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rokytnji wrote:

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conky &

does not work in terminal?

musher0 wrote:Hello, lfdk.

The best way to test your edits to the conky configuration file is tp have a terminal
opened besides your editor window.

You don't need to restart X at all. Do your edits, then in console, type:

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killall conky
conky -c ActualNameOfYourConkyrc

(Usually .conkyrc, but any other name is ok if you use the -c parameter.)

Also, depending on the refresh speed you specified in conky ("update_interval" line), if
it's fast enough, conky should refresh by itself, because it re-reads its config file every X
seconds. My line has

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update_interval 3.0

so 3 seconds after the edit is done, it shows in conky. You may want to put an interval
of 1.0 (1 second) while you're editing to speed things up.

So you may not even need to de-activate / re-activate conky after each edit to see it.
Certainly, restarting X is not needed.

Best of luck!

musher0

conky -c conkyrc

 conky -c conkyrc_2

musher0 wrote:Hello, lfdk.

Are you sure that it's

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conky -c conkyrc 

and not

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conky -c .conkyrc 

? (with the period in front of it the config file)

As well, try adding the full path, and "demonize" it, something like:

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conky -d -c /root/.conkyrc_rc2

Hopefully, that will help. BFN.

musher0