Conky self inflicted disaster [SOLVED]

[Member Ironfighter]

I installed antix on an old dell laptop and was able to set it up exactly as I wanted to. I like conky as I have another newer laptop running MX.
Conky had been running well but disappeared` after I linked it to a secondary screen. I have trawled through the net trying to find a fix but failed to resolve the issue so I decided I would install synaptic, uninstall conky then re install it. (conky-all)

The current situation is that I can only display conky by running it as root. It is not where I want it to be and it doesn’t look the way I want it to. It looks like I will have to start again from scratch.

If it is of any use I have the MX conky config files in my Mega Cloud folder.

I would greatly appreciate some advice as to how to go about cleaning up the mess I have created and setting up conky anew.

$ inxi  -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: XPS M1530 v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0R387D serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A09 
  date: 07/14/2008 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T9300 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB 
  Speed: 1455 MHz min/max: 800/2501 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1455 2: 1530 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] driver: nvidia v: 340.108 
  Device-2: OmniVision OV2640 Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1: 1440x900~60Hz 
  2: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8600M GT/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1d:09:40:44:65 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network 
  driver: iwl4965 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:1d:e0:87:b7:03 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 00:1F:3A:DF:36:18 bt-v: 1.2 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 305.59 GiB used: 48.64 GiB (15.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: 0000 size: 7.5 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BPVT-00JJ5T0 
  size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 288.04 GiB used: 48.64 GiB (16.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3080 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 147 Uptime: 1d 1h 39m Memory: 2.92 GiB used: 1.09 GiB (37.3%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

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[Moderator BobC]

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I see on my antiX 21 Full machine, its conky-legacy-all that is installed, not conky-all. I’d suggest, from a Terminal run:

# remove the conky package you added and reinstall the original
sudo apt update
sudo apt remove conky-all
sudo apt reinstall conky-legacy-all
# move the conky resource file currently there out of the way, and make a fresh copy of the one in /etc/skel
mv ~/.conkyrc ~/.conkyrc.moved
cp /etc/skel/.conkyrc ~/.conkyrc

Then go to the antiX main menu >> Desktop >> Conky On/Off
It that doesn’t turn it on, go to the antiX main menu >> Desktop >> Conky On/Off again

If you want to change the conky, go to the antiX main menu and run Control Centre, then Edit System Monitor (Conky). When you save the file, the Conky displayed should change.

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[Member Ironfighter]

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Thank you I have my conky back
I copied and pasted your code into a terminal but still no conky
I rebooted my computer – still no conky
ran the conky command in aterminal and got an error message about a “call” (whatever that is) in my Home\User\conky\conky.rc file.
I opened the conky directory and saw the conky.rc.moved file so I copied and pasted its contents into the conky.rc file and saved.
That did the trick – see screenshot.

Thank you very much for your help

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[Anonymous]

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For a two-monitor operation you would need the X11 extension ‘xinerama’. However, this is not available in the conky-legacy-all version. It is included in the syntax version 1.10 of ‘conky-all’.

conky -v

...
 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * Xinerama extension (virtual display)
  * Xshape extension (click through)
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft
  * ARGB visual
  * Own window
...

Precondition is here again to use the version ‘.conkyrc-lua’ in antiX, because the ‘.conkyrc’ does not work.

There is a trick to bypass this monitor configuration in antiX without lua. This would require
1. delay the start of conky to at least 20Sec. (sleep)
2. set the alignment in .conkyrc to ‘top_left’ and enlarge the conky window to about the size of both monitors together. Example: 2 x 1920×1080 = ~3800×1080
3. then set only ‘minimum_size 3800 0’ and test it

Unfortunately I can’t do this due to lack of hardware.

[Member Ironfighter]

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Hmm – dissappeared again. Everything else is running like a swiss watch so I am going to settle for what I have. Thank you both for your input.

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This is not very helpful.

-which conky version (syntax 1.9 or 1.10 ?)
so

conky -v

-please publish the used .conkyrc
-is it icewm ?
-two monitors or one; what resolution are they?

[Member Ironfighter]

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Apologies for delay in responding. Here are the answers to your questions then the Conky detail in code box

Rox – ICEWM
At the moment only one monitor – see screenshot – resolution 1440×900. I can access the second screen which is a Sony TV via its remote control and HDMI cable which I have currently disconnected.
I have “found” conky again by the following process.
I have Stacer installed – I searched for Conky which was running but unseen on my scree so I “killed” it.
Then I ran the Conky command in a terminal. It is now back on my screen even after I shut the computer down for a couple of days then started it up again this morning.
Image of cnky screen output below

$ conky -v
Conky 1.9.0 compiled Sun Jul  2 19:19:46 UTC 2017 for Linux 4.4.73-18.17-default (x86_64)

Compiled in features:

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

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

 Music detection:
  * Audacious
  * MPD
  * MOC
  * XMMS2

 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * Weather (METAR)
  * Weather (XOAP)
  * wireless
  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
  * nvidia
  * eve-online
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * apcupsd
  * iostats
  * ncurses
  * Lua

  Lua bindings:
   * Cairo
   * Imlib2

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