Cannot pipe conky colors to i3bar using JSON, status doesn't get updated

asked Jan 20 '13

naq
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updated Jan 20 '13

I did exactly as it says in the documentation. I've struggled with this for two days many hours in a row. I have no experience with JSON so I don't know what I can do to fix it. I have the ~/.i3/conkyi3bar.sh which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

echo '{ "version": 1 }'
echo '['
echo '[],'
exec conky -c $HOME/.i3/conkyi3rc

And this is the TEXT part from the conky script:

TEXT
[
{
  "full_text": "K: $kernel",
    "color": "\#BFBFBF"
},
{
  "full_text": "A: $machine",
  "color": "\#BFBFBF"
},
{
  "full_text": "U: $uptime",
  "color": "\#BFBFBF"
},
{
  "full_text": "CU0: ${cpu cpu1}%",
  "color":
    ${if_match ${cpu cpu1}>60}"\#FF0000"
    ${else}"\#BFBFBF"
    ${endif}
},
{
  "full_text": "CU1: ${cpu cpu2}%",
  "color":
    ${if_match ${cpu cpu2}>60}"\#FF0000"
    ${else}"\#BFBFBF"
    ${endif}
},
{
  "full_text": "C0:${hwmon 1 temp 2}°C",
  "color":
    ${if_match ${hwmon 1 temp 2}>45}"\#FF0000"
    ${else}"\#BFBFBF"
    ${endif}
},
{
  "full_text": "C1:${hwmon 1 temp 3}°C",
  "color":
    ${if_match ${hwmon 1 temp 3}>45}"\#FF0000"
    ${else}"\#BFBFBF"
    ${endif}
},
{
  "full_text": "M: $memeasyfree / $memperc%",
  "color":
    ${if_match ${memperc}>70}"\#FF0000"
    ${else}"\#BFBFBF"
    ${endif}
}
]

I wrote it like this to be easy to read (for me). At first I thought it may be the syntax, but I tried many ways. It made no difference. Without using the JSON protocol, the conky status gets piped without any problems, but I have to give up on colors. Maybe someone who knows JSON or the i3bar protocol better, can spot an error in my configs. I need a little help.

I'm using ArchLinux 64 bit with i3-git compiled yesterday in the hope that there will be something that can be fixed this way.