[Bug]: information is not always displayed

[allorder]

What happened?

My entry for DE only shows up if I run conky from the terminal, if I use Xfce application autostart the field is empty, any idea? I tried with sleep option, nothing work except running conky in terminal.. You will need inxi package to test.

Version

1.18.3-1

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Debian

Conky config

${color1}${goto 35}DE: ${color} ${execi 86400 inxi -S | grep -oP 'Desktop: \K.*'} ${execi 86400 inxi -S | grep -oP 'v: \K\d+(\.\d+)+'}

Stack trace

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[babiulep]

Hi,

Just some questions/ideas:

1. Do you see the DE part, because that has nothing to do with the executable 'inxi'? Perhaps something 'odd' with the colors?
2. You could write the complete output to a text-file (at start of computer/log-in) and read that file with conky i.e.:
   ${texecpi 86400 cat /tmp/my_inxi.txt} (the info will not change until you upgrade your DE or Debian :-)
3. Perhaps try the complete path to 'inxi' (i.e. /usr/bin/inxi, check via 'which inxi')
4. Perhaps something goes wrong with the quotes: try to run conky from the CLI and check for clues/errors...

Good luck! Hope you can sort it out!

[allorder]

Do you see the DE part, because that has nothing to do with the executable 'inxi'? Perhaps something 'odd' with the colors?

Yes

Perhaps try the complete path to 'inxi' (i.e. /usr/bin/inxi, check via 'which inxi')

I tried, it doesn't work

Perhaps something goes wrong with the quotes: try to run conky from the CLI and check for clues/errors...

No error, if i run conky from the CLI I get the output of inxi

[babiulep]

Do you have any other execi entries in your conky? And do they show up?
Perhaps it's a Xfce autostart thingy... Check that file and perhaps check Xfce forums?

P.S.: I start conky via a keyboard shortcut

[allorder]

Do you have any other execi entries in your conky? And do they show up? Perhaps it's a Xfce autostart thingy... Check that file and perhaps check Xfce forums?

P.S.: I start conky via a keyboard shortcut

Yes, the others work fine

[Caellian]

Try making an autostart script (separate from conky) with:

inxi -S > $HOME/testing.txt

and paste the results from testing file. Maybe specify $HOME manually.

Maybe the output is different and this will help us tell whether it's an issue with conky or how inxi works in autostart environment.