Strange Conky Behavior

[mhumm2]

I think the screenshot describes it better than I can. It appears that Conky is overwriting its panel, but not quite aligning correctly. I know that's not what's really happening, but it's the same result. I've played with different fonts, but no joy. It almost looks like the information is in bold font style instead of regular. Any suggestions? I attached the script too.

[Snowhog]

I'm not sure I understand what you believe the problem is. The image looks fine to me, unless it shouldn't be indented as much as it is from the left edge.

[mhumm2]

Hi Snowhog. Take a look at the actual RAM usage. You can't make out a number because multiple iterations overwrite the previous numbers. It's like the text is only being written instead of a write text then replace text with the next update. All of the text seems to become bold as more iterations write on top of the previous text. It's frustrating that I can't articulate the problem better than that. The indentation is due to the user (Me) not centering the screenshot utility.

[oshunluvr]

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

[oshunluvr]

I ran it here and it looks perfect. Only differences are I had to remove the apcaccess exec's because I don't have one (Cyber Power here!) and I saw an error (launched conky from the terminal) regarding border_margin:

stuart@office:~$ Conky: /home/stuart/.conkyrc: 38: no such configuration: 'border_margin'

so I commented out that one line. The other thing I noticed was you have "comicsansms" where as here it's "Comic_Sans_MS" but changing that made no difference - looks OK here either way.

[oshunluvr]

BTW: here's the border margin looks like:

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

[life0riley]

Hi mhumm2, Can you check how many instances of conky you are running?

ps -ef | grep conky

[mhumm2]

OMG!

mark@AMD64:~$ ps -ef | grep conky
mark      2027  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2161  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2162  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2163  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2164  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2173  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2174  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2175  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2180  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2181  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2182  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2183  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2184  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2185  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2186  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2191  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2210  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2233  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2260  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2265  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2266  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2379  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark      2399  1695  0 11:58 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/conky
mark     20229 19627  0 12:49 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto conky

How do I run only one?

[life0riley]

This is what I see when I run this.

life0riley@kubuntu-desktop:~$ ps -ef | grep conky
life0riley    16372 16304  0 11:01 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto conky
life0riley    22541     1  0 Mar18 ?        00:21:39 conky
life0riley@kubuntu-desktop:~$

The .conkyrc is in my home directory /home/life0riley

Kill all running instances of conky.

killall conky

Start conky

conky &

You can then enter and type exit to close your terminal session. Log out of your session. Then log back in. Conky should start at some point when your desktop environment is loading. You should see only one session running. That's how it works for me.

In System Settings --> Startup and Shutdown under System Administration --> Session Management I have it selected to restore the previous settings. I haven't changed that default setting. This is Kubuntu 12.04 LTS, but it works to same for all other Kubuntu's I've installed, 12.10. 13.04. 13.10. and 14.04.

[oshunluvr]

Cnky has a bad habit of running multiple times if you put it in autostart and use session restore. Kill it all, make sure it's not in your personal autostart folder - just in the system settings autostart.

[mhumm2]

Okay, here's the summary:

Problem: Multiple conky session were running for some reason.
Cause: Unknown
Solution: Killing all iterations of conky and then running it from the terminal worked.

Misc: I did put Conky in the system settings autostart and not in my personal autostart folder. I don't even know about the latter. The border inner and otter margins are correct, thank you Stuart. And, after several reboots, Conky is running cleanly again.

As usual without you guys, I'd still be a M$ Windoze zombie. Thank you.

[millusions]

hello!

this was driving me crazy too... speciallly the battery left time on my laptop.
played around with .conkyrc fair bit
until i found this post.
something as simple as multiple conkies lol

thanks very much !

my simple conky