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LonelyStar

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Conky: outputing # symbol

Hi,

I use conky for dzen2 piping.

For setting colors, I need to output the "#" symbol.
But conky things, the symbol starts a comment.

Can i somehow make conky to output the symbol?

Thanks!
Nathanh

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

Quote it?

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LonelyStar

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

Hi,

I am not sure, what you mean with "Quote it".
But if you mean this:

\#

or

"#"

both variants to not work

moljac024

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

As fair as I know conky doesn't allow comments after the TEXT part, it should print everything...

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LonelyStar

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

I read that too ...

what does this output on your systems:
background no
out_to_console yes
out_to_x no
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0

TEXT
#Hallo
Again Hallo

In my case, the output is just "Again Hallo"

bgc1954

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

Using conky-cli with dzen2, if I use a single line output #Hallo Hallo then I see nothing in my dzen2 bar.  If I reverse the two and put Hallo#Hallo it all outputs fine.  As long as the # symbol isn't the first character, conky will output it to dzen2, in my case anyway.

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arkham

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

I read that too ...

what does this output on your systems:
background no
out_to_console yes
out_to_x no
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0

TEXT
#Hallo
Again Hallo

In my case, the output is just "Again Hallo"

FYI, using the normal conky my output is "Again Hallo" too.

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bgc1954

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

Using normal conky now--thanks again moljac024--and it definately ignores everything after a # sign now.

I use a long execi with echo to show the temp on my AMD cpu and so I thought i'd try using something like that.  It's a roundabout way to display the # sign but I tried it and it works.

${execi 5 echo "#"}

But there must be a simpler way to do this???

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

Downgrade to 1.7.0. For me the functionality was broken in 1.7.1.

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brisbin33

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

psuedo-old thread, oh well.

i was annoyed by this as well... glad i found your hack, erm fix.  i submitted this as a bug to conky but they rejected it saying ppl need to put comments after TEXT.  who's putting comments after TEXT?

anyways, i use

TEXT
^fg(${execi 3600 echo "#909090"})Some light grey text^fg() Some normal text

and it works wonderfully in my dzen (though i suppose the interval could be as big as one wanted to save resources). 

again, thanks for the workaround .

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Boris Bolgradov

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

http://conky.sourceforge.net/changelog.html
2009-05-09
Allow the use of '#' for comments within text area (can be escaped with '\#')

Doesn't work, though

Last edited by Boris Bolgradov (2009-07-19 07:58:30)

brisbin33

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Re: Conky: outputing # symbol

someone just posted a patch that allows you to use \# as intended.  i just applied it, it's working great.

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