i3bar conky no update

asked 2014-10-15 13:38:24 +0000

jr88er
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I configured i3bar to work as per: http://i3wm.org/docs/user-contributed... All is good but the information on the bar does not update the information. Even though conky has been set up to update every 2 seconds all the output is static it does not update automatically. I have to reload i3 to update the info with Mod+Shift+r for the info to update. Is there a way of updating conky info automatically?

Thanks

answered 2014-10-15 15:03:38 +0000

cee

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Does your conky script set the time interval for i3statusbar?

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2.0

A link to your config would definitely help.

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Everything is as the link above on my previous post shows. There is an update_interval 2.0 on the .conkyrc

jr88er ( 2014-10-15 15:45:57 +0000 )edit

I tried it out on my PC and it works perfectly with files provided in the docs. Does it work with i3status bar without conky?

cee ( 2014-10-15 16:17:49 +0000 )edit

it does work fine with i3statusbar. Please try and add this line too to conkyrc { "full_text" : "${time %H:%M:%S}" , "color" : "\#ffffff" }, should add the time. Does it update every 2s? Thanks

jr88er ( 2014-10-15 17:51:22 +0000 )edit

Yes, this line works as expected here.

cee ( 2014-10-15 18:13:35 +0000 )edit

I had to add a backslash before the hash symbol, though. like "\\#ffffff"

cee ( 2014-10-15 18:15:06 +0000 )edit

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