[SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

dhave · 2008-11-22 23:42:33

This is strange. When I try to launch conky from a terminal, I get a couple of innocuous screen messages, but conky doesn't appear. Then when I type ctrl-c, the terminal goes back to the prompt, and, strangely, conky's display shows up.

Whassup with this?

Thanks.

Last edited by dhave (2008-11-24 07:05:14)

haxit · 2008-11-22 23:49:05

Are you using a GMail script or anything of that sort?

dhave · 2008-11-23 00:01:01

haxit wrote:

Are you using a GMail script or anything of that sort?

No, my conky setup is pretty basic -- just ram, cpu and disk usage; cpu temp; network info; folding at home stats.

dhave · 2008-11-23 00:09:27

Here's something else strange. Conky starts only after I do ctrl-c in the terminal from which I'm trying to launch it, but it starts dead. In other words, the display never changes, it's just frozen. Not even the time advances, much less all the memory and cpu displays.

Then, to make the display go away, I just run "conky" again. To make it reappear a second time, I do ctrl-c.

Sort of like reverso work or something.

BTW, here's the output from the terminal after I try to run conky:

user@host$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1200003) is subwindow of root window (25b)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer

Any ideas, anyone?

Last edited by dhave (2008-11-23 00:12:57)

my0pic · 2008-11-23 05:20:58

Ok, 3 blind stabs in the dark:
Could it be you have the values of

total_run_times

in your conkyrc set to 1 instead of 0 and/or transposed the value with

update_interval

Otherwise try starting conky with just the one variable to see if perhaps it's having trouble with any of them.
Also, try starting conky without your .conkyrc file and see if it starts with it's own default configuration.

dhave · 2008-11-24 07:04:44

Thanks, myopic.

It turns out my Folding@Home script was suddenly causing conky to choke. I've deleted it for now but will try to fix it later. For now, I've got conky working again.

I'm tagging this thread "solved".

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#1 2008-11-22 23:42:33

[SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

#2 2008-11-22 23:49:05

Re: [SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

#3 2008-11-23 00:01:01

Re: [SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

#4 2008-11-23 00:09:27

Re: [SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

#5 2008-11-23 05:20:58

Re: [SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

#6 2008-11-24 07:04:44

Re: [SOLVED] Conky starts only when I do ctrl-c

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