hi
customised and saved (date-and-clock) conky;
created new theme including customised conky;
on re-login, new theme is loaded but (only) conky doesn’t show;
manually restore (already loaded) theme shows conky.
is there a way to show conky as expected without having to manually restore the theme?
thanks
Hello @F2CPP, and welcome to the forum 
Our current Theme Manager is quite an old program, borrowed from BunsenLabs distro a long time ago. It is quite a cool tool, but it has its limitations - at this stage it is no longer being developed.
It will soon be replaced by a new tool fully cooperating with and using the capabilities of Mabox Colorizer.
bar flogging a dead horse, is it maybe possible to call the theme manager’s ‘restore’ function from the autostart script, like /usr/bin/theme.sh "restore"? (theme.sh exists, but “restore” i made up)
thanks for your reply though anyway
I don’t understand what exactly you want to achieve. Desktop after restart should look the same as you configured it.
theme.sh is for terminal theming.
GitHub - lemnos/theme.sh: A script which lets you set your $terminal theme.
sorry, i meant: instead of doing it every login manually (in order to show the conkey), is it possible to have autostart restore the current theme?
Sorry, I still don’t understand. All Conkies should start in the same colors, positions like they look when you log out…
How you start Conkys, we have Conky Manager for that (Left panel → Conky Manager)
Did they start or not?
Did they look the same?
Are they in the same positions?
If not, there is a bug somewhere.
Something may be wrong, as Mabox currently has a mix of old tools and new tools for Conky handling.
nope, new theme is loaded but (only) conky does not show;
manually restore (already loaded) theme then shows conky.
assuming it is a bug, is there anything left for me to do? if not, i leave it here (and reload manually). thanks
Is the theme you use provided by Mabox (which one?) or is it custom-made?
I really like to reproduce this, and see what’s wrong.
- customised desktop i.e. wallpaper, panels;
- customised date-time conky and saved it as new (custom) conky;
- saved all (in blob config manager) as new (custom) theme.
after every reboot theme shows as expected except conky (which shows when i restore current, custom theme in blob config manager).
(‘conky session’ in mabox xdg autostart editor is ticked)
It happens to me often, if I select a theme, several times the conkys do not load, specialy my own themes. I Select all to be saved but when the theme is charged the conkys not run.
yes, same here actually, standard theme without customisation still needs restore to show conkys
For me the same when enabled in startup manager conky does not start.
I did’t payd attention. Using W-c after boot.
This works for conky to start at boot when put line in autostart openbox..
(sleep 1s; mb-conky-session --autostart) &
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@muzqs Interesting and I think this may be the cause of the problem.
@danielhb @F2CPP can you try disabling Conky session from GUI Autostart. and adding this line at the end of ~/.config/openbox/autostart
(sleep 1s; mb-conky-session --autostart) &
(it is possible that Conky session started from GUI thing, is trying to start to early and fail on some machines)
W - c (W = super key) is a key bind to toggle Conky session - might also be useful.
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sorry, no change for me ie conky (and now tint2) need restore
talking lines in autostart however, is there one for a theme-restore?
Well, I am not able to reproduce this bug on my machines, so I am not able to find the cause of the problem and fix it.
I will not spend too much time on this, as the theme manager will be replaced by a new mechanism soon (hopefully).
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