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ruizlinux

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 74

Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

So when Conky goes tits up.....you killall conky, it disappears....but then it doesnt want to restart

I've tried xkill, killall, pkill, and other variations that google offered up....so i assume the process is dead?

What am I missing?

mrpeachy

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Registered: 2009-11-08

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Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

So when Conky goes tits up.....you killall conky, it disappears....but then it doesnt want to restart

I've tried xkill, killall, pkill, and other variations that google offered up....so i assume the process is dead?

What am I missing?

whenever i killall conky, and it stops responding, i.e. wont restart, i go to my system monitor and kill the process through that... that always kills it for me and lets me restart... im using mint 10 though, i dont know what !# has or what the terminal equivalent would be

but the need to do the above is quite uncommon, and killall conky usually works

what kind of things make your conky crap up so that you need to killall?

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ruizlinux

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 74

Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

Normally I kill it when im downloading overnight. Then in the morning it wont load up.

Last night i just noticed it had stopped updating the RSS feed. Killed it, wouldn't reload.

I haven't rebooted yet. Conky isn't showing in htop. Trying to run it via the terminal results in:

Conky: desktop window (101) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2a00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

but nothing appears

mrpeachy

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From: The Everfree Forest

Registered: 2009-11-08

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Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

Normally I kill it when im downloading overnight. Then in the morning it wont load up.

Last night i just noticed it had stopped updating the RSS feed. Killed it, wouldn't reload.

I haven't rebooted yet. Conky isn't showing in htop. Trying to run it via the terminal results in:

Conky: desktop window (101) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2a00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

but nothing appears

should post your conkyrc
i'll run it and see if i have the same problem
at least rule out the code as being an issue

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vredfreak

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 32

Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

Are you using openbox, xfce, or something else?  It sounds as if the wallpaper might be getting drawn over the top of conky.  You might try changing the config option to draw its own window instead of drawing to the root window (own_window yes), and/or changing the type of window to desktop instead of override (own_window_type desktop) and see if any of those options solve your problem.

Edit:  Misread your post, you already have own_window yes.  But changing the window type may or may not help.

Last edited by vredfreak (2011-05-18 19:39:48)

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ruizlinux

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 74

Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

thanks vredfreak, the open_window_type was set to desktop and all is now normal

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Last edited by ruizlinux (2011-05-18 21:09:44)

vredfreak

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 32

Re: Can't restart Conky without rebooting -- tried everything

thanks vredfreak, the open_window_type was set to desktop and all is now normal

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Glad you got it working.

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