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Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
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[Bug]: Bars not displayed under wayland #1504

Open muellerjoel opened 1 year ago

muellerjoel commented 1 year ago

What happened?

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1497

The bars aren't displayed from the cores under wayland

Version

conky 1.19.1_pre compiled 2023-04-10 for Linux x86_64

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Arch Linux

Conky config

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Stack trace

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bi4k8 commented 1 year ago

(tested by using the config file from #1497.)

I believe this is caused by own_window_argb_value being interpreted differently on Wayland vs. X11. Specifically, on X11, this only affects the window background, while on Wayland, this alpha value is used for all non-text drawing (because text uses the xftalpha setting).

I think we need to decide once and for all how to handle alpha in Conky: is it separate from colors, or included with them? We conflate ends and means in the current configuration scheme: own_window_transparent overrides own_window_argb_value, but should really be equivalent to own_window_argb_value = 0, except that it actually triggers a different implementation that can work in more X11 configurations. Meanwhile, color parsing does support reading alpha values, except for places where the parsed alpha is overridden by xftalpha or own_window_argb_value.

A workaround for now is to change own_window_argb_value to 255, but that does mean it's not really feasible to share configurations between X11 and Wayland, which isn't good.

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