images in conky

mreff555 · 09-29-2013, 05:37 PM

I'm having trouble displaying images in conky. I'm pretty sure I've compiled in everything I need. possibly even too much. I have verified that the path is correct but the error message insists that it is NULL.

Here is the line causing the problem

Code:

${image /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/devices/battery.png}  \

The error message

Code:

***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
	This program is calling the Imlib call:

	imlib_image_clear();

	With the parameter:

	image

	being NULL. Please fix your program.
***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
	This program is calling the Imlib call:

	imlib_image_set_has_alpha();

	With the parameter:

	image

	being NULL. Please fix your program.
***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
	This program is calling the Imlib call:

	imlib_blend_image_onto_image();

	With the parameter:

	image

	being NULL. Please fix your program.
***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
	This program is calling the Imlib call:

	imlib_render_image_part_on_drawable_at_size();

	With the parameter:

	image

	being NULL. Please fix your program.
***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
	This program is calling the Imlib call:

	imlib_free_image();

	With the parameter:

	image

	being NULL. Please fix your program.

Code:

Compiled in features:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib64/conky

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft
  * ARGB visual

 Music detection:
  * Audacious

 General:
  * portmon
  * wireless
  * nvidia
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * ncurses
  * Lua

  Lua bindings:
   * Cairo
   * Imlib2

Keith Hedger · 09-30-2013, 01:34 PM

You may need to add a position like so:

Code:

${image /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/devices/battery.png -p 0,0}

Why the continuation (\)? post your whole conky not just one line as it helps to know context.

mreff555 · 09-30-2013, 07:09 PM

The continuation is because my entire conky script will be on one line. To keep things readable i'm making each command on its own line.

here is my code so far. As you can see there is no images. The line I displayed in the previous post was just a line I was trying out to see if it would work.

Code:

 out_to_console yes
 out_to_x no
 update_interval 1.0
 total_run_times 0
 use_spacer none
 
 TEXT
^fg(\#ff0000)network: [^fg()$gw_iface / ${addr wlp4s0}^fg(\#ff0000)]    \
^fg(\#ff0000)batt:^fg()$battery    \
^fg(\#ff0000)Temp: ^fg()${acpitemp} C    \
^fg(\#ff0000)mem: [^fg()$mem / $memmax^fg(\#ff0000)]    \
^fg()${time %a %b %d %I:%M%P}

Keith Hedger · 10-01-2013, 04:39 AM

Well now you've posted your whole conkyrc I can see what you are trying to do, you can't usually display images on the console you need to use some special techniques/applications, the conky command "image" can only be used in an X display ( as far as I know ) so you are on to a loser straight away!

Why are you putting the commands on a single line? the usual way of doing this is to create a text file called ~/.conkyrc and put the commands in that then just use the command "conky" you can if you like supply a path to a different config file with the -c option.

mreff555 · 10-01-2013, 05:12 PM

I am porting conky to dzen2. A fairly simple status bar. I'm using this in i3 which is a tiling window manager. It doesn't make sense to have anything other than a statusbar display of conky in a twm since the entire screen is always used.