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8472

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-05-15

Posts: 88

[SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

Hi,

three various PCs (with openbox & conky) affected likewise.

Some time ago, conky graphs started to get beyond their graph borders, like this: https://i.imgur.com/ux46bwV.png
It's broken even with the code shortened to a minimum, e.g.:

conky.config = {
        update_interval = 2.0,
        total_run_times = 0
}

conky.text = [[

${color yellow}Disk IO ${hr 1}${color}
sda ${diskiograph /dev/sda}

CPU total usage history ${alignr}${cpu}%
${cpugraph}

]]

Interesting about it is, that the problem happens only after conky start, or conky config reload (conkyrc config file has been saved (even w/o any change)).
Also, when fresh started or reloaded, the new graph line is not broken anymore and from that time forward, it will show normally (until config reload), like this: https://i.imgur.com/FMk7Cve.png
After a time, when the corrupted graph data reach their left border, corrupted lines will disappear and conky is showing the data fine, but again until the config reload only.

Any idea what might be causing this, please?

Last edited by 8472 (2019-08-29 09:59:13)

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I see this with conky on both i3 and Openbox.  I've not found a solution.

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8472

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-05-15

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I noticed some difference at another graph "downspeedgraph" and "upspeedgraph" where I'm using optional arguments "(height),(width)", and these two network graphs do not appear to be affected.
So, this could be some workaround, although a full solution would be much better to have, in order to keep the graph's width dynamic.

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saf1

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

yes there is some unfixed issues in conky 1.11.4 like:
Conky memery shows wrong value
Display of the Network Speed is incorrect
High bars in cpugraph with latest conky
I hope they get fixed soon.

8472

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-05-15

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

yes there is some unfixed issues in conky 1.11.4 like:
Conky memery shows wrong value
Display of the Network Speed is incorrect
High bars in cpugraph with latest conky
I hope they get fixed soon.

Thanks for the last reference, that's it!

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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

For me I stopped using conky after these bugs, I now use ksysguard which shows right values.

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I try to use the conky 1.11.5-1 new release.

But the download speed seems wrong again.

I compared values from ksysguard and conky when I launched a test.

ksysguard : 3,7 Mio/s
conky : 376K

during the same download test.

But 3,7 Mio = 3788,8 Kio
or   3,7 Mio = 3879,73 K

nothing to do with the conky value.

The RAM usage seems wrong too:

ksysguard : 0,67 Gio
conky : 840M

0,67 Gio = 686,08 Mio
0,67 Gio = 719,407 M

Has someone seen these wrong values too?
It's very disappointing.

Edit: Mio Gio are the french versions of MiB GiB

Last edited by berbae (2019-08-15 20:35:55)

alfkrz

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Registered: 2019-08-15

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I kind of found a workaround myself, just for graph lines getting out of borders. The trick that worked for me was to "shorten" the graph box. The relevant snippet in .conkyrc:

${cpugraph 30,200 000000 ffffff}

I noticed that under certain values outlined graph lines didn't appear when reloading conky, and went back when reached that value or longer.
I hope this helps.

stanna

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From: melb.au

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 99

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

i notice it with download/upload speed graphs in xfce4 as soon as arch is booted but they slowly slide out of existence so i have never bothered to follow it up.

Last edited by stanna (2019-08-15 22:28:03)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

But the main problem is the wrong values for download speed and RAM usage.
The issue with 'graph lines getting out of borders' is now solved with the last release.

I cannot use conky as system monitor if it doesn't show true values, as such it is useless for me.

I'd appreciate if somebody could confirm the wrong values shown in numbers or graphs.

Mampfi

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Registered: 2018-03-16

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I can confirm the wrong RAM values. I even get negative RAM values LIKE '-5,70GiB' and membar shows full RAM usage. The correct and the false RAM values alternate after every refresh of conky.

Lines:
Ram ${alignr}$mem / $memmax ($memperc%)
${membar 4}

archimboldo

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Registered: 2016-03-07

Posts: 232

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I can confirm the wrong RAM values. I even get negative RAM values LIKE '-5,70GiB' and membar shows full RAM usage. The correct and the false RAM values alternate after every refresh of conky.

I "fixed" the above mentioned issue by replacing conky with conky-lua from AUR.

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voodoo-magic

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Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

I also have the error with the negative RAM, here is already reported about it.

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/877

8472

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-05-15

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

The update of "1.11.5-1" obviously fixed the %subject% problem for me.

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voodoo-magic

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Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

No changes with the new Conky Version 1.11.5-2 back to Version 1.11.4-1.

voodoo-magic

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Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

Who can tagged a new Conky Version for Arch Linux?

Thanks!

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/883

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,042

Re: [SOLVED] conky graph lines reach out of graph borders

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63597