Conky and old laptop

[Member woodlark]

I have been running Antix on a 64 bit desktop for a few weeks. Today, I decided to install 17.4 on an old 32 bit laptop (Dell Latitude 2110). Most everything went well with one exception. Conky will not display. Manually trying to start conky gives the following:

Conky: forked to background, pid is 9253
george@scorpio:~
$
Conky: desktop window (e000a3) is subwindow of root window (7f)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

but no conky window appears (mostly); one time it did appear randomly, but ignored any changes to the .conkyrc file (the default one). When I rebooted, I could not get the conky window back again.

I have tried with and without a .conkyrc file, but it seems to make no difference. Is this likely a problem with the video drivers on this old laptop?

[Member ex_Koo]

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Type in your terminal ps -p 9253 -o comm= you should get a readout of the process or programs relating to pid is 9253 this will be a start anyway..

┏>>>{Sat Jun 01 11:48 AM}0:481 4 
┗>>>koo@debian ~ 20 files = 1.1M ~ >$pidof waterfox
4294 4241

┏>>>{Sat Jun 01 11:49 AM}0:482 5 
┗>>>koo@debian ~ 20 files = 1.1M ~ >$ps -p 4294 -o comm=
Web Content

┏>>>{Sat Jun 01 11:50 AM}0:483 6 
┗>>>koo@debian ~ 20 files = 1.1M ~ >$ps -p 4241 -o comm=
waterfox

[Member woodlark]

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My bad! I completely ignored the fact that an external monitor (with very different resolution) was plugged into the laptop. Apparently this messed up conky, although everything else seemed to be working. Unplugging the external monitor and rebooting solved the problem.

BTW: How do I edit the title of the thread to add [SOLVED]?

[Moderator BobC]

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Scroll up to the first post, click edit, and fix the title

[Moderator caprea]

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There is a very tight time limit to edit postings. Maybe 24 hours.
So it is unfortunately only possible to mark posts as solved within this time limit.

Otherwise a mod has to mark it solved.

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