i3bar conky no update

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 Oct 15 '14

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 (Oct 15 '14)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 (Oct 15 '14)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 (Oct 15 '14)edit

Yes, this line works as expected here.

cee (Oct 15 '14)edit

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

cee (Oct 15 '14)edit

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