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Pnevma

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Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 112

[Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

That vertical rectangle box-thing keeps showing up at the end. I know it has something to do with the "TEXT" configuration command in Conky since if I have nothing after that, it won't show up... but with any text, it will.

Thanks for any help.

#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window no
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager 

#borders
draw_borders no
border_margin 1

#shades
draw_shades no

#position
gap_x 6
gap_y 6
alignment top_middle

#behaviour
update_interval 1

#colour
default_color  8f8f8f
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 262626

#font
use_xft yes
xftfont Helvetica:pixelsize=10

#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer none
minimum_size 700 0

#mpd
mpd_host localhost
mpd_port 6600

TEXT

${voffset -1}${alignc}D&T: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${time %B %d %I:%M %p}${color} - Memory: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${mem}${color} - CPU: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${cpu}%${color} - C1: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -c15-16}C${color} C2: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 1" | cut -c15-16}C${color} C3: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 2" | cut -c15-16}C${color} C4: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 3" | cut -c15-16}C${color} GPU:${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 1 nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp |grep '):' | cut -c 38-40}C${color} - Down: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${downspeed eth0} KB/s${color} - Up: ${color e0e0e0}${upspeed eth0} KB/s${color} - Arch: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${execi 10800 perl ~/.scripts/conky-updates.pl}${color} - Mail: ${color e0e0e0}(${texeci 500 perl ~/.scripts/gmail.pl n}) ${color}- Weather: ${color e0e0e0}${execi 300 /home/timothy/.scripts/weather.sh 44026}${color}

Last edited by Pnevma (2008-04-24 12:06:36)

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

Does that symbol still display if you disable the weather script?

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Pnevma

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

Yeah.

Edit; I should of noted that I'm using version 1.5.1-1 from the PKGBUILD for 1.4.9-1 in extra (abs).

Last edited by Pnevma (2008-04-24 02:23:50)

hellknight

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From: Lisbon - Portugal

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

That's a newline symbol.
I have one myself. Open the conkyrc file in a text editor, and turn on "show whitespace", you'll see it. If your favorite editor doesn't have this option, try geany.

Pnevma

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

Yeah, a new line kept getting created automatically once I saved. I fixed the problem by turning off the "Ensure new line at file end" option in Geany.

Thanks.

shadyabhi

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

I know its a dead post but still I want to tell the real reason.
I too faced the same problem. The file was in UTF-8 only but the "new lines" used in the file was of windows.. I solved it by opening the file in kate changing the newline from windows to UNIX type..

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Re: [Solved] Annoying Symbol in Conky

Thanks for an additional solution.

closing to avoid further necrobumping.

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