[Bug]: Fonts are red. Default config file, background is black, X11 environment

[e-Gyi-qO]

What happened?

After upgrading conky, the color of the fonts turned red. I am not sure from which version it started. I tried downgrading, and the problem persists. It could be I have not noticed the issue earlier enough, and I should have tried downgrading further in the past. Or that it is not conky's fault. I have not noticed color related issues any where else.

Version

1.20

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Arch Linux

Conky config

-- Conky, a system monitor https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
--
-- This configuration file is Lua code. You can write code in here, and it will
-- execute when Conky loads. You can use it to generate your own advanced
-- configurations.
--
-- Try this (remove the `--`):
--
--   print("Loading Conky config")
--
-- For more on Lua, see:
-- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
--
-- Conky Lua API: https://conky.cc/lua

-- Configuration settings: https://conky.cc/config_settings
conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_left',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    default_color = 'white',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
    gap_x = 60,
    gap_y = 60,
    minimum_height = 5,
    minimum_width = 5,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_wayland = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'normal',
    own_window_hints = 'undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 1.0,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'none',
    use_xft = true,
}

-- Variables: https://conky.cc/variables
conky.text = [[
${color grey}Info:$color ${scroll 32 Conky $conky_version - $sysname $nodename $kernel $machine}
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed}
$hr
${color grey}Name              PID     CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
]]

Stack trace

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[Caellian]

Are you sure you're running 1.20?

We changed how color names are handled in v1.20.2.

Let me know whether you can recreate the issue on v1.21.1 and v1.19.8 , v1.21.1 works ok for me on X11 Plasma.

[e-Gyi-qO]

Tin Švagelj @.***> wrote:

Are you sure you're running 1.20?

We changed how color names are handled in v1.20.2.

Let me know whether you can recreate the issue on v1.21.1 and v1.19.8

-- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1922#issuecomment-2119026064 You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

Message ID: @.***>

I am sure about the versions as far as stock archlinux packages vesrions are as expected. Issue seems to vanish right now. Not in a way I can fully explain. I upgrade frequently, as I am using a rolling distribution. I will keep the report open for a while. If there will be no furthere meaningful replies I wll then close it.

[servimo]

conky-1.20-2 in my Manjaro solved this issue.

[e-Gyi-qO]

servimo: conky-1.20-2 in my Manjaro solved this issue.

Confirming servimo comment and closing this issue.

Additional information: Stock archlinux 1.20.2-1, which is

conky -v | head -1
conky 1.20.2_pre compiled for Linux x86_64

has this issue. When started from a terminal, it also regularly spits conky: can't parse hex color 'lightgrey' (9) messages to the terminal. I guess it does this for each update of the window. lightgrey is mentioned above at Conky config section.

Stock archlinux 1.20.2-2, which is also

conky -v | head -1
conky 1.20.2_pre compiled for Linux x86_64

does not have this issue. The difference between stock archlinux 1.20.2-1 and 1.20.2-2 is fixed color naming. I guess it is the same as Tin Švagelj @.*** comment from above, but have not tried to verify my guess.

[Caellian]

Right, the binary was built without gperf present. A later version made it a requirement by default and added a config option to disable gperf/color parsing.

I'm new to contributing to a project that's used by so many people on different distros and didn't foresee package maintainers wouldn't add an optional dependency so it looked like conky was broken (and the error message didn't help). Apologies.