Conky no longer plays nicely with root-tail or fvwm

[frankspace]

After the 1.10 update, if "own_window = false", Conky prevents root-tail from displaying anything (except briefly in between Conky updates, it appears). I have experimented with every setting I can think of to no avail.

Conversely, if "own_window = true," Conky can no longer be swallowed and forced to pretend like it's part of the root window, at least in FVWM, and again despite experimenting with everything I can think of.

Previously, under version 1.9, I did have "own_window yes" and had FVWM swallow it into a "button" and it acted like part of the desktop. Unfortunately, reverting back to 1.9 is the only way I have found to restore this functionality.

[ahmogit]

Adding to frankspace's issues with 1.10 under FVWM: * The following comment line in conkyrc is treated as a syntax error:

          # $Id: .conkyrc,v 3.14 2014/10/25 18:15:29 xxx Exp $

  The error reported is: 

       Syntax error (/home/XXX/.conkyrc:2: unexpected symbol near '#') while reading config file. 
       Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.

* The app name advertised to X was evidently changed from "Conky" to
  "conky", thus hosing FVWM style settings that had expected the case-sensitive
  name to apply. Not implying this is a bug, probably intentional, just pointing 
  it out in case others may benefit from knowing about it.

[lasers]

3 years 1 month passed. Can you determine if you're still having this problem today on 1.10.8 or 1.10.9_pre? The older versions are not trustworthy. Thank you.

[lasers]

Can you try the current master? Thanks.

git clone https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
cd conky
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4  # 4 cores to run in parallel
src/conky -c ~/conky.conf # <-- your config goes here

[lasers]

Hi all. I am checking up on this issue so I'm on fvwm right now. I find that there is no root-tail on Arch Linux repositories so I can't install this one. The program may be obsolete too.

If I understand you correctly, I don't have this problem right now. I made screenshots too. I didn't touch anything other than own_window (bool) and own_window_type (normal/desktop) with default config.

This issue may be obsolete too after 3 years 2 months.

One month later and no response. I think we're done here.

Sorry about the issue and thanks for the report. Keep them coming.