 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 Dis-
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 s-res (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 it's different in some ways. Note
that the physical monitor dpi and the Xorg dpi are not necessar-
ily 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 moni-
tors. Normally a dual monitor setup is 2 monitors run by one
Xorg Screen/Wayland Display.
- 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 ei-
ther explicit primary value or +0+0 position if no primary moni-
tor value set. pos: does not show for single monitor setups, or
if no position data was found.
Position is text (left, center, center-l, center-r, right, top,
top-left, top-center, top-right, middle, middle-c, middle-r,
bottom, 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 monitor's 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 com-
posed 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 free drivers, adds OpenGL compatibility version number if
available. For nonfree drivers, the core version and compatibil-
ity versions are usually the same. Example:
v: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 compat-v: 3.0
-xx -I - Adds init type version number (and rc if present).
- Adds other detected installed gcc versions (if present).
- Adds system default runlevel/target, if detected. Supports
Systemd / Upstart /SysVinit type defaults.
- Shows Packages: counts by discovered package manager types
(pm:). In cases where only 1 pm had results, does not show to-
tal after Packages:. Does not show installed package managers
with 0 packages. See -a for full output. Moves to Repos if -rxx.
- Adds parent program (or pty/tty) that started shell, if not
IRC client.
-xx -j (--swap), -xx -p, -xx -P
- Adds swap priority to each swap partition (for -P) used, and
for all swap types (for -j).
-xx -J (--usb)
- Adds vendor:chip id.
-xx -L, -xx --logical
- Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta
data volumes.
- Adds full list of Components, sub-components, and their physi-
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
'stripes'.
-xx -m, --memory-modules
- 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
order that data is found in dmidecode output for type 6 and type
17.
- Adds, if present, memory array voltage. Only some legacy sys-
tems will have this data available.
- Adds memory module current configured operating voltage, if
available.
-xx -M - Adds chassis information, if data is available. Also shows
BIOS ROM size if using dmidecode.
-xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device
and detected).
-xx -r - Adds to Packages: info. See -Ixx
-xx -R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present) and algorithm. If
resync, shows progress bar.
- Hardware RAID: Adds Chip vendor:product ID.
-xx -s - Adds DIMM/SOC voltages, if present (ipmi only).
-xx -S - Adds display manager (dm) type, if present. If none, shows
N/A. Supports most known display managers, including gdm, gdm3,
idm, kdm, lightdm, lxdm, mdm, nodm, sddm, slim, tint, wdm, and
xdm.
- Adds, if run in X, window manager type (wm), if available. Not
all window managers are supported. Some desktops support using
more than one window manager, so this can be useful to see what
window manager is actually running. If none found, shows noth-
ing. Uses a less accurate fallback tool wmctrl if ps tests fail
to find data.
- Adds desktop toolkit (tk), if available (Xfce/KDE/Trinity).
-xx --slots
- Adds slot length.
- Adds slot voltage, if available.
-xx -w , -W
- Adds wind chill, heat index, and dew point, if available.
- Adds cloud cover, rain, snow, or precipitation (amount in pre-
vious hour to observation time), if available.
-xxx -A
- Adds, if present, serial number.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
-xxx -B
- Adds battery chemistry (e.g. Li-ion), cycles (NOTE: there ap-
pears to be a problem with the Linux kernel obtaining the cycle
count, so this almost always shows 0. There's nothing that can
be done about this glitch, the data is simply not available as
of 2018-04-03), location (only available from dmidecode derived
output).
- Adds attached device rechargeable: [yes|no] information.
-xxx -C
- Adds CPU voltage and external clock speed (this is the mother-
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.
-xxx -D
- Adds disk firmware revision number (if available).
- Adds disk 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 disk type (HDD/SSD), rotation speed (in some but not all
cases), e.g. type: HDD rpm: 7200, or type: SSD if positive SSD
identification was made. If no HDD, rotation, or positive SSD ID
found, shows type: N/A. Not all HDD spinning disks report their
speed, so even if they are spinning, no rpm data will show.
-xxx -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
- Adds (hciconfig only) HCI version, revision.
-xxx -G
- 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!
- Adds to Monitors (if detected) frequency (hz:).
- 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
different (1 Xorg Screen / Wayland Display can for instance con-
tain 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).
- Wayland: Adds to Monitors scale: (if detected).
-xxx -I
- For Uptime: adds wakeups: to show 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.
- 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 detec-
tion uses the whoami test.
-xxx -J (--usb)
- Adds, if present, serial number for non hub devices.
- Adds interfaces: for non hub devices.
- Adds, if available, USB speed in Mbits/s or Gbits/s.
- Adds, if present, USB class ID.
- Adds, if non 0, max power in mA.
-xxx -m, --memory-modules
- Adds memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, to-
tal width. e.g.
width (bits): data: 64 total: 72
Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmide-
code 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 identi-
cal, displays same as -xxm voltage report. Use -ma to always see
them.
-xxx -N
- Adds, if present, serial number.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
-xxx -R
- 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 rele-
vant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor [product] infor-
mation.
-xxx -S
- Adds, if in X, or with --display, bar/dock/panel/tray items
(info). If none found, shows nothing. Supports desktop items
like gnome-panel, lxpanel, xfce4-panel, lxqt-panel, tint2,
cairo-dock, trayer, and many others.
- Adds (if present), window manager (wm) version number.
- Adds (if present), display manager (dm) version number.
- Adds (if available, and in display), virtual terminal (vt)
number. These are the same as ctrl+alt+F[x] numbers usually.
Some systems have this, some don't, it varies.
-xxx -w , -W
- Adds location (city state country), observation altitude (if
available), weather observation time (if available), sunset/sun-
rise (if available).
ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are triggered with --admin or -a. Admin options are ad-
vanced output 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 -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,
it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in-
stead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen-
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,
pw-cli, sndioctl, etc.
-a -C
- Adds CPU generation, process node, and built years, if de-
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
optimization switches in for example GCC. These levels were in-
troduced 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.
Requires 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 over-
clocking or 'turbo' or 'boost' 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 with-
out 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 re-
flect actual max speeds that overclocking or other combinations
of speed boosters can enable, as you can see from the example
where the CPU is running at a speed faster than the min/max or
base/boost values.
Note that the normal min/max: speeds do NOT show actual over-
clocked OR boost/turbo mode speeds, and appear to be hard-coded
values, not dynamic real values. The base/boost: values are
sometimes real, and sometimes not. base appears in general to
be real.
- Adds frequency scaling: governor:.. driver:.. if found/avail-
able. Also adds scaling min/max speeds if different from stan-
dard 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 core count (cores:); threads
per core, if > 1 (tpc:); how many threads: (if more threads than
cores); dies: (rarely detected, but if so, if > 1); smt status
(if no smt status found, shows N/A).
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 in the physical cpu (
mt-cores:, st-cores:); For complex CPU types like ARM SoC de-
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
cores: 16
tpc: 2
threads: 32
dies: 4
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
- Adds CPU Vulnerabilities (bugs) as known by your current ker-
nel. Lists by Type: ... (status|mitigation): .... for systems
that support this feature (Linux kernel 4.14 or newer, or
patched older kernels).
-a -d,-a -D
- 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, pow-
ered on, cycles, and some error cases if out of range values.
Note that for Pre-fail items, it will show the VALUE and THRESH-
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 unhan-
dled Attribute 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 further action.
- Adds, for USB or other external drives, actual model name/se-
rial if available, and different from enclosure model/serial,
and corrects block sizes if necessary. Adds in drive temperature
for some drives as well, and other useful data.
-a -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds (hciconfig only) extra line to Report:, Info:. Includes,
if available, ACL MTU, SCO MTU, Link policy, Link mode, and Ser-
vice Classes.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen-
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
items different from primary shown. Bluetooth PCIe rare).
-a -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,
it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in-
stead.
- 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
driver 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:.
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 gen-
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
items different from primary shown).
- Adds to Monitors built:, gamma:, ratio: (if found).
X.org sample (with both xdpyinfo and xrandr data available):
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD 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: 0a:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0
compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: r600
gpu: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1024 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x270mm (26.65x10.63")
s-diag: 729mm (28.7")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: <filter> built: 2004 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 96 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: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4
size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.85") diag: 482mm (19") ratio: 5:4 modes:
max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.16.0-11.1-liquorix-amd64 LLVM
12.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 21.2.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct-render: Yes
....
Wayland sample, with Sway/swaymsg:
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale 2
process: TSMC 32-40nm 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: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 21.1.4 compositor: sway v: 1.6.1
driver: gpu: radeon d-rect: 2560x1024
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: right model: SyncMaster serial: <filter>
built: 2004 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 96 gamma: 1.2
size: 340x270mm (13.4x10.6") diag: 434mm (17.1") ratio: 5:4 modes:
max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: primary,left model: DELL 1908FP serial: <filter>
res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 gamma: 1.4 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4
size: 380x300mm (15.0x11.8") diag: 484mm (19.1") ratio: 5:4 modes:
max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
API: GBM/EGL
Message: Wayland GBM/EGL data currently not available.
-a -I - 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, pkg-
tool) Moves to Repos if -ra.
inxi -aI
Info:
....
Init: systemd v: 245 target: graphical.target (5) default: graphical.target
Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 5/6/7/8/9 Packages: pm: apt pkgs: 3681 libs: 2096
tools: apt, apt-get,aptitude pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Shell: ksh v: A_2020.0.0
default: Bash v: 5.0.16 running-in: kate inxi: 3.1.04
- 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 ma-
chine.
-a -j, -a -P [swap], -a -P [swap]
- Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indi-
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 output:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default
100)
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-a -L - Expands Component report, shows size / maj-min of components
and devices, and mapped name for logical components. Puts each
component/device on its own line.
- Adds maj-min to LV and other devices.
-a -m - Expands volts to include curr/min/max values even if they are
all identical.
-a -n, -a -N, -a -i
- 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,
it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used in-
stead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen-
eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only
items different from primary shown).
-a -o - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-a -p,-a -P
- Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, par-
tition 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 avail-
able size, not the raw size.
- Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root
and blockdev).
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-a -r - Adds to Packages: report. See -Ia
-a -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.
-a -S - Adds kernel boot parameters to Kernel section (if detected).
Support varies by OS type.
-a --slots
- Adds PCI children of the main slot bus ID, and their types and
class IDs, recursively. Linux only, and only if detected. Sam-
ple:
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
--alt 40
Bypass Perl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
--alt 41
Bypass Curl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
--alt 42
Bypass Fetch as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.
--alt 43
Bypass Wget as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl
(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, OpenBSD only: ftp
--alt 44
Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. This basi-
cally forces the downloader selection to use Perl 5.x
HTTP::Tiny, which is generally slower than Curl or Wget but it
may help bypass issues with downloading.
--bt-tool [bt-adapter|hciconfig|rfkill]
Force the use of the given tool for bluetooth report (-E).
rfkill does not support mac address data.
--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.
--display [:<integer>]
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 end-
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 In-
tel 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.
--dmidecode
Shortcut. See --force dmidecode.
--downloader [curl|fetch|perl|wget]
Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.
--force [option(s)]
Various force options to allow users to override defaults. Val-
ues can be given as a comma separated list:
inxi -MJ --force dmidecode,lsusb
- colors - Same as -Y -2 . Do not remove colors from piped or
redirected output.
- dmidecode - Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys
data in some lines, e.g. -M or -B.
- hddtemp - Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for
disks.
- lsusb - Forces the USB data generator to use lsusb as data
source (default). Overrides USB_SYS in user configuration
file(s).
- rpm, pkg - Force override of disabled RPM package counts on
primarily RPM run systems due to unacceptably slow execution
times for this command:
rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature
Even on newer RPM systems, in virtual machines, running rpm
package 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
package 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, it's most likely if not
nearly certain that /sys will also not return 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 - Forces use of Wayland, disables x tools glxinfo,
xrandr, xdpyinfo.
- wmctrl - Force System item wm to use wmctrl as data source,
override default ps source.
--hddtemp
Shortcut. See --force hddtemp.
--html-wan
Temporary override of NO_HTML_WAN configuration item. Only use
to test w/wo HTML downloaders for WAN IP. Restores default be-
havior for WAN IP, which is use HTML downloader if present and
if dig failed.
--man Updates / installs man page with -U if pinxi or using -U 3 dev
branch. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by maintainers).
--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 gen-
eral than other methods.
--no-doas
Skips the use of doas to run certain internal features (like hd-
dtemp, 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 configuration
to setup anyway for these options) just use this option, or
NO_DOAS configuration item. See --no-sudo if you need to disable
both types.
--no-html-wan
Overrides use of HTML downloaders to get WAN IP address. Use ei-
ther 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='true'
--no-man
Disables man page install with -U for master and active develop-
ment branches. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by main-
tainers).
--no-sensor-force
Overrides user set SENSOR_FORCE configuration value. Restores
default behavior.
--no-ssl
Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (-U, -w,
-W, -i). Use if your system does not have current SSL certifi-
cate 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 features (like hd-
dtemp, 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 dis-
able regular user use of sudo (which requires configuration to
setup anyway for these options) just use this option, or NO_SUDO
configuration item.
--pm-type [package manager name]
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.
--rpm, --pkg
Shortcut. See --force rpm.
--sensors-default
Overrides configuration values SENSORS_USE or SENSORS_EXCLUDE on
a one time basis.
--sensors-exclude
Linux only. Similar to --sensors-use except removes listed sen-
sors from sensor data. Make permanent with SENSORS_EXCLUDE con-
figuration item. Note that gpu, network, disk, and other spe-
cific device monitor chips are excluded by default.
Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-exclude k10temp-pci-00c3
--sensors-sys
Shortcut. See --force sensors-sys
--sensors-use
Linux only. Use only the (comma separated) sensor arrays for -s
output. Make permanent with SENSORS_USE configuration item.
Sensor array ID value must be the exact value shown in lm-sen-
sors sensors output (lm-sensors only) or use -s --dbg 18 ('main'
=>.. section) to see the sensor ID strings used internally. If
you only want to exclude one (or more) sensors from the output,
use --sensors-exclude.
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-ef-
fects, since default behavior is to use all the sensors arrays
and select which values to use from them following a set se-
quence 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 doesn't 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 nct6791-isa-0290,k10temp-
pci-00c3
--sleep [0-x.x]
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
--tty 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 --width 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 github issue if you find you
need to use --tty (including the full -Ixxx line) so we can fig-
ure out how to add your program to the list of whitelisted pro-
grams.
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 de-
fault if inxi believes it is running in an IRC client.
--usb-sys
Shortcut. See --force usb-sys
--usb-tool
Shortcut. See --force lsusb
--wan-ip-url [URL]
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='https://mysite.com/ip.php'
--wayland, --wl
Shortcut. See --force wayland.
--wm Shortcut. See --force wmctl.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
--dbg {[1-x][,[1-x]]}
Accepts one or more comma separated dbg specific debugging num-
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 github inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt for specific
specialized debugging options. There are a lot.
--debug [1-3]
- On screen debugger output.
--debug 10
- Basic logging. Check $XDG_DATA_HOME/inxi/inxi.log or
$HOME/.local/share/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.inxi/inxi.log.
--debug 11
- Full file/system info logging.
--debug 20
Creates a tar.gz file of system data and collects the inxi out-
put 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.
--debug 21
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.
--debug 22
Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,
then removes the debug data directory and the tar.gz file. See
--ftp for uploading to alternate locations.
--debug-id [string]
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
--fake-data-dir
Developer only: Change default location of $fake_data_dir, which
is where files are for --fake {item} items.
--ftp [ftp.yoursite.com/incoming]
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.
--debug-proc
Force debugger to parse /proc directory data when run as root.
Normally this is disabled due to unpredictable data in /proc
tree.
--debug-proc-print
Use this to locate file that /proc debugger hangs on.
--debug-no-exit
Skip exit on error when running debugger.
--debug-no-proc
Skip /proc debugging in case of a hang.
--debug-no-sys
Skip /sys debugging in case of a hang.
--debug-sys
Force PowerPC debugger parsing of /sys as doas/sudo/root.
--debug-sys-print
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 ei-
ther built-in or external script 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
don't 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 script if your distribu-
tion or inxi package hasn't already done this for you, create
this symbolic link:
KDE 4: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversa-
tion/scripts/inxi
KDE 5: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/konversa-
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
following 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
future package names), qt5-tools (Arch + derived). Check your
distro 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 over-
ridden by creating a /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf file (global override),
which will prevent distro packages from changing or overwriting your
edits. This method is recommended if you are using a distro packaged
inxi and want to override some global configuration items from the
package's default /etc/inxi.conf file but don't want to lose your
changes on a package update.
You can also override, per user, with a user configuration file found
in one of the following locations (inxi will store its config file us-
ing the following precedence):
if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if $HOME/.con-
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 > /etc/inxi.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
Here's 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, wrap-
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 'sleep' 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 download-
ers and Perl downloaders.
FILTER_STRING Default <filter>. Any string you prefer to see in-
stead for filtered values.
INDENT Change primary indent width of wide mode output. See
--indent.
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 ad-
dresses.
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 Down-
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 output sort. See
--partition-sort for options.
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 can't
figure 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
output. Override with --sensors-default. See --sensors-exclude.
SENSORS_USE Use only supplied sensor array[s]. Override with
--sensors-default. See --sensors-use.
SEP2_CONSOLE Replaces default key / value separator of ':'. 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 URL's page content source code.
Same as --wan-ip-url [URL]
WEATHER_SOURCE Values: [0-9]. 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
It's best to use the -c [94-99] color selector tool to set the
following values because it will correctly update the configura-
tion file and remove any invalid or conflicting items, but if
you prefer to create your own configuration files, here are the
options. All take the integer value from the options available
in -c 94-99.
NOTE: All default and configuration file set color values are
removed when output is piped or redirected. You must use the ex-
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
--fake-data-dir.
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://github.com/smxi/inxi/issues
Forums Post on inxi forums: https://techpatterns.com/forums/fo-
rum-33.html
IRC irc.oftc.net / irc.libera.chat
You can also visit channel: #smxi to post issues on either net-
work.
HOMEPAGE
https://github.com/smxi/inxi
- Home of the source code, and tech docs (inxi-perl/docs).
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
- The main docs for inxi. See inxi-perl/docs for more technical docs.
https://fosstodon.org/@smxi
- Follow @smxi on Mastodon!
AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE
inxi is a fork of locsmif's very clever infobash script.
Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007
Michiel de Boer aka locsmif
inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-2023 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 devel-
opment and debugging new or refactored features, particularly the re-
done 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 varia-
tions, particularly for the RAM -m option.
AntiX users and admins, who have helped greatly with testing and debug-
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 output 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 test-
ing 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 par-
ticular but not limited to, the Graphics features.
All the inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum modera-
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 it's 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.
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