conky display

[roddierod]

Can someone tell me why conky renders a block at the end of the display

http://roddierod.hostcell.net/images/conky.png

I compile it with XFT. I removed all blank lines and spaces from the end of the config file but I still get this.

Thanks.

[MG]

How did you start conky?

[roddierod]

This is in Openbox. I don't have any other Window Managers installed.

Here is the .conkyrc

background no
use_xft yes

xftfont Lucida Grande:size=8

#xftalpha 0.8

update_interval 0.5

total_run_times 0

double_buffer yes

own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

minimum_size 400 5

draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no

alignment top_left

gap_x 35
gap_y 5
no_buffers yes
uppercase no

use_spacer right

TEXT
| ${color yellow}CPU ${color}${cpu}% | ${color yellow}LOAD ${color}${loadavg} | ${color yellow}PROC ${color}${running_processes}/${processes} | ${color yellow}FREQ ${color}${freq_g} GHz | ${color yellow}MEMORY ${color}$memperc% ($mem) | ${color yellow}SWAP ${color}${swap}/${swapmax} | ${color yellow}/USR ${color}${fs_used /usr}/${fs_size /usr} | ${color yellow}/DATA_DRIVE ${color}${fs_used /DATA_DRIVE}/${fs_size /DATA_DRIVE} | ${color yellow}NETWORK ${color}${totaldown nfe0}/${totalup nfe0}

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

i tried your conky, and there was no problem at all, i mean i don't see any block!

[MG]

Have you tried different ways to start conky, like from console, desktop shortcut, filemanager or via ~/.xinitrc?

What happens if you start with:

conky &
disown
exit

[roddierod]

I've tried starting it from a console and from the autostart.sh script that runs when Openbox starts. However I start it I get the box.

This is one of the reasons I don't use conky because I always get these boxes.

I'll try fluxbox and see if that makes a difference.

[DutchDaemon]

What does removing use_spacer right do in your case?

[roddierod]

Well it turns out that because I had geany set to ensure there was a new line at the end of files on save.

This cause conky to display a new line character as a block. I removed the setting and saved the file and the block disappeared.

Thanks for everyones attempts at helping.

[paulfrottawa]

In ~/.conkyrc the freq and freq_g doesn't work. If there is a trick for that please post it.

${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g

[DutchDaemon]

I use things like ${color}${freq} and they work fine, e.g.:

${color #a3a3a3}Frequency: ${color}${freq}