Quick tip for Conky with Wayland

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I just started using Wayland as my “Daily Driver” (nVidia driver kept me away from trying it for quite a while) & I noticed that my Conky flickered on a regular basis…So I looked at the update_interval—it was set to (1) & playing with it–stopped flickering at (.75) —that will eat up a few more CPU cycles running that fast, but I would rather have a flicker-free conky…

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Did you try double_buffer = true, or is that an Xorg-specific setting?

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double_buffer = true is not making a difference…The only thing that stopped it was the change to update_interval. Have not seen one flicker after the change.

I would “guess” that double_buffer is just xorg. I’ve been making conkys for close to 15 years now & had not seen flicker like that before trying Wayland.

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Would you be good enough to share precisely what you have done to get conky to work on multiple workspaces? When I install xwayland I can get conky to appear on a single workspace but not one all opened workspaces, as they open.

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I only have it on 1 workspace, so the only way I can think of running it on multiple spaces would be to open an instance on each after opening…I guess a script could be written to achieve that—but I’m unsure how to write it.

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Thanks… I thought you were probably running that way.

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I just found the following… it may do something reasonably useful.I have not worked with it yet very much beyond determining that it runs on multiple workspaces at the same time with the same content.

https://git.sr.ht/~proycon/wayout

Here’s the command… btw pango markup is supported so some ‘fancy text’ ought to be achievable.

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Here is a solution that works with the current release of conky: