Conky Network Bug

rhadamanthys · February 26, 2023, 12:12am

after the latest update Network conky no longer show graphs for upload/download and the wording are not displayed in english anymore.
2023-02-25_21-10

napcok · February 26, 2023, 12:17am

Hello,
Try right click on Conky and click context menu position: “Not working? Try to fix”

rhadamanthys · February 26, 2023, 12:26am

hi, thank you for your time.
it fixed the language and the network interface is now correct, but still only one bar instead of two, and no graph.

napcok · February 26, 2023, 12:33am

You are right, something is wrong with the config after conky update, i have to try to fix it.
Thanks for the info, will try it tomorrow

rhadamanthys · February 26, 2023, 12:38am

Glad to help. Thank you for the amazing linux distribution.

napcok · February 26, 2023, 12:49am

Bugreport on Conky Github:

github.com/brndnmtthws/conky

[Bug]: downspeedgraph and upspeedgraph require color and width after update

opened 08:26PM - 25 Feb 23 UTC

closed 12:25AM - 06 Mar 23 UTC

Syphist

bug triage

### What happened? After upgrading from 1.17.0 to 1.18.1 through the Arch Linux… repos I noticed my `downspeedgraph` and `upspeedgraph` objects were throwing errors. Upon digging through documentation and some trial and error I found that I needed to now include the width of the graph and 2 color values. In my config before the 2 lines were as follows: `${downspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,}` `${upspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,}` But now they must be these 2 lines as follows to work like they used to: `${downspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,224 #5498f8 #5498f8}` `${upspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,224 #5498f8 #5498f8}` Oddly enough passing only the size of the graph will produce the correct size, and passing only the interface will produce a working graph of said interface, but when both are passed to it I get the following output when running `conky` in my terminal: ``` conky: desktop window (1c0001d) is subwindow of root window (6c7) conky: window type - desktop conky: drawing to created window (0x5400002) conky: drawing to double buffer conky: can't parse X color 'wlp7s0' (6) conky: can't parse X color '80,' (3) conky: can't parse X color 'wlp7s0' (6) conky: can't parse X color '80,' (3) conky: forked to background, pid is 49288 ``` Also note that when passing only the size `80,` will work, but when passing that as the size with the colors as arguments I still get the errors noted above. An example of such would look like: `${downspeedgraph wlp7s0 80, #5498f8 #5498f8}` Hopefully this is enough information to shed some light on the issue. If you need me to test anything else let me know and I will happily mess with my config. The config I will attach below is my full config that worked in 1.17.0, but does not fully work now. ### Version 1.18.1 ### Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on? Arch Linux ### Conky config ```Lua conky.config = { background = true, double_buffer = true, alignment = 'top_right', border_width = 1, cpu_avg_samples = 2, default_color = 'black', default_outline_color = 'black', default_shade_color = 'black', default_bar_width = 200, draw_borders = false, draw_graph_borders = true, draw_outline = false, draw_shades = false, gap_x = 8, gap_y = 32, minimum_width = 170, minimum_height = 0, net_avg_samples = 2, no_buffers = true, out_to_console = false, out_to_stderr = false, extra_newline = false, own_window = true, own_window_type = 'desktop', own_window_transparent = false, own_window_colour = '#000000', own_window_argb_visual = true, own_window_argb_value = 180, own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager', stippled_borders = 0, update_interval = 2.0, uppercase = false, use_spacer = 'none', show_graph_scale = false, show_graph_range = false, use_xft = true, xftalpha = 0.1, color0 = '#5498f8', color1 = '#ee7c44', color2 = '#db4238', color3 = '#f5683a', color4 = '#ef4447' } conky.text = [[ ${voffset 1}$alignc${font DejaVu Sans:size=14}${color1}≻ ${color3}Status ${color1}≺${font Ubuntu:size=12} ${voffset 12}${color2}OS $alignr ${color0} ${exec lsb_release -d | cut -f 2| tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | cut -d ' ' -f1-2} ${color2}Kernel $alignr ${color0} $kernel ${color2}CPU ${color0}${alignr}$cpu% ${cpubar cpu1 5,224} ${cpubar cpu2 5,224} ${cpubar cpu3 5,224} ${cpubar cpu4 5,224} ${cpubar cpu5 5,224} ${cpubar cpu6 5,224} ${cpubar cpu7 5,224} ${cpubar cpu8 5,224} ${top name 1} $alignr ${top cpu 1}% ${top name 2} $alignr ${top cpu 2}% ${top name 3} $alignr ${top cpu 3}% ${top name 4} $alignr ${top cpu 4}% ${top name 5} $alignr ${top cpu 5}% ${top name 6} $alignr ${top cpu 6}% ${color2}RAM ${color0}${alignr} $mem / $memmax - $memperc% ${membar 5,224} ${color2}SWAP ${color0}${alignr} $swap / $swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 5,224} ${top_mem name 1} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 1} ${top_mem name 2} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 2} ${top_mem name 3} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 3} ${top_mem name 4} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 4} ${top_mem name 5} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 5} ${top_mem name 6} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 6} ${color2}Temperatures ${color0}Intel i7 4770 $alignr ${exec sensors | grep -E "^Package id 0:" | cut -d ' ' -f 5-5 | cut -d '+' -f 2-} ${color0}AMD RX 6600 $alignr ${exec /home/syphist/.programs/gputemp-conky.sh} ${color2}Download ${color0}${alignr}${downspeedf wlp7s0} KiB/s ${downspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,} ${color2}Upload ${color0}${alignr}${upspeedf wlp7s0} KiB/s ${upspeedgraph wlp7s0 80,} ${color2}Local IP${color0}${alignr}${addrs wlp7s0} ${color2}Public IP${color0}${alignr}${execi 3600 wget -q -O /dev/stdout http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d : -f 2- | cut -d \< -f -1} ]] ``` ### Stack trace _No response_ ### Relevant log output _No response_

biemster · February 27, 2023, 12:33pm

Same issue here, just started on Mabox a couple days ago (awesome work btw!). Did the conky also shrink in size? I remember it being the same width as Sysinfo but I might be wrong (and I did not figure out how to roll back to the previous version of a package, still learning!)

napcok · February 27, 2023, 2:28pm

I decided to remove buggy Conky version 1.18.1 from Mabox repo so please downgrade conky by command:

yay -Syyu
yay -S conky-no-nvidia

biemster · February 27, 2023, 3:16pm

Thanks that worked!
Oddly enough the initial update also replaced my conky Network script with the default, while leaving alone my edits to Sysinfo (again, still learning, I’ll open a separate ticket/post if need be)
EDIT: wait maybe “Not working? Try to fix” did that.

napcok · February 27, 2023, 3:32pm

Yes,“Not working? Try to fix” menu item is to find active Inet device - and it replaces part of config.
Everything inside “conky.text” part.

#!/bin/bash

CFGFILE="$HOME/.config/conky/Network_mbcolor.conkyrc"
rm /tmp/xx*
cd /tmp

csplit -s ${CFGFILE} /conky.text/


#IFACE=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk -- '{printf $5}')
IFACE=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{for(i=1; i<NF; i++) {if($i=="dev") dev=i+1} print $dev}')


cat <<EOF >> /tmp/xx00
conky.text = [[
\${color}NETWORK
\${color}Device \${alignr}$IFACE
\${color}IP \${alignr}\${addr $IFACE}
\${color}Download \$color0\${downspeed $IFACE} \${alignr}\${color0}\${upspeed $IFACE}\${color} Upload
\${color2}\${downspeedgraph $IFACE 30,100 -t} \${alignr} \${upspeedgraph $IFACE 30,100 -t}
\${color}Total Down \${color0}\${totaldown $IFACE} \${alignr}\${color0}\${totalup $IFACE}\${color} Total Up
\${color}\${hr}
\${execi 30 netstat -ept | grep ESTAB | awk '{print \$9}' | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr}
]];
EOF

cat /tmp/xx00 > ${CFGFILE}

If you like to look and customize it - copy /usr/bin/conky_getactiveinet.sh to ~/bin

cp /usr/bin/conky_getactiveinet.sh ~/bin/

and edit here.

biemster · February 27, 2023, 3:43pm

Great thanks!
Just want to say as a 20+ year Debian/Ubuntu user, your distro finally managed to pull be to Arch. Well done!

rhadamanthys · March 1, 2023, 12:32am

Thank you. Worked like a charm.