[solved] Conky 1.81 and execpi regression (messed up output)?

Question

Hi all,
I have a script which dynamically outputs the following lines
${font dejavusansmono:size=8}$color1${fs_free_perc /}% free on /$alignr${diskio disk/by-uuid/9f90f2fa-49ce-4fb7-886b-bcebbc2fc231}/s
$color3${fs_bar 14 /}
$color1${voffset -20}$alignr${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} $font
${font dejavusansmono:size=8}$color1${fs_free_perc /home}% free on /home$alignr${diskio sda6}/s
$color3${fs_bar 14 /home}
$color1${voffset -20}$alignr${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} $font
${font dejavusansmono:size=8}$color1${fs_free_perc /home/data}% free on /home/data$alignr${diskio sda5}/s
$color3${fs_bar 14 /home/data}
$color1${voffset -20}$alignr${fs_used /home/data}/${fs_size /home/data} $font
When I copy the output and paste it into my conky, it shows as expected, but when I run the script via ${execpi 6 /path/to/my/script} it comes out messed up.
Does anyone else see this? I was going to submit it to conky's bug tracker but a quick look at their sourceforge site doesn't reveal any such.
Last edited by ngoonee (2011-10-27 00:39:47)

Answer 1

That work around doesn't work for me, I use this script:
$ cat diskSpace
#!/bin/bash
#: Description : Shows the free space of attached devices for Conky
## List of places to be displayed if mounted
placesDisplayed=/home/tom/.ConkyScripts/placesDisplayed
## Go through each place
while read place
do
## If they exist in mtab then print them and their size
if [[ $( mount | grep -c $place ) -gt 0 ]]
then
printf "%s \${alignr}\${fs_used %s} / \${fs_size %s}\n" $place $place $place
fi
done < $placesDisplayed
and it outputs:
/ ${alignr}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /}
/home ${alignr}${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home}
/mnt/Windows ${alignr}${fs_used /mnt/Windows} / ${fs_size /mnt/Windows}
/media/iphone ${alignr}${fs_used /media/iphone} / ${fs_size /media/iphone}
Which currently looks like this.
It does the same thing with your workaround...
The conky bug tracker is useless, no one has done anything about it in months. Any better work arounds or, even better, how would I go about patching this myself?
Edit: Ok so I downloaded the source and the change log says that the fix was added in 2009:
2009-07-18
* Added compilation switch --enable-xoap to be able to use
www.weather.com as a source of weather data (this avoids adding
libxml2 as a required dependency for users that wish to use noaa
and not weather.com)
* Added support for X alignment across multi-lined objects (i.e., using
$alignr with $exec)
* Disabled OpenMP code until GCC's implementation stabilizes
* www.weather.com can now be used as well as a source of weather data
How old is the one in the arch repos?
Unless this is only fixing alignr before and execp instead of in an execp. (Sorry for the wall of text, I've got to put this somewhere otherwise in another month it'll bug me again until it's fixed).
Last edited by BaconPie (2010-12-22 12:17:39)