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Hamza5

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Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 22

Conky doesn't use the ~/.conkyrc file

I know that this is a very stupid problem, but I can't figure out how to make Conky use a custom configuration file. I tried to download the default configuration (BTW, it doesn't have a similar structure to ~/.config/conky/conky.conf, I don't know if that matters) and move it to ~/.conkyrc, stopped and started Conky many times but no changes took effect. I tried to move it to ~/.config/conky/rc (as what Conky's manpage says) but no success. The only solution that works is to edit ~/.config/conky/conky.conf directly, but I want to keep the default configuration clean and add custom themes in a separate file. So where can I put the .conkyrc ?

ewaller

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Re: Conky doesn't use the ~/.conkyrc file

You could just force it with a -c flag.   conky -c ~/.conkyrc

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karlch

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Registered: 2015-06-14

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Re: Conky doesn't use the ~/.conkyrc file

The default file should not have to be in home. Mine is in

/usr/share/doc/conky-1.10.1_pre/conky.conf

Of course you can also just use the c flag as ewaller pointed out.

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Hamza5

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Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: Conky doesn't use the ~/.conkyrc file

You could just force it with a -c flag.   conky -c ~/.conkyrc

I know the -c flag, but I thought that there is another way to make Conky use multiple configuration files in a specific order, I mean like bash, there is /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc ....
For now, I will keep editing the default file

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Conky doesn't use the ~/.conkyrc file

What is the output of:

ls -l ~/.conkyrc

You can get conky to generate a user configuration file from the system-wide version by starting it with:

conky -C > ~/.conkyrc

Then try modifying that file.

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