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pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

dwm statusbar + conky, not working properly.

dwm-5.7.2 (compiled thru abs)
conky latest from extra
fresh arch install

Hello,

i have a weird problem that i cant solve as it seems. Conky will not stick properly on the statusbar, all it does is flicker over the default dwm line.
I am using the default conky/xsetroot line from the arch dwm wiki but either its does what i wrote above or it send my system to a halt with an insane amount of xsetroot requests.

conkyrc

out_to_x  no
out_to_console yes
use_spacer none

TEXT
${execi 30 perl /home/blabla/pacman-conky.pl} ${loadavg} ${mem} ${time %e %B %G} ${time %H:%M:%S}

.xinitrc

while true
do
conky | while true; read line; do xsetroot -name "$line"; done &
done &
exec dwm

All help is appreciated.

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Re: dwm statusbar + conky, not working properly.

You need to use conky-cli (it's a different package in the AUR) if you're going to use conky in the dwm statusbar. Check out my configs here for ideas on how to do it with scripting instead of conky. Unfortunately, as near as I can tell, you can't have conky and conky-cli at the same time, so if you want to use use conky for anything on your desktop, you're SOL.

Good luck!
Scott

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pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: dwm statusbar + conky, not working properly.

Hello firecat53,

thanks for the info, il check out conky-cli, thanks for the scripts aswell, might end up ditching conky-cli

pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: dwm statusbar + conky, not working properly.

conky-cli did not help, same result as with conky with out_to_x no, any ideas ?

Last edited by pshr (2009-10-07 20:31:31)

pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: dwm statusbar + conky, not working properly.

Kind of fixed it by downgrading to before dwm started using xsetroot, works fine now.