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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Executing command in conky will delay as much as the update interval.

Hi all,

I'm having trouble with conky. I need it to display the output of a certain command. This command is the output of my todo list and I do *not* need it to be updated regularly. In fact, I'd rather have it run every half an hour or so.

So here is my conkyrc:

conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_left',
    background = false,
    use_xft = true,
    font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10',
    gap_x = 15,
    gap_y = 30,
    minimum_height = 8,
	minimum_width = 5,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    own_window = false,
    update_interval = 1800,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'none'
}


conky.text = [[

${color Green} ${font LCDMono:bold:size=10} Some text here
${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10}${exec sh /home/me/myscript.sh}
]]

The problem with the above configuration is that when conky first runs, it shows "Some text here", but it won't show the output of myscript.sh until half an hour (=1800 seconds) have passed!

I would assume that the behaviour of conky should be that the exec command runs in the beginning and then waits for the update interval. Is there a solution to that other than drastically lowering the update interval?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Last edited by geo909 (2015-12-27 01:12:56)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,681

Re: Executing command in conky will delay as much as the update interval.

This is a known issue with the current release of conky
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/112

geo909

Member

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: Executing command in conky will delay as much as the update interval.

This is a known issue with the current release of conky
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/112

Thanks a lot, that's good to know. For the moment I'll settle with a short update interval while waiting for a fix.

One more question: I'm wondering, is there any way for conky to draw the contents to the screen once and then quit, while the text stays drawn on the screen, never updated?