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LemonBoy / bar

A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb
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How to pipe attributes from conky-cli? #115

Closed joetemp closed 9 years ago

joetemp commented 9 years ago

I'm trying to pipe just a few items from conky-cli and I'm running into trouble. Can you give me any pointers? Thanks!

Stebalien commented 9 years ago

What have you tried?

joetemp commented 9 years ago

Check this out:

http://pastebin.com/MaYeTN5e

I'm trying to add conky to a named pipe called $PANEL_FIFO. Then, I'm piping that to lemonbar... but it's not working. I know it's possible and I know I'm probably making a stupid mistake. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

otommod commented 9 years ago

@joetemp When using regular conky and trying this example conkyrc

out_to_console yes
update_interval 1

TEXT
${time %D %H:%M:%S}

like this conky | bar, the bar only updates when I'm looking at the conky window. When I add out_to_x no at the top of the conkyrc though, it works as expected.