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Michael C.

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 33

[SOLVED] conky ${desktop_number} object not updating

I have a small problem with conky's ${desktop} and ${desktop_number} objects in openbox. Here's the relevant portion of my .conkyrc:

${color grey}Desktop:${color green} ${desktop}/${desktop_number}

It's supposed to show me "Desktop: <desktop I'm on>/<total desktops>

Initially, the values are accurate: I start with one desktop, and it displays "Desktop: 1/1". However, I have an openbox hotkey set up to add a desktop, and when I do, it still displays "1/1". It stays this way regardless of any desktops that I add or remove. If I kill conky and restart it, it works fine, so it must be related to the starting of X somehow.

I have basically nothing else in .xinitrc, .xsession or autostart.sh, just tint2 and feh.

When I start X, it prints this to the tty:

FATAL: Module fbcon not found.

The Xorg log file has these warnings:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev

I have no xorg.conf, I use hal/dbus.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by Michael C. (2010-02-13 02:51:13)

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: [SOLVED] conky ${desktop_number} object not updating

Try with this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79362

Michael C.

Member

From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] conky ${desktop_number} object not updating

Thank you very much! I just had to modprobe i810fb, and it works perfectly now.

Apologies for semi-redundant topic.