Conky not starting after last update

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Hello,

I cannot start conky since last update. I get

╭─[photor@Spock:~]
╰─>$ conky
conky: desktop window (0x419) is root window
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x1200002)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 37141
╭─[photor@Spock:~]
╰─>$ 
conky: FOUND: wayland
conky: FOUND: x11
conky: FOUND: file
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: console
conky: Compositor doesn't support wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1. Can't run conky.

which is what I always get, when starting explicitly from terminal - except from the last line.

I run Gnome and conky worked well before (no change of config or settings). Installed version is:extra/conky 1.22.0-1 [installiert] ; updated according to /var/log/pacman.log:

[2025-01-17T15:52:50+0100] [ALPM] upgraded conky (1.21.5-1 -> 1.22.0-1)

Any idea, what happened?

Ciao,
Photor

2

Maybe this thread can help: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1087. Most of the relevant talking points are at the end.

3

try Switch to X11

Try launching Conky with xwayland

env XWAYLAND=1 conky

also try updating conky again
sudo pacman -Syu conky

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@ajgringo619
Maybe this thread can help: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1087. Most of the relevant talking points are at the end.

I will have a look and read through it. But this is from 2021. As conky did work under Wayland for a long time and just stopped working just after last update … ok, I will see.

@zdislav
try Switch to X11

Try launching Conky with xwayland

env XWAYLAND=1 conky

also try updating conky again
sudo pacman -Syu conky

Hm. As conky was working well under Wayland I do not want to go back to X11 because of only 1 small tool. I really like conky, but there are other tools (Gnome has a lot of extensions) that will do the job. So, will wait if something changes with further updates (conky is still installed :grinning:).

Ciao,
Photor