conky doesn't play nice with wayland

[km4ack]

Conky is unusable at this time if using Wayland.

[SpudGunMan]

for tracking brndnmtthws/conky#56

[KB3LZV]

Conky is showing up in the middle of the screen and all black displaying no information that I can see

[mcangeli]

To use Conky on wayland, add these two lines on your Conky script.

conky.config = {
out_to_x = false,
out_to_wayland = true,

Change own_window_type to ‘override’ ( own_window_type = ‘override’,)

If you add these lines, Conky will works on Wayland without any issue. But Conky will not load on Xorg .

(this will remove it from the taskbar and allow the transparency to work and fix some other things with COnky in wayland)

[Kb1hux]

All the text is black. How do I correct this?

[NullVibes]

A work-around for Wayland is to open/save the .conkyrc file (no changes necessary.) Conky will close itself, then re-open in the correct position. Not a solution per se, but a band-aid that's working well for me. I'll try that code-tweak, too, @mcangeli.

*Update: can confirm that adding those lines to .conkyrc moves the Conky window to the correct position, with transparent background, and removed from the taskbar. Recommend adding a test for Wayland to the build script so these lines can be added as necessary. Note: changing own_window_type wasn't necessary.

[NullVibes]

Added pull request #96 to test for Wayland, to add the appropriate Conky config lines.

[km4ack]

Thanks. I had a hunch that was the issue hence asking about the version of Ruby. Ran into that once before.

[kb8zgl]

Brand new load here, I made the changes adding the two lines to .conkyrc but it will not load after the changes. I verified commas, spelling, everything... Anyone else still having issues?

[NullVibes]

Which specific OS are you running?

[kb8zgl]

Raspberry Pi OS with desktop * Release date: July 4th 2024 * System: 32-bit * Kernel version: 6.6 * Debian version: 12 (bookworm) From: NullVibes ***@***.***> Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 9:38 AM To: km4ack/73Linux ***@***.***> Cc: kb8zgl ***@***.***>, Comment ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [km4ack/73Linux] conky doesn't play nice with wayland (Issue #53) Which specific OS are you running? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#53 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AITWIQSCNKI2BFT3V3QWSLLZYK4EPAVCNFSM6AAAAAA77ROHDOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGNZUGEYTKNJWGU>. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[NullVibes]

Spinning up a fresh build now. Will update when complete.

[kb8zgl]

Thank-you. This was literally imaged and loaded yesterday 9/25/24. I tried the work-around listed here and Conky just doesn’t start…. I’m trying to find if it is throwing an error. Before the changes to the .conkyrc file here it started but all black on the right hand side. From: NullVibes ***@***.***> Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM To: km4ack/73Linux ***@***.***> Cc: kb8zgl ***@***.***>, Comment ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [km4ack/73Linux] conky doesn't play nice with wayland (Issue #53) Spinning up a fresh build now. Will update when complete. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#53 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AITWIQVV5XXKDBNOPXENG7LZYMQWFAVCNFSM6AAAAAA77ROHDOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGNZVGI2TSNBSG4>. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[NullVibes]

UPDATES:

1 - Several errors are being observed during 73Linux build process under 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) w/Desktop; dated 04JUL2024. I'll have to re-run everything and kick output to a text file for review. This might add significant time to reviewing this problem...

2 - Conky behaves as expected after adding the above lines to the .conkyrc config file, albeit doesn't look great with the transparent window over the dark default background in Bookworm. Playing with the options draw_shades = true and a different default_shade_color helps.

Not sure if this applies, but the out_to_x and out_to_wayland lines are additions only. The rest of the config file should remain intact.