Text color with conky

Fleet · 2011-02-09 19:52:51

Hello,

I have used Arch for some time, but have just started using conky. I use dwm and want my conky text to have two different colors, but the text color doesn't change from the color I have set dwm to use for the normal foreground color (color of unselected tag names in dwm's bar), when I use

default_color white

or

${color white}

in my .conkyrc.

My .conkyrc:

background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 2
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
default_color white

TEXT
[$mpd_smart] [CPU ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpu cpu2}% AVG ${loadavg}] [TEMP ${acpitemp}C] [MEM $memperc%] [MAIL ${execpi 300 python ~/.scripts/gmail.py}] [ETH ${downspeed eth0}/s ${upspeed eth0}/s] [${time %a %b %d %I:%M%p}]

It seems that dwm overrules my .conkyrc or I have made a mistake in configuration.
Best regards

litemotiv · 2011-02-09 20:26:16

The statusbar in dwm doesn't support custom colors, you will need to use dzen2 to achieve this or patch dwm.

Fleet · 2011-02-09 20:40:45

Do you know if there any patches available or some descriptions of how this is accomplished?

jasonwryan · 2011-02-09 20:51:16

The statuscolors patch allows you to write colours to the bar http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuscolors

There are a few threads here about using conky piped to dzen2 (which may be more like what you are after)...

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#1 2011-02-09 19:52:51

Text color with conky

#2 2011-02-09 20:26:16

Re: Text color with conky

#3 2011-02-09 20:40:45

Re: Text color with conky

#4 2011-02-09 20:51:16

Re: Text color with conky

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