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NAME
inxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi - Single line, short form. Very basic output.
inxi [-AbBCdDfFGhHiIlmMnNopPrRsSuw] [-c NUMBER] [-v NUMBER]
inxi [-t (c or m or cm or mc NUMBER)] [-x -OPTION(s)] [-xx -OPTION(s)] [-xxx -OPTION(s)]
inxi [--help] [--recommends] [--version] [-@ NUMBER]
DESCRIPTION
inxi is a command line system information script built for for console and IRC. It is also used for forum
technical support, as a debugging tool, to quickly ascertain user system configuration and hardware. inxi
shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, GCC version(s), Processes, RAM usage, and a
wide variety of other useful information.
inxi output varies between CLI and IRC, with some default filters and color options applied to IRC use.
Script colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or changed using the -c color options listed in the
OPTIONS section below.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi filters out automatically on IRC things like your
network card mac address, WAN and LAN IP, your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other
things.
Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger this filtering with the -z option
(-Fz, for example). To override the IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful to debug
network connection issues online in a private chat, for example.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. Either group the letters together or separate them.
Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion unless using
-t.
For example: inxi -AG or inxi -A -G or inxi -c10
STANDARD OPTIONS
-A Show Audio/sound card information.
-b Shows basic output, short form (previously -d). Same as: inxi -v 2
-B Shows Battery data, charge, condition, plus extra information (if battery present). Uses /sys or
for BSDs, dmidecode. dmidecode does not have very much information, and none about current battery
state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when using /sys data.
Note on the charge item, the output shows the current charge, and the percent of the available
capacity, which can be less than the original design capacity. In the following example, the
actual current capacity of the battery is 22.2 Wh, so the charge shows what percent of the current
capacity is charged.
For example: 20.1 Wh 95.4%
The condition item shows the current available capacity / original design capacity, then the
percentage of original capacity available in the battery. In the following example, the battery
capacity is only 61% of it's original amount.
For example: 22.2/36.4 Wh 61%
-c [0-32] Available color schemes. Scheme number is required.
Supported color schemes: 0-42
-c [94-99]
Color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi starting which lets you set the config
file value for the selection.
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 specific color type removes the global color selection.
-C Show full CPU output, including per CPU clockspeed and CPU max speed (if available). If max speed
data present, shows (max) in short output formats (inxi, inxi -b) if CPU actual speed matches CPU
max speed. If CPU max speed does not match CPU actual speed, shows both actual and max speed
information. See -x and -xx for more options.
CPU description includes technical CPU(s) description: (-MT-MCP)
* MT - Multi/Hyper Threaded CPUs, more than 1 thread per core. (Previously HT)
* MCP - Multi Core Processor (More than 1 core per CPU)
* SMP - Symmetric Multi Processing (More than 1 physical CPUs)
* UP - Uni (single core) Processor
-d Shows optical drive data. Same as -Dd. With -x, adds features line to output. Also shows floppy
disks if present. Note that there is no current way to get any information about the floppy device
that I am aware of, so it will simply show the floppy id, without any extra data. -xx adds a few
more features.
-D Show full hard Disk info, not only model, ie: /dev/sda ST380817AS 80.0GB. Shows disk space total
+ used percentage. The disk used percentage includes space used by swap partition(s), since those
are not usable for data storage. Note that with RAID disks, the percentage will be wrong since the
total is computed from the disk sizes, but the used is computed from mounted partition used
percentages. This small defect may get corrected in the future. Also, unmounted partitions are not
counted in disk use percentages since inxi has no access to that data.
-f Show all cpu flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with -F to avoid spamming. ARM cpus:
show features items.
-F Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters, plus -s and -n. Does not show
extra verbose options like -d -f -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x unless you use those arguments in the
command, like: inxi -Frmxx
-G Show Graphic card information. Card(s), Display Server (vendor and version number), for example:
Display Server: Xorg 1.15.1
as well as screen resolution(s), OpenGL renderer, OpenGL core profile version/OpenGL version.
If detected (currently only available if on a desktop: will attempt to show the server type, ie,
x11, wayland, mir. When xorg is present, its version information will show after the server type
in parentheses. Future versions will show compositor information as well.
-h The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal window. Set script global
COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a different default value, or use -y <width> to temporarily override
the defaults or actual window width.
--help Same as -h
-H The help menu, plus developer options. Do not use dev options in normal operation!
-i Show Wan IP address, and shows local interfaces (requires ifconfig or ip network tool). Same as
-Nni. Not shown with -F for user security reasons, you shouldn't paste your local/wan IP. Shows
both IPv4 and IPv6 link IP address.
-I Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, irc client (or shell type if run in shell, not irc),
inxi version. See -x and -xx for extra information (init type/version, runlevel).
-l Show partition labels. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pl (or -plu).
-m Memory (RAM) data. Does not show with -b or -F unless you use -m explicitly. Ordered by system
board physical system memory array(s) (Array-[number] capacity:), and individual memory devices
(Device-[number]). Physical memory array(s) data shows array capacity, and number of devices
supported, and Error Correction information. Devices shows locator data (highly variable in
syntax), size, speed, type (eg: type: DDR3).
Note that -m uses dmidecode, which must be run as root (or start inxi with sudo), unless you
figure out how to set up sudo to permit dmidecode to read /dev/mem as user. Note that speed will
not show if No Module Installed is found in size. This will also turn off Bus Width data output if
it is null.
If memory information was found, and if the -I line or the -tm item have not been triggered, will
also print the ram used/total.
Because dmidecode data is extremely unreliable, inxi will try to make best guesses. If you see
(check) after capacity number, you should check it for sure with 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 wrong max module size, if present, or max capacity.
-M Show machine data. Device, Motherboard, Bios, and if present, System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older
systems/kernels without the required /sys data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. If using
dmidecode, may also show bios revision as well as version. -! 33 can force use of dmidecode data
instead of /sys. Will also attempt to show if the system was booted by BIOS, UEFI, or UEFI
[Legacy]. The last one is legacy BIOS boot mode in a systemboard using UEFI but booted as
BIOS/Legacy.
Device 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 to positively confirm which vm it is. Primary vm
identification is via systemd-detect-virt but fallback tests that should support some BSDs as well
are used. Less commonly used or harder to detect VMs may not be correctly detected, if you get a
wrong output, post an issue and we'll get it fixed if possible.
Due to unreliable vendor data, device will show: desktop; laptop; notebook; server; blade plus
some obscure stuff that inxi is unlikely to ever run on.
-n Show Advanced Network card information. Same as -Nn. Shows interface, speed, mac id, state, etc.
-N Show Network card information. With -x, shows PCI BusID, Port number.
-o Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and LABEL if available). Shows file system
type if you have file installed, if you are root OR if you have added to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7
or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
Does not show components (partitions that create the md raid array) of md-raid arrays.
-p Show full partition information (-P plus all other detected partitions).
-P Show Partition information (shows what -v 4 would show, but without extra data). Shows, if
detected: / /boot /home /opt /tmp /usr /var /var/tmp /var/log. Use -p to see all mounted
partitions.
-r Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo types:
APK (Alpine Linux + derived versions)
APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived versions)
PACMAN (Arch Linux + derived versions)
PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
PORTAGE (Gentoo, Sabayon + derived versions)
PORTS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)
SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)
URPMQ (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)
YUM/ZYPP (Fedora, Redhat, Suse + derived versions)
(as distro data is collected more will be added. If your's is missing please show us how to get
this information and we'll try to add it.)
-R Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, and components, and extra data with -x / -xx.
md-raid: If device is resyncing, shows resync progress line as well.
Note: Only md-raid and ZFS are supported. Other software raid types could be added, but only if
users supply all data required, and if the software raid actually can be made to give the required
output.
Note: due to the complexity, only one raid type per system is supported. Md-raid overrides ZFS if
no ZFS was found.
--recommends
Checks inxi application dependencies + recommends, and directories, then shows what package(s) you
need to install to add support for that feature.
-s Show sensors output (if sensors installed/configured): mobo/cpu/gpu temp; detected fan speeds. Gpu
temp only for Fglrx/Nvidia drivers. Nvidia shows screen number for > 1 screens.
-S 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, like shell/panel etc.
-t [c or m or cm or mc NUMBER] Show processes. If followed by numbers 1-20, shows that number of
processes for each type (default: 5; if in irc, max: 5)
Make sure to have no space between letters and numbers (-t cm10 - right, -t cm 10 - wrong).
-t c - cpu only. With -x, shows also memory for that process on same line.
-t m - memory only. With -x, shows also cpu for that process on same line. If the -I line is not
triggered, will also show the system used/total ram information in the first Memory line of
output.
-t cm - cpu+memory. With -x, shows also cpu or memory for that process on same line.
-u Show partition UUIDs. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pu (or -plu).
-U Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function.
If inxi -h has no listing for -U then it's disabled.
Auto-update script. Note: if you installed as root, you must be root to update, otherwise user is
fine. Also installs / updates this Man Page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if
/usr/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.
Previous versions of inxi manually installed man page were installed to /usr/share/man/man1. If
you want the man page to go into /usr/local/share/man/man1 move it there and inxi will update to
that path from then on.
-V inxi version information. Prints information then exits.
--version
same as -V
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is required. Should not be used with -b or -F.
Supported levels: 0-7 Examples : inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4
-v 0 - Short output, same as: inxi
-v 1 - Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU (cores, model, clock speed, and max speed, if available) + -G +
basic Disk + -I.
-v 2 - Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, Battery (-B) (if available), and shows basic hard
disk data (names only). Same as: inxi -b
-v 3 - Adds advanced CPU (-C); network (-n) data; triggers -x advanced data option.
-v 4 - Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present): / /home /var/ /boot Shows full disk data
(-D)
-v 5 - Adds audio card (-A); memory/ram (-m);sensors (-s), partition label (-l) and UUID (-u), short
form of optical drives.
-v 6 - Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-o), optical drive data (-d); triggers
-xx extra data option.
-v 7 - Adds network IP data (-i); triggers -xxx
-w Adds weather line. Note, this depends on an unreliable api so it may not always be working in the
future. To get weather for an alternate location, use -W <location_string>. See also -x, -xx, -xxx
option. Please note, your distribution's maintainer may chose to disable this feature, so if -w
or -W don't work, that's why.
-W <location_string>
Get weather/time for an alternate location. Accepts postal/zip code, city,state pair, or
latitude,longitude. Note: city/country/state names must not contain spaces. Replace spaces with
'+' sign. No spaces around , (comma). Use only ascii letters in city/state/country names, sorry.
Examples: -W 95623 OR -W Boston,MA OR -W45.5234,-122.6762 OR -W new+york,ny OR -W bodo,norway.
-y <integer >= 80>
This is an absolute width override which sets the output line width max. Overrides COLS_MAX_IRC /
COLS_MAX_CONSOLE globals, or the actual widths of the terminal. If used with -h or -c 94-99, put
-y option first or the override will be ignored. Cannot be used with --help/--version/--recommends
type long options. Example: inxi -y 130 -Fxx
-z Adds security filters for IP addresses, Mac, location (-w), and user home directory name. Default
on for irc clients.
-Z Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging networking issues in irc for example.
EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are for long form only, and can be triggered by one or more -x, like -xx. Alternately, 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. Can be added
to any long form option list, like: -bxx or -Sxxx
There are 3 extra data levels: -x; -xx; and -xxx
The following shows which lines / items get extra information with each extra data level.
-x -A - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each Audio device.
-x -A - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Audio device.
-x -B - Shows Vendor/Model, battery status (if battery present).
-x -C - bogomips on CPU (if available); CPU Flags (short list).
-x -C - CPU microarchitecture + revision (like Sandy Bridge, K8, ARMv8, P6, and so on). Only shows if
detected. Newer microarchitectures will have to be added as they appear, and require the CPU
family id and model id.
Example: arch: Sandy Bridge rev.2, arch: K8 rev.F+
-x -d - Adds items to features line of optical drive; adds rev version to optical drive.
-x -D - Hdd temp with disk data if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root OR if you have added to
/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
-x -G - Direct rendering status for Graphics.
-x -G - (for single gpu, nvidia driver) screen number gpu is running on.
-x -G - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Graphics card.
-x -i - Show IP v6 additional scope data, like Global, Site, Temporary for each interface.
Note that there is no way I am aware of to filter out the deprecated IP v6 scope site/global
temporary addresses from the output of ifconfig. ip tool shows that clearly.
ip-v6-temporary - (ip tool only), scope global temporary. Scope global temporary deprecated is
not shown
ip-v6-global - scope global (ifconfig will show this for all types, global, global temporary, and
global temporary deprecated, ip shows it only for global)
ip-v6-link - scope link (ip/ifconfig) - default for -i.
ip-v6-site - scope site (ip/ifconfig). This has been deprecated in IPv6, but still exists.
ifconfig may show multiple site values, as with global temporary, and global temporary deprecated.
ip-v6-unknown - unknown scope
-x -I - Show current init system (and init rc in some cases, like OpenRC). With -xx, shows init/rc
version number, if available. -x -I - Show system GCC, default. With -xx, also show other
installed GCC versions.
-x -I - Show current runlevel (not available with all init systems).
-x -I - If in shell (not in IRC client, that is), show shell version number (if available).
-x -m - Shows memory device Part Number (part:). Useful to order new or replacement memory sticks etc.
Usually part numbers are unique, particularly if you use the word memory in the search as well.
With -xx, shows Serial Number and Manufactorer as well.
-x -m - If present, shows maximum memory module/device size in the Array line. Only some systems will
have this data available.
-x -N - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each Network card;
-x -N - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Network card.
-x -R - md-raid: Shows component raid id. Adds second RAID Info line: raid level; report on drives (like
5/5); blocks; chunk size; bitmap (if present). Resync line, shows blocks synced/total blocks.
- zfs-raid: Shows raid array full size; available size; portion allocated to RAID (ie, not
available as storage)."
-x -S - Desktop toolkit if available (GNOME/XFCE/KDE only); Kernel gcc version.
-x -t - Adds memory use output to cpu (-xt c), and cpu use to memory (-xt m). For -xt c will also show
system Used/Total ram data if -t m (memory) is not used AND -I is not triggered.
-x -w / -W
- Adds wind speed and time zone (-w only), and makes output go to two lines.
-xx -A - Adds vendor:product ID of each Audio device.
-xx -B - Adds serial number, voltage (if available).
Note that volts shows the data (if available) as: Voltage Now / Minimum Design Voltage
-xx -C - Shows Minimum CPU speed (if available).
-xx -D - Adds disk serial number.
-xx -D - Adds disk firmware revision number, if available (nvme and possibly other types).
-xx -G - Adds vendor:product ID of each Graphics card.
-xx -G - Wayland/Mir only: if found, attempts to show compositor (experimental).
-xx -G - For free drivers, adds OpenGL compatibility version number if it's available. For nonfree
drivers, the core version and compatibility versions are the same. Example:
3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 (compat-v: 3.0)
-xx -I - Show init type version number (and rc if present).
-xx -I - Adds other detected installed gcc versions to primary gcc output (if present).
-xx -I - Show, if detected, system default runlevel. Supports Systemd/Upstart/Sysvinit type defaults.
Note that not all systemd systems have the default value set, in that case, if present, it will
use the data from /etc/inittab.
-xx -I - Adds parent program (or tty) that started shell, if not IRC client, to shell information.
-xx -m - Shows memory device Manufacturer and Serial Number.
-xx -m - 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.
-xx -M - Adds chassis information, if any data for that is available. Also shows BIOS rom size if using
dmidecode.
-xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID of each Network card.
-xx -R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present); algorythm, U data. Adds system info sline (kernel
support, read ahead, raid events). Adds if present, unused device line. If device is resyncing,
shows resync progress line as well.
-xx -S - Adds, if run in X, display manager type to Desktop information, if present. If none, shows N/A.
Supports most known display managers, like xdm, gdm, kdm, slim, lightdm, or mdm.
-xx -w / -W
- Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
-xx -@ <11-14>
- Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.techpatterns.com.
-xxx -B
- Adds battery chemistry (like: Li-ion), cycles (NOTE: there appears to be a problem with the
Linux kernel obtaining the cycle count, so this almost always shows 0. There's nothing that can be
done about this glitch, the data is simply not available as of 2016-04-18), location (only
available from dmidecode derived output).
-xxx -m
- Memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, total width. eg: bus width: 64 bit (total:
72 bits). Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmidecode output, so inxi will
take the larger value as total if present. If no total width data is found, then inxi will not
show that item.
-xxx -m
- Adds device Type Detail, eg: DDR3 (Synchronous).
-xxx -m
- If present, will add memory module voltage. Only some systems will have this data available.
-xxx -S
- Adds, if run in X, shell/panel type info to Desktop information, if present. If none, shows
nothing. Supports some current desktop extras like gnome-panel, lxde-panel, and others. Added
mainly for Mint support.
-xxx -w / -W
- Adds location (city state country), weather observation time, altitude of system. If wind
chill, heat index, or dew point are available, shows that data as well.
ADVANCED OPTIONS
-! 31 Turns off hostname in System line. Useful, with -z, for anonymizing your inxi output for posting
on forums or IRC.
-! 32 Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file value (if set): B_SHOW_HOST='false'.
-! 33 Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys data in some lines, like -M.
-! 34 Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (-U, -w, -W, -i). Use if your system does
not have current SSL certificate lists, or if you have problems making a connection for any
reason. Only works with wget, curl, and fetch. This must go before the other options you use.
-! 40 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 this format: -! 40:1 it would get it from display 1 instead, or
any display you specify as long as there is no space between -! 40 and the :[display id].
Note that in some cases, -! 40 will cause inxi to hang endlessly when running the option in
console with Intel graphics (confirmed). Other free drivers like nouveau/ati unknown yet. It may
be that this is a bug with the intel graphics driver, more information required.
You can test this easily by running this command out of X/display server: glxinfo -display :0
If it hangs, -! 40 will not work.
-! 41 Bypass Curl as a downloader option. Priority is: Curl, Wget, Fetch, HTTP::Tiny, OpenBSD only: ftp
-! 42 Bypass Fetch as a downloader option.Priority is: Curl, Wget, Fetch, HTTP::Tiny, OpenBSD only: ftp
-! 43 Bypass Wget as a downloader option. Priority is: Curl, Wget, Fetch, HTTP::Tiny, OpenBSD only: ftp
-! 44 Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. This basically forces the downloader selection
to use Perl 5.x HTTP::Tiny, which is in general slower than Curl or Wget but it may help bypass
issues with downloading.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
-% Overrides defective or corrupted data.
-@ Triggers debugger output. Requires debugging level 1-14 (8-10 - logging of data). Less than 8 just
triggers inxi debugger output on screen.
-@ [1-7] - On screen debugger output.
-@ 8 - Basic logging. Check /home/yourname/.inxi/inxi*.log
-@ 9 - Full file/sys info logging.
-@ 10 - Color logging.
-@ <11-14>
The following create a tar.gz file of system data, plus collecting the inxi output to file: To
automatically upload debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.techpatterns.com:
inxi -xx@ <11-14>
For alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
inxi -! ftp.yourserver.com/incoming -xx@ 14
-@ 11 - With tree traversal data file read of /sys, and other system data.
-@ 12 - With xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.
-@ 13 - With data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.
-@ 14 - Everything, full data collection.
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 script output.
RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT
To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method from the list below:
Xchat, irssi
(and many other IRC clients) /exec -o inxi [options] If you leave off the -o, only you will see
the output on your local IRC client.
Konversation
/cmd inxi [options]
To run inxi in konversation as a native script if your distribution or inxi package did not do
this for you, create this symbolic link [the first works for KDE 4, the second for KDE 5]:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversation/scripts/inxi
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/
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]. Also, newer WeeChats have dropped the -curses part of their program name,
ie: weechat instead of weechat-curses.
Deprecated:
Before WeeChat can run external scripts like inxi, you need to install the weechat-plugins
package. This is automatically installed for Debian users. Next, if you don't already have it,
you need to install shell.py, which is a python script.
In a web browser, Click on the download button at:
https://www.weechat.org/scripts/source/stable/shell.py.html/
Make the script executable by
chmod +x shell.py
Move it to your home folder: /.weechat/python/autoload/ then logout, and start WeeChat with
weechat-curses
Top of screen should say what pythons scripts have loaded, and should include shell. Then to run
inxi, you would enter a command like this:
/shell -o inxi -bx
If you leave off the -o, only you will see the output on your local weechat. WeeChat users may
also like to check out the weeget.py
INITIALIZATION FILE
inxi will read the following configuration/initialization files in the following order:
/etc/inxi.conf is the default configurations. These can be overridden by user configurations found in one
of the following locations (inxi will place its config file using the following precedence as well, that
is, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if $HOME/.conf/inxi.conf exists, it will go
there, and as a last default, the legacy location is used:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inxi.conf or $HOME/.conf/inxi.conf or $HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf
See wiki pages for more information on how to set these up:
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm
BUGS
Please report bugs using the following resources.
You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool which will upload a data dump of all 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.
inxi main website/source/wiki, file an issue report:
https://github.com/smxi/inxi/issues
post on inxi developer forums:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-32.html
You can also visit
irc.oftc.net channel: #smxi to post issues.
HOMEPAGE
https://github.com/smxi/inxi https://smxi.org/
AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE
inxi is is a fork of locsmif's largely unmaintained yet very clever, infobash script.
Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Michiel de Boer a.k.a. locsmif
inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-17 Harald Hope
Initial CPU logic, konversation version logic, occasional maintenance fixes, and the initial xiin.py tool
for /sys parsing (deprecated but still very much appreciated for all the valuable debugger data it helped
generate): Scott Rogers
Further fixes (listed as known):
Horst Tritremmel <hjt at sidux.com>
Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - usb audio patch; swap percent used patch.
Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode -M patch for older systems with no /sys
And a special thanks to 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.
A further thanks to the Siduction forum members, who have helped get some features working by providing a
lot of datasets that revealed possible variations, particularly for the ram -m option.
Further thanks to the various 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, big thanks locsmif, who figured out a lot of the core methods, logic, and tricks used in
inxi.
This Man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and is maintained by Harald Hope (aka
h2 or TechAdmin).