Conky either doesn't run or crashes
I have installed conky manager and tweaked the conky_orange to my requirements but no matter what I try it continually either fails to start or crashes regularly. It will allways crash whenever any application goes into full screen view also.
I have put my rc, the various lua scripts and py scripts and my startup file in a .zip in dropbox here. Can anyone shed any light on what is going on as I have completely run out of ideas how to sort this out!! |
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###################### keeps it on the screen, so you can edit conkyrc_orange to suit in your favorite text editor while conky is running. With conkyrc_orange open in your editor, slowly start adding one line of code at a time, hit save, wait for conky to refresh and see the result. Your mistakes or script errors will become apparent in "real-time" on the screen after you hit save in the editor. If you make a mistake, or you don't like the result, you can always "undo" (control+z in most graphical text editors these days) and hit save again, wait for conky to refresh on the screen. Evaluate the result. I'm old-school and I coded conkyrc for months, by hand, so I consider conky_manager to be "cheating" and robbing you of a valuable experience that you could be gaining, ie. how to code and debug your code. There is great satisfaction when you learn to do so and it comes in handy in other areas of Linux-Life </sermon> Tips:
If you have any questions about coding your own conkyrc or this method I have described, I'd be happy to answer them. But I will not respond to any questions about "conky manager" other than "edit it yourself in an editor", or a pointer or 2 to how to edit it in the editor. Nor can I help with LUAs and .py scripts in conkyrcs, other than using an editor and the editing of your conkyrc. Sorry about that. Good luck. Subscribed with interest. I ought to blog this. ;) |
Thanks Habitual.
I did initially use conky manager to install conky and the various themes this time but have since modified the rc and lua's in gedit as the standard theme was not entirely to my liking. I have tweaked the x positioning as per your suggestion and am now going to let it run for a bit to see what happens. I'd rather keep the window type as panel as I have a wide screen and prefer not to let 'normal' windows maximise over it. I'm confident the window type is not the issue as the problem was occuring before I discovered the panel option anyway. If you are really up for a challenge I have posted a previous thread about something...... (oh hang on, it just crashed again while I was typing so x pos is not the culprit I guess!) ........I am trying to achieve with this conky. Thread can be found here if you're game!! Do you know if there is a way I can run conky from terminal so it will tell me what is causing it to crash? At the moment I am calling the startup script each time it crashes and that just gives me:- Code:
gregg@Singularity:~$ /home/gregg/conky-manager/conky-startup.sh |
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conky -c /path/to/conkyrc_orange messing up the placement of my desktop icons and window placement of my open programs also on my 23" monitor. Try poking around http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/in...itle=Main_Page |
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gregg@Singularity:~$ conky -c /home/gregg/conky-manager/themes/conky\ orange/config/conkyrc_orange I hope I haven't upset you so far as to evade any further assistance? |
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Did you check all of /home/gregg/.scripts/? Code:
grep -i *clock* /home/gregg/.scripts/* -Rln Any other conkies running when you ran that in terminal? Code:
conky -v John |
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gregg@Singularity:~$ conky -v |
I don't have LUA nor Imlib2 support in my version of Conky 1.9.0.
Sorry, I wish I could help more. |
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Post #4, 2nd link.
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Still no idea what the problem was here but it seems to have resolved itself since I upgraded to 13.10 Saucy?!?!?!
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