Conky is cut off with scrotwm

Question

Problem is rather self explanatory, conky displays all of the code in tty1 but is cut off before finishing in scrotwm. I have played around with minimum_size and maximum_width a lot without success. However, that did fix the same problem on my netbook which is running openbox.
out_to_x no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
minimum_size 1050
maximum_width 1050
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| ${font OpenLogos:size=10}ARCH X86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor +3200$font${voffset -4}Asus-A8N-E$ | Uptime: ${uptime} | CPU: ${cpu}% | RAM: $memperc% | SWAP: $swapperc% | Hard Drive: ${fs_free_perc /}% Free (${fs_type}) | Updates ${exec /home/administrator/list_upgradable.pl} | Wired Network ${downspeed eth0} k/s down ${upspeed eth0} k/s Up | Wireless Network ${downspeed wlan0} k/s Down ${upspeed wlan0} k/s Up | ${execi 300 /home/administrator/weather.sh "NAM|US|TN|NASHVILLE"}
Here is pic of the problem, I apologize if the image creates a bandwidth problem. I think its small enough.

Answer 1

Sector11 wrote:This may oe may not work but try putting all commands in {} ie:  ${font} in some cases not having them in {} causes problems.
I'll be watching.  - not a scrotwm user - it may be that - don't know.
Actually since I am running conky via scrotwm's bar there is no since in using fonts since their not working. Nevertheless I replaced all of the $command with ${command} and the problem didn't resolve. Thanks for tip though.
keenerd wrote:
My guess is that the output string is too long.  There is a hard limit in scrotwm.c:
#define SWM_BAR_MAX (256)
You could bump that to a thousand or so, if you can spare a KB of ram :-)
Personally, I start running out of space at 150 characters, but maybe you have a giant screen.
Or if rebuilding ScrotWM is too much trouble, shorten the output.
Rebuilding Scrotwm isn't too much trouble but I haven't had the time to try it yet. I'll try it and report back, by the way my screen is a 1920x1080 Acer lol.
teh wrote:why not piping conky output through dzen2?
I'll try dzen2 but I would rather use scrotwm bar if possible.
Sector11 wrote:
Or --- use two or three conkys side by side.... here's 11 conkys running together --- it can be done, and look seamless too!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16070765/thmb_0001.png
That second column is two conkys split between
+- Locks:
| ${goto 22}+- ${exec xset q | grep Num |awk '{print "Num: "$8}'}
| ${goto 22}+- ${exec xset q | grep Caps |awk '{print "Cap: "$4}'}
|
and
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+- ${execp ~/Conky/GNU/gnu_astro.sh}
|
+---- Anniversaries ------>${goto 285}| Days
Except today the line "Gemini from 21 May - 20 Jun" is gone.
This is the most promising, I have tried to execute two instances of conky in a variety of ways since I have a similar setup on my netbook (Openbox). However scrotwm's bar seems to only display one conky at a time. I normally create a script for running two conkys:
!#/bin/bash
conky --config=$HOME/.conkyrc &
conky --config=$HOME/.conkyrc2 &
fi
But thats not working here, I am wondering how conky would run in its on window made to look like it was integrated with scrotwm. Nice desktop by the way.