https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Fri, 24 May 2013 19:07:31 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/I am using i3 4.5.1, i3bar 4.5.1, and Conky 1.9.0. I am using the wrapper script method on the official site for displaying output from Conky in i3bar. After a few minutes of use, i3bar will no longer display info from Conky. The bar becomes blank except for the desktop switcher and tray. Restarting i3 has the same result. Here are my configuration files: **~/.i3/config** ... bar { status_command ~/sh/conky-i3.sh } ... **~/sh/conky-i3.sh** #!/bin/bash echo '{"version":1}' echo '[' echo '[],' exec conky -c ~/.conkyrc **~/.conkyrc** out_to_x no out_to_console yes background no max_text_width 0 update_interval 1 total_run_times 0 double_buffer yes TEXT [{"full_text" : "${mpd_artist} - ${mpd_album} - ${mpd_title}", "color" : "\#89cff0"}, {"full_text" : "${mpd_elapsed}/${mpd_length}", "color" : "\#ff8888"}, {"full_text" : "${mpd_vol}%", "color" : "\#eeeeee"}, {"full_text" : "IP: ${addr eth0}", "color" : "\#99ff99"}, {"full_text" : "RAM: ${mem}", "color" : "\#aaaaff"}, {"full_text" : "Load: ${loadavg 1}", "color" : "\#fff79a"}, {"full_text" : "${tztime US/Eastern %a %b %d, %Y %X}", "color" : "\#eeeeee"}], **Sample output from ~/sh/conky-i3.sh** {"version":1} [ [], [{"full_text" : "(null) - (null) - (null)", "color" : "#89cff0"}, {"full_text" : "0:00/0:00", "color" : "#ff8888"}, {"full_text" : "0%", "color" : "#eeeeee"}, {"full_text" : "IP: 192.168.0.100", "color" : "#99ff99"}, {"full_text" : "RAM: 521MiB", "color" : "#aaaaff"}, {"full_text" : "Load: 0.70", "color" : "#fff79a"}, {"full_text" : "Sun May 12, 2013 03:20:16 PM", "color" : "#eeeeee"}], [{"full_text" : "(null) - (null) - (null)", "color" : "#89cff0"}, {"full_text" : "0:00/0:00", "color" : "#ff8888"}, {"full_text" : "0%", "color" : "#eeeeee"}, {"full_text" : "IP: 192.168.0.100", "color" : "#99ff99"}, {"full_text" : "RAM: 521MiB", "color" : "#aaaaff"}, {"full_text" : "Load: 0.70", "color" : "#fff79a"}, {"full_text" : "Sun May 12, 2013 03:20:17 PM", "color" : "#eeeeee"}], **Edit:** I've found that just restarting i3 does not fix this problem, but exiting i3, stopping x, and starting a new x session fixes it. Sun, 12 May 2013 19:24:49 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?comment=1811#comment-1811hrrmm... maybe weed out if this problem is a conky one or not. Maybe store the output of ~/sh/conky-i3.sh in different files (something like `while true; do conky-i3.sh \>"/tmp/$(date +'%T')"; sleep 3; done`) when starting i3. See if there is any invalid json there... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:51:23 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?comment=1811#comment-1811https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?comment=1812#comment-1812Crap. \&gt should read: Bigger than >....Tue, 14 May 2013 22:52:29 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?comment=1812#comment-1812https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?answer=1888#post-id-1888I encountered this before, I found passing the `-i 1` option to conky solved it for me at least. What that does is runs conky once, then quits. That led to the unfortunate side effect that conky did not calculate cpu usage accurately (my suspicion is that conky uses it's own averaging). So I used a custom command to list top processes instead: `ps -eo '%C%% %c' | sort -k1 -n -r | head -2 | tr '\n' ' '` In the end I realized I did not need to use conky to get any of the info I wanted to display, they all live in a bash script now. Either way I do hope this helps you.Fri, 24 May 2013 19:07:31 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?answer=1888#post-id-1888https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?answer=1831#post-id-1831I don't have a solution, but I do have a better workaround. I think this has something to do with multiple conky processes running. Run 'killall conky' to get rid of all of them, then reload your i3 config ($mod+shift+r by default), which should call the wrapper script again, and conky will output correctly.Fri, 17 May 2013 01:36:01 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1798/conky-output-disappears-from-i3bar-after-extended-use/?answer=1831#post-id-1831