conky display

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

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

Here is the .conkyrc
Code:
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}
 
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
 
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.
 
[SOLVED] conky display

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.
 
In ~/.conkyrc the freq and freq_g doesn't work. If there is a trick for that please post it.
Code:
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq    
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
 
I use things like ${color}${freq} and they work fine, e.g.:

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