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brndnmtthws
[Bug]: conky will not start with error
What happened?
When I try to start conky I only get this message:
conky: desktop window (651) is root window conky: drawing to desktop window conky: X Error: type 0 Display 5565e2654c20 XID 1617 serial 157 error_code 10 request_code 2 minor_code 0 other Display: 5565e2654c20
This happens since two or three weeks.
Version
1.18
Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?
ArchLinux
Conky config
conky.config = {
alignment = 'tl',
gap_y = '0',
gap_x = '0',
border_outer_margin = 0,
background = false,
border_width = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
default_color = white,
default_outline_color = white,
default_shade_color = white,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
extra_newline = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
net_avg_samples = 2,
no_buffers = false,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
extra_newline = false,
own_window = false,
own_window_type = desktop,
-- own_window_hints = undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky,
stippled_borders = 0,
update_interval = 2.5,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = none,
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
double_buffer = true,
}
Stack trace
No response
Relevant log output
No response
Got the same error with conky 1.18.1 (all perfect with conky 1.17.0).
with conky 1.17.0: conky: desktop window (291) is root window conky: drawing to desktop window conky: drawing to double buffer
with conky 1.18.1: conky: desktop window (291) is root window conky: drawing to desktop window conky: X Error: type 0 Display 55757470b910 XID 657 serial 272 error_code 10 request_code 2 minor_code 0 other Display: 55757470b910 zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped) conky
I am running Arch, Xfce on Openbox, proprietary Nvidia 470 driver from AUR. I run conky on the root window (obvious from messages above).
excerpt of gdb trace below, after it installed the debuginfo packages
conky: desktop window (291) is root window conky: drawing to desktop window conky: X Error: type 0 Display 5555557ab910 XID 657 serial 737 error_code 10 request_code 2 minor_code 0 other Display: 5555557ab910
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
__pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=
just realised that there is another similar (or duplicate) issue: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1410
I had the same problem and I fixed by adding own_window_type = 'desktop' in the configuration file .conkyrc, like this:
conky.config = {
...
own_window_type = 'desktop',
...
}
I am not sure why this solved the issue; I just took the default configuration, which worked, and started comparing it to my faulty config. The line that broke conky was own_window_type = 'desktop' missing.
Hope this helps.
I had the same issue (version 1.19.2). Indeed, own_window_type = 'desktop' solved it for me as well.
@gsommavilla: thanks!
I upgraded my system from debian stable to trixie and conky stopped working. I added own_window_type = 'desktop' to .config/conky/conky.conf and it works again. Conky version is 1.19.6.
diff --git a/conky.conf b/conky.conf
index 31e25bf..3d41a07 100644
--- a/conky.conf
+++ b/conky.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
conky.config = {
+ own_window_type = 'desktop',
alignment = 'top_right',
gap_x = 60,
gap_y = 60,
This error is related to colormap, reason is "BadValue".
Does the latest version work?
Does not work for me either, version 1.19.7 on Arch. Downgraded to version 1.17.0 and it works again.
However 1.19.7 seems to behave differently from 1.18.1 as I described in my post above, it does not seem to crash. Not sure what is wrong.
No, Sry...
What version are you running? Is it 1.20.1?
However 1.19.7 seems to behave differently from 1.18.1
How so? Have you tried 1.20.1? I tested this version extensively and I believe most bugs introduced by new functionality are gone.
However 1.19.7 seems to behave differently from 1.18.1
How so? Have you tried 1.20.1? I tested this version extensively and I believe most bugs introduced by new functionality are gone.
1.19.7 is the version currently in the official Arch repo. I built myself using the AUR package conky-git (with the modification by another AUR user) and with that package version 1.20.1 gets built, and it seems to be working for me. Of course conky has a huge array of features and I use only a small subset of those, those that I use seem fine.
So thanks to whoever fixed this.
So thanks to whoever fixed this.
That'd be mostly me, but it's also me who broke everything in the first place, so I guess I'm even. :relaxed: