Manual: inxi
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NAME
inxi - Command line system information tool for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi
inxi [-AbBCdDeEfGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUwyYzZ]
inxi [-c -NUMBER] [--sensors-exclude SENSORS] [--sensors-use SENSORS] [-t [c|m|cm|mc][NUMBER]] [-v NUMBER] [-w [LOCAā
TION]] [--weather-unit {m|i|mi|im}] [-y WIDTH]
inxi [--edid] [--memory-modules] [--memory-short] [--recommends] [--sensors-default] [--slots] [--version] [--verā
sion-short]
inxi [-x|-xx|-xxx|-a] -OPTION(s)
All short form options have long form variants - see below for these and more advanced options.
DESCRIPTION
inxi is a command line system information tool built for console and IRC. It is also used as a debugging tool for foā
rum technical support to quickly ascertain users' system configurations and hardware. inxi shows system hardware,
CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, compiler 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. 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 automatically filters out your network device MAC
address, WAN and LAN IP, your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other items.
Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger this filtering with the -z option (-ez, for
example). To override the IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful in debugging network connection
issues online in a private chat, for example.
See FILTER OPTIONS for all filters. If you want to filter everything, use --za though that's usually overkill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
This man page is pretty long and information packed. It is divided into the following sections:
* USING OPTIONS How to use the command line options.
* STANDARD OPTIONS Primary data types trigger items.
* FILTER OPTIONS Apply a variety of output filters.
* OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS Change default colors, widths, heights, output types, etc.
* EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -x, -xx, and -xxx add to the report per primary data type.
* ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -a adds to the report per primary data type. These have a lot of information because
this is advanced admin data, which are not always intuitive or easy to understand.
* ADVANCED OPTIONS Modify behavior or choice of data sources, and other advanced switches.
* DEBUGGING OPTIONS For development use mainly, or contributing datasets to the project.
* DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES Only for advanced users, sometimes something will hang the debuggers,
this shows you various ways to get around those failures.
* SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS List of known good IRC clients. Not checked often, let us know if something is not working.
* RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT How to run inxi in various IRC clients.
* CONFIGURATION FILE Configuration file locations and priority in using.
* CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Most of the commonly used configuration options, along with sample values.
* BUGS How and where to report bugs.
* HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING These are self explanitory.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. You can either group the letters together or separate them.
Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion, except when using -t. Note that if you use an opā
tion that requires an additional argument, that must be last in the short form group of options. Otherwise you can
use those separately as well.
For example: inxi -AG | inxi -A -G | inxi -b | inxi -c10 | inxi -exxzJy90 | 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 APIs: ALSA, OSS, sndio. Supported servers: aRts (artsd), Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound, esd),
JACK, NAS (Network Audio System, nasd), PipeWire, PulseAudio, RoarAudio, sndiod.
Use -Ax to show all sound APIs/servers detected, including inactive, -Axx to see API/Server helper daeā
mons/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 report with the following items: System (-S); Machine (-M); Battery (-B) (if available); basic CPU
(cores, type, average clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available); Graphics (-G); Networking devices (-N);
basic Disk; Info (-I).
The CPU and Disk short forms are special, and are only used in -b. To see their full forms, add -C or -D.
Same as: inxi -v 2
For expanded -b report, see -e/--expanded.
-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 inā
formation, and none about current battery state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when using /sys or
sysctl data.
Note that for charge:, the report shows the current charge, as well as its value as a percentage of the availā
able capacity, which can be less than the original design capacity. In the following example, the actual curā
rent available capacity of the battery is 22.2 Wh.
charge: 20.1 Wh (95.4%)
If charge percent > 100, adds note: check. The causes from that can range from driver bugs, hardware bugs, odd
behaviors, so there's no way to know why.
The condition: item shows the remaining available capacity / original design capacity, and then this figure as
a percentage of original capacity available in the battery.
condition: 22.2/36.4 Wh (61%)
Corner cases of failing battery show < 1 Wh and percent values for charge, capacity, and condition, and an
alert.
condition: 0.01/62.6 Wh (0.02%) alert: bad battery?
If health item is available and if it is not 'good', shows health: value. Always shows with -x if present.
With -x, or if voltage difference is critical, volts: item shows the current voltage, and the min: voltage.
Note that if the 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 report (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 HDD/SSD drive data. With -x, adds a feature line to the report. Also
shows floppy disks if present. Note that there is no current way to get any information about the floppy deā
vice 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 HDD/SSD drive info. Shows total drive space and used percentage. The drive used percentage includes space
used by swap partition(s), since those are not usable for data storage. Also, unmounted partitions are not
counted in drive use percentages since inxi has no access to the used amount.
If the system has RAID or other logical storage, and if inxi can determine the size of those vs their compoā
nents, you will see the storage total raw and usable sizes, plus the percent used of the usable size. The no
argument short form of inxi will show only the usable (or total if no usable) and used percent. If there is no
logical storage detected, only total: and used: will show. Sample (with RAID logical size calculated):
Local Storage: total: raw: 5.49 TiB usable: 2.80 TiB used: 1.35 TiB (48.3%)
Without logical storage detected:
Local Storage: total: 2.89 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (52.3%)
Also shows per drive information: Disk ID, type (FireWire, Removable, USB if present), vendor (if detected),
model, and size. See Extra Data Options (-x options) and Admin Extra Data Options (--admin options) for many
more features.
-e , --expanded
Show expanded -b report. Includes all Upper Case options (except -J), 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 unless you use those arguments in the comā
mand, e.g.: inxi -ermxx
The basic CPU line is expanded to full CPU data (-C); the basic disk information line is expanded to full
drive information (-D) plus primary system partition data (-P), along with adding, if found, RAID (-R) and
Logical (-L) items; the Network line (-N) is expanded to advanced network (-n).
Note that with -e, to avoid clutter, -B, -E, -L, and -R only show if results are found since those are often
not relevant.
For basic report, see -b/--basic.
The previous -F/--full are deprecated because the expanded report has not been full for a long time.
-E, --bluetooth
Show bluetooth device(s), drivers. Show Report: with HCI ID, state, address per device (requires btmgmt,
bt-adapter, or hciconfig), and if available (hciconfig, btmgmt 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 example:
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 -e in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show
features items.
-F , --full
Deprecated. See -e/--expanded.
-G , --graphics
Show Graphic device(s) information, including details of device and display drivers (X: loaded:, and, if apā
plicable: unloaded:, failed:, dri: (if X and different from loaded X drivers) drivers, and active gpu: driā
vers), 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, regardless of protocol.
Also shows screen resolution(s) (per monitor/X screen). Shows graphics API information (if available). EGL:
EGL version, drivers, acdtive platforms; OpenGL: renderer, OpenGL core profile version/OpenGL version (if
core/compat versions different, shows that as well); Vulkan: Vulkan version, drivers, surfaces;VESA: data (for
Xvesa).
Compositor information will show if detected using -xx option or always if detected and Wayland since the comā
positor is the server with Wayland.
-Gxx shows monitor data as well, if detected. --edid shows advanced monitor data (full modes, chroma, etc.).
-h , --help
The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal window. Set global COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a
different default value, or use -y [width] to temporarily override the defaults or actual window width.
-i , --ip
Show WAN IP address and local interfaces (latter requires ifconfig or ip network tool), as well as network reā
port from -n. Not shown with -e for user security reasons. You shouldn't paste your local/WAN IP. Shows both
IPv4 and IPv6 link IP addresses.
--ip-limit, --limit [-1 - x]
Raise or lower max report limit of IP addresses for -i. -1 removes limit.
-I , --info
Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, IRC client (or shell type if run in shell, not IRC), inxi verā
sion. See -Ix, -Ixx, and -Ia for extra information (init type/version, runlevel/target, packages).
Note: if -m or -tm are active, the memory item will show in the main Memory: report of -m/-tm/, not in Info:.
See -m for explanation of Memory: fields and values..
-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 number of ports. Be aware that a port is not alā
ways external, some may be internal, and either used or unused (for example, a motherboard USB header connecā
tor that is not used).
Hubs and Devices are listed in order of BusID.
BusID is generally in this format: BusID-port[.port][.port]:DeviceID
Device ID is a number created by the kernel, and has no necessary ordering or sequence connection, but can be
used to match this output to lsusb values, which generally shows BusID / DeviceID (except for tree view, which
shows ports).
Examples: Device-3: 4-3.2.1:2 or Hub: 4-0:1
The rev: 2.0 item refers to the USB revision number, like 1.0 or 3.1.
Use -Jx for basic Si base 10 bits/s speed, -Jxx for Si and IEC base 2 Bytes/s speeds. -Ja adds USB mode.
-l , --label
Show partition labels. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show partition labels. Requires 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 compoā
nents. 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 subā
set 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 simple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in -Lxx.
-Lxx also shows all components and devices. Note that since components 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 numā
ber 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 applicable), 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 -e unless you use -m explicitly. Ordered by system board physiā
cal system memory array(s) (Array-[number]), and individual memory devices (Device-[number]). Physical memory
array data shows array capacity, number of devices supported, and Error Correction information. Devices shows
locator data (highly variable in syntax), type (eg: type: DDR3)size, speed.
Note: inxi -m uses either dboot (BSDs), dmidecode, or udevadm (Linux) to collect the RAM data. Not all boards
have DMI RAM data available.
dmidecode must be run as root (or start inxi with doas/sudo), unless you figure out how to set up doas/sudo to
permit dmidecode to read /dev/mem as user.
udevadm can be run by non-superuser, or if dmidecode is not installed (Linux only). It has a slightly less reā
liable dmi table report, and does not seem to support more than 1 board memory array, but is pretty good.
Voltages may be wrong however.
Both dmidecode and udevadm need a DMI table with RAM data to create the report. Most SBC/SOC boards don't have
dmi based RAM data. But most other machines do.
speed and bus-width will not show if no module installed is found in size.
Note: If -m is triggered RAM available/used report will appear in this section, not in -I or -tm items.
Because dmi source data is somewhat unreliable, inxi will try to make best guesses. If you see (check) after
the capacity number, you should check it with the specifications. (est) is slightly more reliable, but you
should still check the real specifications before buying RAM. Unfortunately there is nothing inxi can do to
get truly reliable data about the system RAM; maybe one day the kernel devs will put this data into /sys, and
make it real data, taken from the actual system, not dmi data. For most people, the data will be right, but a
significant percentage of users will have either a wrong max module size, if available, or max capacity.
Under dmidecode/udevadm, speed: is the expected speed of the memory (spec:, what is advertised on the memory
spec sheet) and actual:, what the actual speed is now. To handle this, if speed and configured speed values
are different, you will see this instead:
speed: spec: [specified speed] MT/s actual: [actual] MT/s
Also, if DDR, and speed in MHz, will change to: speed: [speed] MT/s ([speed] MHz)
If the detected speed is logically absurd, like 1 MT/s or 69910 MT/s, adds: note: check. Sample:
Memory:
System RAM: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.38 GiB
used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check
See --memory-modules and --memory-short if you want a shorter report.
Notes on System RAM: / Memory: report item:
* total: and igpu: do not show for short form.
* The total: can come from several possible sources:
- If not superuser, and if /sys/devices/system/memory exists, it will estimate the total RAM based on how many
RAM blocks and their size. Sometimes the block count is not an exact match to installed RAM, and inxi will atā
tempt to guess the actual RAM amount, except for virtual machines. When it synthesizes the actual physical RAM
total, it will show note: est..
Note that not all kernels are compiled to support generating this /sys directory (kernel needs to be compiled
with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG).
- For OpenBSD and not superuser, the total comes from the detected RAM in dboot, if available.
- If superuser, and if -m used, it comes from the dmidecode RAM totals if available, and if not, it comes from
counting up the System RAM ranges in /proc/iomem (Linux only), then rounding up, since that total is usually
slightly under the actual physical RAM total. If inxi is unsure about the total, it will show note: est..
If no total data found, shows total: N/A.
* The available: item is the total installed RAM minus some reserved and kernel code RAM (and in some cases
iGPU assigned main system RAM) that is allocated on system boot, and thus is generally less than the actual
physical RAM installed. This is called MemTotal in free/meminfo even though it isn't, though it is the total
available the kernel has to work with.
* The used: is the percent of the available RAM used, NOT of the total physical RAM.
* The igpu: item either comes from Raspberry Pi gpu RAM, or from /proc/iomem. The latter source is Linux + suā
peruser only, and is not guaranteed to be accurate, but sometimes is. That is for iGPU system RAM used, not
for standalone GPUs with their own internal RAM. Not all types of internal VRAM are detectable, it depends on
how the hardware assigns RAM to iGPU.
Raspberry Pi uses vcgencmd get_mem gpu to get gpu RAM amount, if user is in video group and vcgencmd is inā
stalled.
--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/kerā
nels 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 atā
tempt 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 detected. If you get an incorrect report, 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 obā
scure 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.
-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):
ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.
Does not show components (partitions that create the md-raid array) 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.
--partitions-sort, --ps [dev-base|fs|id|label|percent-used|size|uuid|used]
Change default sort order of partition report. Corresponds to PARTITION_SORT configuration item. These are the
available sort options:
dev-base - /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 random 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.
-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)
EMERGE (T2 SDE, svn target URL)
EOPKG (Solus)
NETPKG (Zenwalk/Slackware)
NIX (NixOS + other distros as alternate package manager)
PACMAN (Arch Linux, KaOS + derived versions)
PACMAN-G2 (Frugalware + derived versions)
PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
PKG (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
PORTAGE (Gentoo, Sabayon + derived versions)
PORTS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
SBOPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
SBOUI (Slackware + derived versions)
SCRATCHPKG (Venom + derived versions)
SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
SLAPT_GET (Slackware + derived versions)
SLPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
TCE (TinyCore)
TAZPKG (Slitaz)
URPM (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)
XBPS (Void)
YUM/ZYPP (Fedora, Red Hat, Suse + derived versions)
More will be added as distro data is collected. If yours is 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/sofā
traid/ZFS: the numerator 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 reporting 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 report from sensors if sensors installed/configured: Motherboard/CPU/GPU temperatures; detected fan
speeds. GPU temperature when available. Nvidia shows screen number for multiple screens. IPMI sensors are also
used (root required) if present.
See Advanced options --sensors-use or --sensors-exclude if you want to use only a subset of all sensors, or
exclude one (currently 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 installed. 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 trigā
gered, will also show the system RAM used/total information.
See -m for explanation of System RAM: fields and values.
-t cm - CPU+memory. With -x, shows also CPU or memory for that process on same line.
-u , --uuid
Show UUIDs. Use with -j, -M -o, -p, and -P to show partition/system board (not common) UUIDs. Requires 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 inxi or pinxi. Note: if you installed as root, you must be root to update, otherwise user is fine.
Also installs / updates current man page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if /usr/local/share/man/ exists AND
there is no inxi man page in /usr/share/man/man1, otherwise it goes to /usr/share/man/man1). This requires
that you be root to write to that directory. See --man or --no-man to force or disable man install.
-U accepts the following options (inxi and pinxi):
No arg - Get from main git branch.
3 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) version. Be aware that pinxi when taken from here can be very unstable durā
ing active development! The inxi version is the stable master branch version. Also useful to update if you
have SSL issues and --no-ssl works.
4 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) FTP version (same as 3 version). Use if SSL issues and --no-ssl doesn't
work. For very old systems with SSL 1, you will probably need to use this option, which bypasses HTTP downā
loading, and uses straight FTP to get the file from smxi.org server.
[http|https|ftp] - Get a version of $self_name from your own server. Use the full download path, e.g.
inxi -U https://myserver.com/inxi
For failed downloads, use the debug option --dbg 1 in addition to get more verbose failure reports.
--usb
See -J.
-v , --verbosity
Report verbosity levels. If no verbosity level number is given, 0 is assumed. Should not be used with -b or
-e since the option that triggers the most features will override the one with fewer.
Supported levels: 0-8
Can be used together with other options.
Examples: inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4 or inxi --verbosity 4 or inxi -zv8
-v 0 - Simple report. Same as: inxi (with no options).
-v 1 - Basic report: System (-S); basic CPU (cores, type, average clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available);
Graphics (-G); basic Disk; Info (-I).
-v 2 - Adds: Machine (-M); Battery (-B) (if available); Networking devices (-N). Same as inxi -b.
-v 3 - Adds: full CPU (-C); advanced network (-n); triggers -x extra data option.
-v 4 - Adds: full Drive (-D); system Partitions (-P) (if present): / /home /var/ /boot.
-v 5 - Adds: memory/RAM (-m); audio device (-A); bluetooth (-E) (if present); RAID data (-R) (if present); partiā
tion label (-l) and UUID (-u); swap (-j); sensors (-s),
-v 6 - Adds: full mounted partitions (-p); unmounted partitions (-o); optical drives (-d); USB (-J); triggers -xx
extra data option.
-v 7 - Adds: full CPU flags/features (-f); advanced network IP (-i); triggers -xxx; forces battery (-B), bluetooth
(-E), Logical devices (-L) and RAID (-R) regardless whether data was found for them or not.
-v 8 - Adds: PCI slots (--slots); GPU advanced EDID data (--edid); Repos (-r); Processes (-tcm); triggers -a admin
data option. This is all the available system data.
--version, --vf
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 unless used without any other options. Can be used with normal line options, and prints version
info line as first line of output.
-w , --weather [location]
DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated or excessive use will lead to your being
blocked from any further access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather 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 request.
Adds weather line for your current location (by IP address) if no location requested. To get weather for an
alternate location, add [location]. See also -x, -xx, -xxx options. Please note that your distribution's mainā
tainer may chose to disable this feature.
With optional [location] - 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 the '+' 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 OR -w 95623,us OR -w Boston,MA OR -w 45.5234,-122.6762 OR -w new+york,ny OR -w bodo,norway.
--weather-source, --ws [source-id]
[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 inā
stead of space). 2 offers pretty good data, but may not have all small city names for -w location.
Please note that the data sources are not static per value, and can change any time, or be removed, so always
test to verify which source is being used for each value if that is important to you. Data sources may be
added or removed on occasions, so try each one and see which you prefer. If you get unsupported source mesā
sage, it means that number has not been implemented.
--weather-unit, --wu [unit]
[m|i|mi|im] Sets weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), metric (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 matter what other switches you use.
--no-host
Turns off hostname in System line. This is default when using -z, for anonymizing inxi report 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, location (-w), and user home directory name. Reā
moves 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 speā
cialized cases.
--zu, --filter-uuid
Filter partition UUIDs from -j, -o, -p, -P, -Sa (root=UUID=...), -Mxxx board UUID. Useful in 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 networking 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 selection.
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 outā
put.
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 selection.
--export [json|screen|xml]
See --output.
--export-file [full path to output fil]
See --output-file.
--indent [11-xx]
Change primary wide indent width. Generally useless. Only applied if output width is greater than max wrap
width (see --max-wrap). Use configuration item INDENT to make permanent.
--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.
--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 indented default 2 columns (use --inā
dents 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 configuration value MAX_WRAP.
--output, --export [json|screen|xml]
Change data output type. Requires --output-file. screen is the inxi default mode, and is useful only to overā
ride a configuration file value.
See this page https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-json-xml-output.htm BEFORE you post an issue about not understanding,
or being unable to use, the output format! That gives a fairly complete explanation 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]
This is the file to write the output to. The given directory path must exist.
To print the data type results to stdout, use print.
--separator, --sep [character(s)]
Change the default report 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 output). Not recommended for use with -Y;
* -y -1 - removes width limits (if assigned by configuration items).
Examples:
inxi -exx -y 130
inxi -exxy
inxi -bay1
-Y, --height, --less [-3-[integer]
Control output height. Useful when in console, and scrollback not available. Breaks output flow based on valā
ues 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:, System:) at a time. Useful for very long outputs
like -ea, -v8, etc. Not available for -h.
* -Y -2 - Do not disable output colors when redirected or piped to another program. Useful if piping output to
less -R for example. This does not limit the height otherwise since the expectation it is being piped to anā
other 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 information 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 battery health: (uncommon. If other than 'good', always shows for -B.
- Adds battery temperature, in C (uncommon).
- Adds vendor/model, battery status (if battery present).
- Adds attached battery powered peripherals (Device-[number]:) if detected (keyboard, mouse, etc.).
- Adds battery volts:, min: voltages. Note that if difference is critical, that is current voltage is too
close to minimum voltage, 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-basic: (short list). Use -f to see full flag/feature list.
- Adds CPU microarchitecture + revision (e.g. Sandy Bridge, K8, ARMv8, P6, etc.). Only shows data if detected.
Newer microarchitectures 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/modules-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 supports 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 hddtemp 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):
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, btmgmt, hciconfig only) LMP (HCI if no LMP data, and HCI if HCI/LMP versions are differā
ent) version (if available) for each HCI ID.
-x -G - Adds GPU micro-architecture (if AMD/Intel/Nvidia and detected).
- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.
- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor [product] information.
- X.org: Adds (for single GPU, nvidia driver) screen number that GPU is running on.
- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).
- For EGL, adds active/inactive platform report.
- For OpenGL (X.org only) adds direct render status, GLX version.
- For Vulkan, adds device count.
-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 deprecated IP v6 scope site/global temporary adā
dresses 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 temā
porary deprecated, ip shows it only for global)
ip-v6-link - scope link (ip/ifconfig) - default for -i.
ip-v6-site - scope site (ip/ifconfig). This has been deprecated in IPv6, but still exists. ifconfig may show
multiple site values, 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 compilers. With -xx, also show other installed compiler versions.
- Adds current runlevel/target (not available with all init systems).
- Adds total packages discovered in system. See -xx and -a for per package manager type reports. Moves to Reā
pos if -rx.
If your package manager is not supported, please file an issue and we'll add it. That requires the full outā
put 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 number, if available.
-x -j (--swap)
Add mapper:. See -x -o.
-x -J (--usb)
- For Devices, adds driver(s).
- Adds, if available, USB speed in base 10 bits/s (Si) units Mb/s or Gb/s (may be incorrect on BSDs due to non
reliable data source). These are base 10 bits per second. This unit corresponds to the standard units the USB
consortium uses to indicate speeds, but not to how most of the rest of your system reports sizes. Use -Jxx to
add base 2 IEC Byte/second speeds.
-x -L (--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 Array 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 partition.
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 compiler version.
- Adds to Distro: base: if detected. System base will only be seen on a subset of distributions. The distro
must be both derived from a parent distro (e.g. Mint from Ubuntu), and explicitly added to the supported disā
tributions 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 report to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory (-xt m).
-x -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 for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds with: [item] status: [state/plugin] helper daemons/plugins for the sound API/server.
-xx -B - Adds current power use, in watts (if available).
- Adds serial number.
- Adds a charging: container for all charging specific information.
- Adds charge cycles (NOTE: there appears to be a problem with the Linux kernel obtaining the cycle count, so
this often shows 0. There's nothing that can be done about this glitch, the data is simply not available as of
2018-04-03), Since 0 isn't a real value, shows N/A if not found or 0.
-xx -D - Adds HDD/SSD drive serial number.
- Adds drive speed (if available). This is the theoretical top speed of the device as reported. This speed may
be restricted by system board limits, eg. a SATA 3 drive on a SATA 2 board may 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 HDD/SSD drive duid, if available. Some BSDs have it.
- Adds for USB drives USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
-xx -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe bluetooth, which is rare).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds (hciconfig only) LMP subversion (and/or HCI revision if applicable) for each device.
-xx -G Triggers much more complete Screen/Monitor report.
X.org: requires xdpyinfo or xrandr, and the advanced per monitor feature requires xrandr.
Wayland: requires any tool capable of showing monitor and resolution information. Sway has swaymsg, weā
ston-info or wayland-info can show Wayland information on any Wayland compositor, and wlr-randr can show Wayā
land information for any wlroots based compositor.
Further note that all references to Displays, Screens, and Monitors are referring to the X or Wayland techniā
cal terms, not normal consumer usage.
X.org: 1 Display runs 1 or more Screens, and 1 Screen runs 1 or more Monitors.
Wayland: The Display is the primary container, and it can contain 1 or more Monitors.
- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device and detected).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
- Adds output port IDs, active, off (connected but disabled, like a closed laptop lid) and empty. Example:
ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
- Adds Display ID. X.org: the Display running the Screen that runs the Monitors; Wayland: the Display that
runs the monitors.
- Adds compositor, if found (always shows for Wayland).
- Wayland: Adds to Display d-rect: if > 1 monitors in Display. This is the size of the rectangle Wayland creā
ates 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 explicitly set the driver in xorg.conf,
Xorg will not create this automatic check driver list.
- Xorg: Adds total number of Screens listed for the current Display.
- 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 necessarily the same thing, and can vary widely.
- Adds Monitor lines. Monitors are a subset of a Screen (X.org) or Display (Wayland), each of which can have
one or more monitors. Normally a dual monitor setup is 2 monitors run by one Xorg Screen/Wayland Display.
- res: is the current monitor mode, along with the frequency hz:.
- pos: [primary,]{position string|row-col} (X.org: requires xrandr; Wayland: requires swaymsg [sway],
wlr-randr [wlroots based compositors], weston-info / wayland-info [all]). Uses either explicit primary value
or +0+0 position if no primary monitor value set. pos: does not show for single monitor setups, or if no poā
sition data was found.
Position is text (left, center, center-l, center-r, right, top, top-left, top-center, top-right, middle, midā
dle-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 indiā
cate 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 composed of.
- diag: monitor screen diagonal in mm (inches). Note that this is the real monitor size, not the Xorg full
Screen diagonal size, which can be quite different.
- For EGL, shows platform by specific platforms, with driver and egl version if different from the main one.
- For OpenGL, adds ES version (es-v) if available. If the Display line did not find an X11 display ID, the ID
(e.g. :0.0) will show here instead.
- For OpenGL, Vulkan, adds device-ID, if available.
- For Vulkan, adds per Device ID report (type, driver, device-ID).
-xx -I - Addes Power: parent for power data children uptime: and adds wakeups:. Wakeups shows how many times the maā
chine has been woken from suspend state during current uptime period (if available, Linux only). 0 value means
the machine has not been suspended.
- Adds init type version number (and rc if present).
- Adds alternate (alt:) detected installed compiler versions (if present).
- Adds system default runlevel/target, if detected. Supports 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 total after Packages:. Does not show installed package managers with 0 packages. See -a for
full report. Moves to Repos if -rxx.
- Adds parent program (or pty/tty) that started shell, if not IRC client.
-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.
- Adds USB lanes. Uses tx (transmit) lane count for total unless rx and tx counts are different (eg: lanes:
rx: 2 tx: 4). Linux only. See -Ja for sample report.
-xx -L (--logical)
- Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta data volumes.
- Adds full list of Components, sub-components, and their physical 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 serā
ial 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 systems 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.
- Adds board part number (part-nu:) if available. This is not commonly found.
-xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.
- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device and detected).
- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).
-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 desktop toolkit (tk:), if available (Xfce/KDE/Trinity/Gnome etc).
- Adds, if run in X, window manager (wm:), if available. Not all window managers are supported. File issue to
request a missing one. Some desktops support using more than one window manager, so this can be useful to see
what window manager is actually running. If none found, shows nothing. Uses a less accurate fallback tool wmcā
trl if ps tests fail to find data.
- Adds display/login manager (dm:/lm:), if present. If none, shows N/A. Supports most known display/login manā
agers, including elogind, entrance, gdm, gdm3, greetd, kdm, lemurs, lightdm, lxdm, ly, mdm, mlogind, nodm,
sddm, seatd, slim, slimski, tint, wdm, xdm, and several others, added as discovered.
-xx --slots
- Adds slot length.
- Adds slot voltage, if available.
-xx -w - Adds wind chill, heat index, and dew point, if available.
- Adds cloud cover, rain, snow, or precipitation (amount in previous hour to observation time), if available.
-xxx -A
- Adds, if present, serial number.
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
-xxx -B
- Adds battery temperature (uncommon).
- Adds battery build date (uncommon).
- Adds battery chemistry (e.g. Li-ion)).
- Adds location (only available from dmidecode derived output.
- Adds battery charging type (uncommon).
- Adds attached device rechargeable: [yes|no] information.
-xxx -C
- Adds CPU voltage and external clock speed (this is the motherboard 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|].
means the CPU does not support SMT.
-xxx -D
- Adds HDD/SSD drive firmware revision number (if available).
- Adds drive partition scheme (in most cases), e.g. scheme: GPT. Currently not able to detect all schemes,
but handles the most common, e.g. GPT or MBR.
- Adds drive tech (HDD/SSD), rotation speed (in some but not all cases), e.g. tech: HDD rpm: 7200, or tech:
SSD if positive SSD identification was made. If no HDD, rotation, or positive SSD ID found, shows tech: N/A.
Not all HDD spinning disks report their speed, so even if they are spinning, no rpm data will show.
-xxx -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.
- Adds, if present, bluetooth device 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!
- Expands monitor res: to current mode:, hz:, scale:, and if scale != 1, scaled to: resolution.
- Adds to Monitors (if detected) size (size: 277x156mm (10.9x6.1")). Note that this is the real physical moniā
tor size, not the Xorg Screen/Wayland Display size, which can be quite different (1 Xorg Screen / Wayland Disā
play can for instance contain two or more monitors).
- Adds to Monitors modes: min: max: (if detected). These are the smallest and largest monitor modes found, usā
ing an inexact method, so might not always be right.
- Adds to Monitors serial: number (if detected).
- For EGL, shows hardware based driver(s) (hw:), with the related hardware, like AMD or Intel.
- For Vulkan, adds layer count, per device driver hardware vendor (not displayed if device name is present
with -a).
-xxx -I
- For Power: adds supported system power states:, active suspend: type, active hibernate: type. See
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.html for full explanation of states and acā
tions.
- For Shell: adds (su|sudo|login) to shell name if present.
- For Shell: adds default: shell if different from running shell, and default shell v:, if available.
- For running-in: adds (SSH) to parent, if present. SSH detection uses the whoami test.
-xxx -J (--usb)
- Adds, if present, serial number for non hub devices.
- Adds interfaces: for non hub devices.
- Adds, if present, USB class ID.
- Adds, if non 0, max power in mA.
-xxx -m, --memory-modules
- Adds memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, total width. e.g.
width (bits): data: 64 total: 72
Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmidecode output, so inxi will take the larger value
as the total if present. Data width usually corresponds to the CPU bits. Total can reflect EEC or Dual Channel
widths. If no total width data is found, shows:
width: N/A
- Adds device type detail, e.g. type: DDR3 detail: Synchronous.
- Adds device serial number.
- Adds memory module current, max, and min voltages, if they are available and different from each other. If
they are the identical, displays same as -xxm voltage report. Use -ma to always see them.
-xxx -M
- Adds, if present, board/chassis UUID, This is also activated by --uuid.
-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 relevant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor
[product] information.
-xxx -S
- Adds current kernel clock source, if available (Linux only).
- Adds (if present), window manager (wm) version number.
- Adds, if in X, or with --display, bar/dock/menu/panel/tray components (with:). If none found, shows nothing.
Examples: cairo-dock, docky, gnome-panel, lxpanel, tint2, trayer, lxqt-panel, xfce4-panel and many others.
- Adds (if present) tools: item for all detected running screensavers, screen lockers. Note that not all
screen lockers run as daemons/services, some are just programs called by other tools or actions.
- Adds (if available, and in display), virtual terminal (vt) number. These are the same as ctrl+alt+F[x] numā
bers usually. Some systems have this, some don't, it varies.
- Adds (if present), display/login manager (dm) version number.
-xxx -w
- Adds location (city state country), observation altitude (if available), weather observation time (if availā
able), sunset/sunrise (if available).
ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are triggered with --admin or -a. Admin options are advanced report options, and are more technical,
and mostly of interest to system administrators or other machine admins.
The --admin option sets -xxx, and only has to be used once. It will trigger the following features:
-a -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 instead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe generation, 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.
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
-a -C
- Adds CPU generation, process node, and built years, if detected. For Intel, only will show if Core generaā
tion, 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 setā
ting compile time optimization switches in for example GCC. These levels were introduced 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 synā
tax 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
overclocking 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 without boost mode, and the boost number is the max speed the CPU reports itself able to run at.
The actual max speed may be higher than either value, or lower. The boost number appears to be hard-coded into
the CPU DMI data, and does not seem to reflect actual max speeds that overclocking or other combinations of
speed boosters can enable, as you can see from the example where the CPU is running at a speed faster than the
min/max or base/boost values.
Note that the normal min/max: speeds do NOT show actual overclocked 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/available. Also adds scaling min/max speeds if difā
ferent from standard CPU min/max spees (not common).
- Adds description of cache topology per cpu. Linux only.
- Creates new Topology: line after the Info: line. Moves cache data to this line from Info: line.
Topology line contains, if available and/or relevant: physical CPU count (cpus:); per physical CPU dies:,
clusters:, cores:; threads per core, if > 1 (tpc:); how many threads: (if more threads than cores); smt status
(if no smt status found, shows N/A).
Not all CPUs have or report dies or clusters. Some may have dies but no clusters, some clusters but no dies,
some dies and clusters, and some neither dies nor clusters. This is a function of how the CPU topology reports
itself to the kernel. Note that core counts are per physical CPU, not per die or cluster. Clusters are per
die, and in cases of > 1 dies, will show as: clusters: 2x4.
If complex CPU type, like Alder lake, cores: will have a more granular breakdown of how many mt
(multi-threaded) and how many st (single-threaded) cores there are in the physical cpu (mt-cores:, st-cores:);
For complex CPU types like ARM SoC devices with 2 CPU types, with different core counts and/or min/max:) freā
quencies, variant: per type found, with relevant differences shown, like cores:, min/max:, etc.
CPU:
Info:
model: AMD EPYC 7281
bits: 64
type: MT MCP MCM SMP
arch: Zen
gen: 1
level: v3
note: check
process: GF 14nm
built: 2017-19
family:0x17 (23)
model-id:1
stepping: 2
microcode: 0x8001250
Topology:
cpus: 2
dies: 4
cores: 16
threads: 32
tpc: 2
cache:
L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB)
desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x64 KiB
L2: 2x 8 MiB (16 MiB)
desc: 16x512 KiB
L3: 2x 32 MiB (64 MiB)
desc: 8x4 MiB
Speed (MHz):
avg: 1195
high: 1197
min/max: 1200/2100
boost: enabled
scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
governor: ondemand
cores:
1: 1195
2: 1196
....
bogomips: 267823
Or this Raptor Lake with 1 die, 4 clusters, and efficiency and perforance cores:
CPU:
Info:
model: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-1345U
bits: 64
type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake
level: v3
note: check
built: 2022+
process: Intel 7 (10nm)
family: 6
model-id: 0xBA (186)
stepping: 3
microcode: 0x411C
Topology:
cpus: 1
dies: 1
clusters: 4
cores: 10
threads: 12
mt: 2
tpc: 2
st: 8
smt: enabled
cache:
L1: 928 KiB
desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
L2: 6.5 MiB
desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB
L3: 12 MiB
desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz):
avg: 1535
high: 2820
min/max: 400/4700:3500
scaling:
driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave
cores:
1: 0
2: 400
3: 429
4: 926
5: 1244
6: 1139
7: 2680
8: 1021
9: 2582
10: 2744
11: 2820
12: 2445
bogomips: 59904
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
- Adds CPU Vulnerabilities (bugs) as known by your current kernel. 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, powered on, cycles, and some error cases if out of
range values. Note that for Pre-fail items, it will show the VALUE and THRESHOLD numbers. It will also fall
back for unknown attributes that are or have been failing and print out the Attribute name, value, threshold,
and failing message. This way even for unhandled Attribute names, you should get a solid report for full failā
ure 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/serial if available, and different from enclosure
model/serial, and corrects block sizes if necessary.
- Adds for USB drives USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds in drive temperature for some drives as well, and other useful data.
-a -E (--bluetooth)
- Adds (hciconfig only) extra line to Report:, Info:. Includes, if available, ACL MTU, SCO MTU, Link policy,
Link mode, and Service Classes.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe generation, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed:
lanes: (only items different from primary shown. Bluetooth PCIe rare).
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds, if present, bluetooth status: discoverable, active discoverable, and pairing items.
-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 instead.
- Adds (AMD/Intel/Nvidia, if available) process: [node] built: [years] to arch: item.
- Adds (if Linux and Nvidia device) non-free support information (if available). This can be useful for forum
support people to determine if the card supports current active legacy Nvidia 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/Inā
tel/Nvidia). Useful to help diagnose driver support issues, shows extra data that can help diagnose/debug.
Adds code: item if found and not the same as arch:.
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
inxi -Gaz
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel
non-free: 173.14.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: kernel: 3.12 xorg: 1.15
release: 173.14.39 arch: Rankine code: NV3x process: 130-150nm
built: 2003-05 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv,nvidia gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
With -y1:
inxi -Gaz -y1
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
driver: nouveau
v: kernel
non-free:
series: 173.14.xx
status: legacy (EOL)
last:
kernel: 3.12
xorg: 1.15
release: 173.14.39
arch: Rankine
code: NV3x
process: 130-150nm
built: 2003-05
ports:
active: VGA-1
empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:0322
class-ID: 0300
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe generation, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed:
lanes: (only items different from primary shown).
- Adds to Monitors built:, gamma:, ratio: (if found).
- Adds to OpenGL device memory and unified status, if present.
- Adds to Vulkan full device report, with full device names, ids, drivers, driver versions, surfaces.
- Adds Info: Tools: item. Tools are arranged into the following categories: api: (for EGL, OpenGL, Vulkan
etc.), de: (specific to a desktop environment), gpu (GPU monitoring and tweaking), wl: (Wayland specific), x11
(x11 specific).
X.org sample (with both xdpyinfo and xrandr data available), one scaled monitor:
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD
5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon
v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen
process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports:
active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 52.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
dri: r600 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2432x1024 s-dpi: 96
s-size: 641x270mm (25.24x10.63") s-diag: 696mm (27.38")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: built: 2004 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) gamma: 1.2 size: 338x270mm (13.31x10.63")
diag: 433mm (17") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell 1908FP serial:
built: 2008 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60 scale: 111% (0.9)
to: 1152x922 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4 size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.85")
diag: 482mm (19") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd r600 platforms: device: 0 drv: r600
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: r600
x11: drv: r600 inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /
6.11.5-1-liquorix-amd64 LLVM 19.1.1) device-ID: 1002:68f9
memory: 1000 MiB unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: xfce4-display-settings gpu: radeontop x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
xprop, xrandr
Wayland sample, with Sway/swaymsg, scaled monitor:
inxi -aGz
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6
code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,
HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony integrated camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:4
chip-ID: 04f2:b221 class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 compositor: Sway
v: 1.9 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: 1
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: AU Optronics 0x313c built: 2010 res:
mode: 1366x768 hz: 60 scale: 110% (1.1) to: 1241x698 dpi: 112
gamma: 1.2 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0
drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless:
drv: crocus wayland: drv: crocus inactive: x11
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1
note: incomplete (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics
3000 (SNB GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: wayland
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: xfce4-display-settings wl: swaymsg, wayland-info, wlr-randr
x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
-a -I - Adds to Power: other hibernate and suspend available (avail:) states, hibernate suspend image: size, and if
any suspend failures (fails:), how many.
- Adds power daemons/services (services:) running. Note not all services are daemons.
- Adds to Packages number of lib packages detected per package manager. Also adds detected package managers
with 0 packages listed. Adds package manager tools (supported: rpm, dpkg, pkgtool) Moves to Repos if -ra.
- Adds service control tool, tested for in the following order: systemctl rc-service rcctl service sv
/etc/rc.d /etc/init.d. Can be useful to know which you need when using an unfamiliar machine.
inxi -aI
Info:
Memory: total: N/A available: 31.27 GiB used: 14.9 GiB (47.7%)
Processes: 651 Power: uptime: 8d 21h 32m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 14 fails: 3 hibernate: platform
avail: shutdown,reboot,suspend,test_resume image: 12.49 GiB
services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: systemd v: 255
target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 3960 libs: 2184 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude
pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 alt: 5/6/8/9/10/11/12 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.21 running-in: xfce4-terminal pinxi: 3.3.32
-a -j (--swap), -a -P [swap], -a -P [swap]
- Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indicate if the value is the default value or not
(Linux only, and only if available). If not the default value, shows default value as well, e.g.
For -P per swap physical partition:
swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)
For -j row 1 report:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)
- Adds zswap data for row 1 report:
zswap: [yes/no] compressor: [type] max-pool: xx%
- Adds for zram swap type: active compression type, available compression types, and max compression streams.
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-a -J (--usb)
- Adds, if available, USB speed in IEC units MiB/s or GiB/s (may be incorrect on BSDs due to non reliable data
source). These are base 2 Bytes per second.
- Adds USB mode (Linux only), which is the technical terms the USB group uses to describe USB revisions. In
cases where speed and rev are an unknown combination, (and probably at least one is wrong) shows message.
There are no granular data sources in BSDs for accurate revision/lane/speed information, so mode cannot be deā
termined.
Sample:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Wacom ET-0405A [Graphire2 (4x5)] type: mouse
driver: usbhid,wacom interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 40mA chip-ID: 056a:0011 class-ID: 0301
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-8:5 info: SanDisk Ultra type: mass storage driver: usb-storage
interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
power: 896mA chip-ID: 0781:5581 class-ID: 0806
serial:
-a -L (--logical)
- Expands Component report, shows size / maj-min of components and devices, and mapped name for logical compoā
nents. 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.
- Adds RAM module firmware version, if detected. Not common.
-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 instead.
- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe generation, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed:
lanes: (only items different from primary shown).
- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).
- Adds Info: line (-n, -i only), with running network type services:. Note not all services are daemons. For
example, NetworkManager can be started with --no-daemon flag.
-a -o - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-a -p,-a -P
- Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, partition table, e.g.
raw-size: 60.00 GiB.
- Adds percent of raw size available to size: item, e.g.
size: 58.81 GiB (98.01%).
Note that used: 16.44 GiB (34.3%) percent refers to the available size, not the raw size.
- Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root and blockdev).
- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
-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 alternate kernel clock sources, if available (Linux only).
- Adds kernel boot parameters to Kernel section (if detected). Support varies by OS type.
- Adds advanced desktop (info:) item, and version. Currently supports KDE Frameworks and version.
- Adds other available (avail:) screensavers/lockers in tools: section. These are ones installed, but not necā
essarily active or running.
-a --slots
- Adds PCI children of the main slot bus ID, and their types and class IDs, recursively. Linux only, and only
if detected. Sample:
Slot: 0
type: PCIe
lanes: 16
status: in use
length: long
volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:03.1
children:
1: 07:00.0
class-ID: 0300
type: display
2: 07:00.1
class-ID: 0403
type: audio
ADVANCED OPTIONS
--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 basically 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 [bluetoothctl|bt-adapter|btmgmt|hciconfig|rfkill]
See --force [tool name]. Used to set -E report tool.
--dig Shortcut. See --force dig.
--display [:]
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 endlessly when running the option in console with
Intel graphics. The situation regarding other free drivers such as nouveau/ATI is currently unknown. It may be
that this is a bug with the Intel graphics driver - more information is required.
You can test this easily by running the following command out of X/display server: glxinfo -display :0
If it hangs, --display will not work.
--dmidecode
Shortcut. See --force dmidecode.
--downloader [curl|fetch|perl|wget]
Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.
--egl Shortcut. See --force egl.
--force [option(s)]
Various force options to allow users to override defaults. Values can be given as a comma separated list:
inxi -MJ --force dmidecode,lsusb
- bluetoothctl - Force use of bluetoothctl in -E.
- bt-adapter - Force use of bt-adapter tool in -E.
- btmgmt - Force use of btmgmt tool in -E.
- colors - Do not remove colors from piped or redirected output. Same as -Y -2.
- cpuinfo - Force use of cpuinfo over sys for cpu data in -C.
- dig - Temporary override of NO_DIG configuration item. Only use to test w/wo dig. Restores default behavior
for WAN IP, which is use dig if present.
- dmidecode - Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys data in some lines, e.g. -M or -B.
- egl - Force use of EGL graphics API even if internal rules block it from running due to possible hanging.
This is the case sometimes with Intel 32 bit Pentium 4 era Gen2 and older GPUs, but it's not consistent.
- hciconfig - Force use of hciconfig tool in -E.
- hddtemp - Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for disks.
- html-wan - Temporary override of NO_HTML_WAN configuration item. Only use to test w/wo HTML downloaders for
WAN IP. Restores default behavior for WAN IP, which is use HTML downloader if present and if dig failed.
- ifconfig - Force use of IF tool ifconfig for -i.
- ip - Force use of IF ip tool for -i (default).
- kscreen - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source kscreen-console.
- lsusb - Forces the USB data generator to use lsusb as data source (default). Overrides USB_SYS in user conā
figuration file(s).
- man - Force update / install of man page with -U if pinxi or using -U 3 dev branch. (Only active if -U is is
not disabled by maintainers). Default is to install always for inxi, and not for pinxi.
- no-dig - Overrides default use of dig to get WAN IP address. Allows use of normal downloader tool to get IP
addresses. Only use if dig is failing, since dig is much faster and more reliable in general than other methā
ods.
- no-doas - Skips the use of doas to run certain internal features (like hddtemp, file) with doas. Not related
to running inxi itself with doas/sudo or super user. Some systems will register errors which will then trigger
admin emails in such cases, so if you want to disable regular user use of doas (which requires 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-egl - Skip eglinfo sourced EGL graphics API in -G. Use if Graphics hangs or running a debugger data set
which hangs due to eglinfo bug ( only found on ancient Pentium 4 w/ Gen 2 GPUs).
- no-graphics-api - Skip graphics API in -G.
- no-html-wan - Overrides use of HTML downloaders to get WAN IP address. Use either only dig, or do not get
wan IP. Only use if dig is failing, and the HTML downloaders are taking too long, or are hanging or failing.
Make permanent with NO_HTML_WAN='true'
- no-man - Disables man page install with -U for master and active development branches. (Only active if -U is
is not disabled by maintainers). No man install is default for pinxi. Man install is default for inxi.
- no-opengl - Skip glxinfo sourced OpenGL graphics API in -G.
- no-ssl - Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (-U, -w, -i). Use if your system does not
have current SSL certificate 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 hddtemp, file) with sudo. Not reā
lated to running inxi itself with sudo or superuser. Some systems will register errors which will then trigger
admin emails in such cases, so if you want to disable regular user use of sudo (which requires configuration
to setup anyway for these options) just use this option, or NO_SUDO configuration item.
- no-vulkan - Skip vulkaninfo sourced Vulkan graphics API in -G.
- rfkill - Force use of rfkill tool in -E. rfkill does not support mac address data.
- rpm, pkg - Override disabled rpm package counts on primarily rpm run systems due to unacceptably slow execuā
tion times for this command on some systems:
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 sysā
tems 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 pkgā
tool/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 cerā
tain that /sys will also not return data.
- swaymsg - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source swaymsg.
- udevadm - Forces use of udevadm as data source (currently -m RAM data).
- usb-sys - Forces the USB data generator to use /sys as data source instead of lsusb (Linux only).
- vmstat - Forces use of vmstat for memory data.
- wayland - Wayland: Force use of Wayland data sources, disables x tools glxinfo, xrandr, xdpyinfo.
- wl-info - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wayland-info or weston-info.
- wlr-randr - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wlr-randr.
- wmctrl - Force System item wm to use wmctrl as data source, override default ps source.
--hddtemp
Shortcut. See --force hddtemp.
--html-wan
Shortcut. See --force --html-wan.
--ifconfig
Shortcut. See --force ifconfig.
--man Shortcut. See --force man.
--no-dig
Shortcut. See --force no-dig.
--no-doas
Shortcut. See --force no-doas.
--no-egl
Shortcut. See --force no-egl.
--no-html-wan
Shortcut. See --force no-html-wan.
--no-man
Shortcut. See --force no-man.
--no-opengl
Shortcut. See --force no-opengl.
--no-sensor-force
Overrides user set SENSOR_FORCE configuration value. Restores default behavior.
--no-ssl
Shortcut. See --force no-ssl.
--no-sudo
Shortcut. See --force no-sudo.
--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 sensors from sensor data. Make permanent with SENā
SORS_EXCLUDE configuration item. Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific device monitor chips are exā
cluded 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 report. Make permanent with SENSORS_USE conā
figuration item. Sensor array ID value must be the exact value shown in lm-sensors 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 report, 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-effects, since default behavior is to use all the sensors arrays and select which values
to use from them following a set sequence of rules. So if you force one to be used, you may lose data that was
used from another one.
Most likely best use is when one (or two) of the sensor arrays has all the sensor data you want, and you just
want to make sure inxi 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 codeberg.org issue if you find you need to use --tty (including
the full -Ixxx line) so we can figure out how to add your program to the list of whitelisted programs.
You can see what inxi believed started it in the -Ixxx line, Shell: or Client: item. Please let us know what
that result was so we can add it to the parent start program whitelist.
In some cases, you may want to also use --no-filter/-Z option if you want to see filtered values. Filtering is
turned on by default 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 numbers.
1 - Debug downloader failures. Turns off silent/quiet mode for curl, wget, and fetch. Shows more downloader
action information. Shows some more information for Perl downloader.
1-xx - See codeberg.org inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt for 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 report in a file.
* tree traversal data file(s) read from /proc and /sys, and other system data.
* xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.
* data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.
--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 either built-in or external program output.
RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT
To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method from the list below:
Hexchat, XChat, Irssi
(and many other IRC clients) /exec -o inxi [options] If you 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 program if your distribution 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/konversation/scripts/inxi
KDE 5: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/konversation/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 + deā
rived), 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 overridden by creating a /etc/inxi.conf.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.
In case the distro is using either /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc as non core tool default location, inxi will use those
paths instead, with the inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf override option.
You can also override, per user, with a user configuration file found in one of the following locations (inxi will
store its config file using the following precedence):
if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if $HOME/.config/inxi.conf exists, it will go there, and as
a last default, the legacy location is used), i.e.:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inxi.conf > $HOME/.config/inxi.conf > $HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf > /usr/etc/inxi.conf >
/usr/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /usr/local/etc/inxi.conf > /usr/local/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf >
/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /etc/inxi.conf
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
See the documentation page for more complete information on how to set these up, and for a complete list of options:
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm
Basic Options
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, wrapping 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 inā
formation on downloaders and Perl downloaders.
FILTER_STRING Default . Any string you prefer to see instead 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 addresses.
LINES_MAX Values: [-2-xxx]. See -Y for explanation and values. Use -Y -3 to restore default unlimited output
lines. Avoid using this in general unless the machine is a headless system and you want the output to be alā
ways 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 Downloaders and force use of dig only, or nothing
if dig disabled as well. Same as --no-html-wan. Only use if dig is failing, and HTML downloaders are hanging.
NO_SUDO Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of sudo.
PARTITION_SORT Overrides default partition report sort. See --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 report. 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 upā
date the configuration 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 explicit -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://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi/issues
Forums Post on inxi forums: https://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-33.html
IRC irc.oftc.net / irc.libera.chat
You can also visit channel: #smxi to post issues on either network.
HOMEPAGE
https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi
- Home of inxi source repository
https://codeberg.org/smxi/pinxi
- Home of pinxi (inxi development version), docs and data.
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
- The main docs for inxi. See pinxi repository for more technical resources.
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) 2008-2025 Harald Hope
This man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and is maintained by Harald Hope (aka h2 or TechAdā
min).
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
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 development and debugging new or refactored features,
particularly the redone CPU logic of 2021-12.
Siduction forum members, who have helped get some features working by providing a large number of datasets that have
revealed possible variations, particularly for the RAM -m option.
AntiX users and admins, who have helped greatly with testing and debugging, particularly for the 3.0.0 release.
ArcherSeven (Max), Brett Bohnenkamper (aka KittyKatt), and Iotaka, who always manage to find the weirdest or most exā
treme hardware and setups that help make inxi much more robust.
For the vastly underrated skill of report error/glitch catching, Pete Haddow. His patience and focus in going
through inxi repeatedly to find errors and inconsistencies is much appreciated.
For a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of testing and setup many remote access systems for
testing and development.
For testing, bug finding, suggestions, feature requests, MrMazda. He has over the years has helped shape inxi into
what it is today, in particular but not limited to, the Graphics features.
All the inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum moderators, 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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