Conky-cli - awesome-client = no go?

Question

So, I've recently switched to Awesome from Xmonad (yes, it's MUCH easier to configure, unless you know haskell of course). Everything has gone fairly well except that I can't get conky-cli to work with the awesome-client statusbar.  I'm running the patched version of conky and I've followed the tutorials on the awesome website, but for whatever reason all that appears in the statusbar are dashes used as placeholders for the textboxes. I've tried this using the non-patched conky-cli, also unsuccessfully.
I'm running awesome-git, which appears to be v2.3.rc1.25.g96fe2ec (Productivity Breaker).  The following are my sample configs (I've disabled the other conky stats until I know this is working):
[thayer@dublin:~] $ cat .conkyrc
background no
no_buffers yes
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1
uppercase no
use_spacer none
total_run_times 0
TEXT
0 widget_tell clock ${time %a %b %d %I:%M%P}
Relevant portion of .awesomerc:
statusbar bottom
position = bottom
width = 0
height = 0
textbox clock { align = "right" text = "-" }
If I run conky on its own, it spits out the expected text:
[thayer@dublin:~] $ conky
0 widget_tell clock Wed Apr 16 08:04pm
And my .xinitrc file:
conky | awesome-client &
urxvt &
exec awesome
Last edited by thayer (2008-04-17 03:13:54)

Answer 1

omega_0815 wrote:
That should get conky to work, if it doesn't work try starting conky without piping to awesome-client in .xinitrc.
I have conky running here with awesome-git for the same reasons you mentioned, but I will take a look at amazing this weekend.
Hope that solves your issue.
Thanks omega, I had actually tried that syntax before, but it didn't work for me.   BUT... since you mentioned that it DOES work for you, I decided to poke around a bit more and I figured out that if I add 'text' as well as the statusbar name it works fine:
0 widget_tell bottom mpd text $mpd_smart
0 widget_tell bottom spacer1 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom cpuload text ${cpu cpu1}% / ${cpu cpu2}% ${loadavg 1} ${loadavg 2 3}
0 widget_tell bottom spacer2 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom cputemp text ${i8k_cpu_temp}c ${freq_g 1}/${freq_g 2}GHz
0 widget_tell bottom spacer3 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom memory text $memperc% ($mem)
0 widget_tell bottom spacer4 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom power text ${if_empty ${exec awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state | grep 'on-line'}}${else}${endif}$battery $battery_time
0 widget_tell bottom spacer5 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom network text ${if_empty ${exec ifconfig wlan0 | grep 'inet addr:'}}${downspeed eth0}K/s ${upspeed eth0}K/s${else}${exec iwconfig wlan0 | grep 'Signal level' | cut -d= -f3 | awk '{print 100+$1 "%"}'} ${exec iwgetid | cut -d\" -f2 | awk '{print $1}'} ${downspeed wlan0}K/s ${upspeed wlan0}K/s${endif}
0 widget_tell bottom spacer6 text ::
0 widget_tell bottom clock text ${time %a %b %d %I:%M%P}